Variety.com reports today that “I Am Legend” will have an official release around Asia later in the month, and though it has already been green lit in Hong Kong, it has been banned everywhere else in China. This ban is not just on the “I Am Legend” release, but will keep most American films from releasing in China to protect their local film market for the next three months.

Will Smith comments in Hong Kong, “We struggled very, very hard to try to get it to work out, but there are only a certain amount of foreign films that are allowed in.”

The film follows Robert Neville (Will Smith) a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague — The Infected — lurk in the shadows… watching Neville’s every move… waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered… and quickly running out of time.

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