And now Lawrence, in conversation with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, has been chatting about why the follow-on movie never happened. “Warners was really, really, REALLY into coming up with something, and I just didn’t know how to do it,” he said. “I saw very quickly after the movie came out, and I went ‘people came to see the last man on earth. We’ve done the last man on earth, he died at the end of the movie, we can’t do it again’. But people weren’t in love with him as a character. It’s not Indiana Jones, like this kind of iconic character that you just want to see again and again and again.” That didn’t stop a sequel idea being kicked around, that would have seen Smith’s character cloned and brought back to life. The project petered out not that long afterwards. The original film, just to make you feel young, celebrated its tenth birthday last Christmas…
