Hancock Sequel Moving Forward
Tue, August 25, 2009 
What originally began as Will Smith fulfilling a long time desire to play a superhero (working off a decade old script deemed unfilmable by the industry) looks to be a full fledged franchise for Sony now. That's right, folks. A sequel to Hancock appears to be in our future.
THR reveals the studio has commissioned screenwriters Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara to torpedo ideas with Smith and director Peter Berg. In fact, Berg first revealed plans were underway last week to Sci-Fi Wire with the intention to "elaborate on the film's mythology." One only assumes that means we won't see the return of Eddie Marsan's Lex Luthor/Captain Hook hybrid villain.
Of course, does it matter that Hancock was a clutterfuck mess of a movie and blatantly mismarketed to the general public? Superman as a drunk asshole the film wasn't. People love Will Smith. He's without question the biggest movie-star in the world (hence the $630 million box-office).
So if he wants to revisit Hancock, there's no way in Hell Sony is going to say otherwise.
Reader Comments (2)
It matters to me; there's 12 bucks right here that Sony won't be getting.
Unless you make me see it.