Will Smith pays loving tribute to I Am Legend canine with poignant online video montage as lovers say: ‘I’ve in no way cried so much!’

Will Smith paid a sweet tribute to the iconic pet from 2007 film I am Legend this week.

Marking Nationwide Pet Working day, the Oscar profitable actor, 55, shared a online video of German Shepherd Abbey – who played the faithful Sam in the strike film – captioned: ‘The goodness female.’

The video confirmed behind-the-scenes footage of the pair filming I Am Legend – with Abbey affectionately cuddling Smith ahead of they shot large-octane action scenes.

The Francis Lawrence-directed film centered on the story of the scientist and previous human survivor of a plague.

In the movie, Will’s character (Dr Robert Neville) seeks to reverse the results of the virus by utilizing his very own immune blood.

The film opens with Smith hunting deer in the streets with Sam, and performs in his improvised laboratory to uncover a remedy for the virus that wrecked New York Town, and maybe the globe. 

Neville’s beloved puppy and only companion Sam fulfills a tragic conclusion when she is infected by Alpha Male Darkseeker’s puppies while defending him – top to a tearful Neville resorting to suffocating her to cease her killing him.

Supporters inundated the post with comments on Sam, with 1 crafting: ‘The very last time I cried at a film was when Samantha died.’

An additional wrote: ‘The instances I have cried looking at this movie!’ even though a third typed: ‘when sam died i cried so a great deal.’

Other folks wrote: ‘Favourite film and pet dog Sam’ and ‘Her dying was one the worst areas of the movie…I cried so challenging.’

In actual lifetime Abbey has lived a extended and balanced lifestyle, with the I Am Legend formal social media confirming she turned 16 in 2022. 

Previous year the sequel to I Am Legend was confirmed with Smith established to star in the film along with Michael B. Jordan.

Producer Akiva Goldsman disclosed that do the job has begun on the next movie to the sci-fi/horror blockbuster.

The adhere to-up dystopian picture would see The New Prince Of Bel Air star Will return to his purpose as Robert Neville, doing work to remedy a zombie apocalypse in New York. 

Speaking to Deadline, Hollywood producer Goldsman defined that the highly-anticipated 2nd movie will ‘trace back to the authentic Matheson book’ and return to the New York put up-apocalyptic scene a ‘few decades later than the first’.

Akiva told the publication: ‘We’re starting with two jobs that are fun and quite considerably Warners the sequel to I Am Legend, with Will and Michael B. Jordan, and the sequel to Constantine with Keanu Reeves that Francis Lawrence is heading to direct.’

It is not apparent on what position Michael B. Jordan will enjoy in the 2nd movie, as Goldsman, who has a creation enterprise known as Weed Street Photographs at Warner Bros, was maintaining that element of the storyline below wraps.

He defined of the connection concerning I Am Legend 2 and The Final Of Us, which he stated he is ‘obsessed with’.

‘I’m obsessed with The Last Of Us, the place we see the globe just article-apocalypse but after a 20-30-yr lapse. You see how the earth reclaims the planet, and there is anything stunning in the dilemma of, as gentleman measures away from becoming the major tenant, what occurs? That will be in particular visual in New York.

‘I don’t know if they’re going to climb up to the empire state developing, but the opportunities are infinite. We trace back again to the original Matheson ebook, and the alternate ending as opposed to the introduced ending in the primary movie.’