Hollywood Suckfest on Horizon

I just ran across the fact that I Am Legend is being made into a movie... staring Will Smith. Is there any universe in which this could not suck in a bad way? I mean WILL SMITH? The man has one acting mode that he can or is allowed to do (from my perspective it amounts to the same thing): plucky comic relief turned lead. I have never seen a movie with him in it that he wasn't an annoying and jarring presence. The only tolerable movie with him in it was Men in Black, which was silly to start with.

The way I ran across this fact was seeing a production still in an article about an Italian jacket manufacturer in the LA Times. Nice look, too bad it will be terrible.