Will Smith recently spoke with Collider (http://www.collider.com) and revealed that the next "I Am Legend" movie will, indeed, be a prequel contrary to some recent Internet speculation.

"We have a fantastic prequel idea…we’re still trying to work through a couple of bumps in the story. It’s essentially the fall of the last city – the last stand of Manhattan. The movie would be…within the body of the movie D.C. and then Manhattan would fall as the last city. It’s a really cool idea trying to figure it out…there’s a reason why we have to take a small band and we have to get into D.C. So we have to make our way from New York to D.C. and then back to New York."

For more on what Smith had to say, click on this link.