Since Muccino was busy editing The Pursuit of Happyness starring Smith, which Muccino had directed, Smith switched projects to film I Am Legend first for its December 2007 release, and then film Tonight, He Comes afterward. Italian director Gabriele Muccino filled Mostow's vacancy in May 2006. Mostow eventually departed from the project due to creative differences. The actor had also set up a pay or play contract to film I Am Legend under Warner Bros. Smith's salary in his pay or play contract for the film was $20 million and 20 percent of the film's gross. In November 2005, Mostow and Smith committed to Tonight, He Comes, with production slated to begin in Los Angeles in summer 2006. Marsan said, 'I went from being in a car with Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky to blowing up a bank in downtown LA.' Having previously filmed the low-budget Happy-Go-Lucky, Marsan found the transition to the big-budget Hancock to be a shock. Eddie Marsan as Red Parker, a bank robber who later becomes Hancock's arch-nemesis.I like being the tour guide, the one who tethers whatever absurdity might be in a film and helps make that tangible to the audience.' Bateman said, 'My character sees life through rose-colored glasses so he doesn't understand how people can't see the positive side of Hancock.
Jason Bateman as Ray Embrey, a corporate public relations consultant whose life Hancock saves.
She knows who she is and what she is capable of.' But when people do that it usually means they are hiding some characteristic inside themselves that scares them. Theron described Mary, 'She makes this conscious decision to live in suburbia and be this soccer mom to her stepson and be the perfect wife-she lives in this bubble.
Charlize Theron as Mary Embrey, Ray's wife and Hancock's ex-wife who also has powers and abilities like him, but they are both becoming weak as they are close to each other. He doesn't remember what happened to him and there's no one to help him find the answers.' To give a realistic appearance of superhero flight, Smith was often suspended by wires 60 feet (18 m) above the ground and propelled at 40–50 miles per hour (64–80 km/h). Smith described the character, 'Hancock is not your average superhero. During his release, the duty nurse asked him for his 'John Hancock', which he adopted as his current alias. He is also an amnesiac his first memories are of waking up alone in a hospital in 1931. Hancock is invulnerable, immortal, possesses superhuman strength, reflexes and stamina, highly developed regeneration, and can fly at supersonic speeds. Will Smith as John Hancock, an alcoholic superhero. Let's look at what happened after Hancock was released and see what reasons led to Hancock 2 getting permanently pushed to the backburner. Related: Waterworld 2 Updates: Why A Sequel Never Happenedĭespite promising reports that Hancock 2 would be made, nothing has materialized. Hancock cautiously accepts Ray's offer to help him get back on track but as the two start their work and things seem to be turning around for Hancock, the truth about his past and why he is the way he is come to light, thus affecting his future in the process. PR man Ray (Bateman) sees there is potential to rehab Hancock, as well as his image, and turn him into a force for good. Why didn't Hancock 2 end up happening?ĭirected by Peter Berg and starring Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman, Hancock told the story of the John Hancock (Smith), a superhero with the potential for doing real good who preferred to self-sabotage with substance abuse and a general disdain for others. But while Iron Man and the rest of the MCU flourished, Hancock's future was murky, despite delivering key superhero story ingredients - smarmy hero, a complicated past, big action, unique powers, etc. - and the sequel never came to be. Just two months before, Iron Man premiered and effectively launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Is Hancock 2 happening with Will Smith? Hancockarrived in 2008, at a time when cinema, as we know it today, was just beginning to be shaped by the influence of superhero movies.
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