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Straight from director Francis Lawrence's own mouth comes his reasons for why he would want to go back before the events depicted in I Am Legend:

"I have my beliefs on what was interesting about the first story and what was not so interesting about the first story, and I think that to go back, there has to be a truly viable reason to go back into that world that I think interested everybody, so that's the real struggle," Lawrence said at the press junket for Kings, his upcoming NBC limited series (and as reported by Sci Fi Wire.) "The struggle is to find a story that brings us back in a way that's hopefully just as interesting as the first time around."

OK, so no more beating around the bush: will he or won't he direct the prequel? "Yeah, if we figure out the story, I'm absolutely involved in the prequel. ... We've had conversations. The three of us, Will and Akiva and I, have sat down and talked, and there's a writer that's working on it right now. So we came up with the bones of a story, and now we're waiting to see a script."