Here’s a story concept for Hancock 2 , picking up years after the first film.
Post-credits scene: In a lab somewhere, a scientist examines a piece of debris from Primus. It glows faintly. A whisper: “One thousand years… I’ll be back.” The screen cuts to black. film hancock 2
Hancock and Mary must work together again, but proximity begins to weaken them both. The solution? They can’t fight Primus together. But maybe they can un-pair each other deliberately — sacrificing their immortality to make each other fully human. Here’s a story concept for Hancock 2 ,
Hancock fights Primus and loses badly. Primus doesn’t kill him — instead, he touches Hancock’s chest and absorbs half his power . Hancock becomes mortal-adjacent: still strong, but he bleeds easily, can’t fly faster than a jet, and for the first time in 3,000 years — feels cold. A whisper: “One thousand years… I’ll be back
Still grappling with his immortality and the lost love of his life, a now-wiser Hancock must protect a world that fears him when a new god rises — one who claims to be the first of his kind, and who intends to finish what the ancient pairs started. Story Outline Opening: Los Angeles, present day. Hancock (Will Smith) still flies patrols, but he’s quieter now. He lives alone in a modest apartment, helping people in small ways: rescuing cats, stopping convenience store robberies, gently lowering a suicidal man from a ledge. The public loves him again, but he feels hollow. He visits Mary (Charlize Theron) in secret — not to rekindle, but to check she’s still alive. She has remarried, has a child. She looks at Hancock with ancient sadness. “We can’t be near each other,” she reminds him. “We burn.” He nods and flies away.
A series of worldwide catastrophes — a bridge folding like paper in Tokyo, a volcano erupting on command in Iceland, a tsunami frozen mid-wave off New Zealand. The culprit is a man calling himself Primus (played by, say, Lakeith Stanfield or Winston Duke). He appears on every screen: “I am the first angel. Before Hancock. Before Mary. Before your petty heroes. I created the pairs to protect humanity. But you betrayed us — so I am unpairing the world.”
In a storm-shattered ruin of the old Los Angeles Coliseum, Hancock — now mortal — fights Primus using only strategy and pain. Mary uses her fading powers to shield civilians. Hancock tricks Primus into absorbing too much power at once — overloading him the way a lightning rod can’t take infinite strikes. Primus screams, cracks apart, and explodes into harmless light, his essence scattering into the upper atmosphere to reform in a thousand years.