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- Set on Cimarron Street in 1976 Gardena, California, after an apocalyptic war that ravages the land with weekly dust storms, the novel details the life of Robert Neville in the months and eventually years after the outbreak of a pandemic that has killed the rest of the human population and turned infected survivors into "vampires".
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Nov 27, 2022 · The original ending of Lawrence's "I Am Legend" veered a little closer to Matheson's downbeat conclusion, but there was a problem: Test audiences absolutely hated it.
I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic action thriller film [4] [5] directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich and starring Will Smith as US Army virologist Robert Neville.
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.
May 20, 2024 · The legend is officially coming back! I Am Legend 2, the sequel to the 2007 film, has been in the works since 2022. The movie will once again star Will Smith, who will also be producing and...
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Considering that the movie debuted more than 10 years before the SARS-CoV-2 virus began circulating the globe, it’s almost eerie how well the film showcases the intense loneliness — and mental health repercussions — of surviving a global pandemic during isolation. Neville, who appears to be the lone survivor in New York City, has one-way conversati...
The movie becomes more problematic when we look at its science, but not for the reasons you might think (the film fell under controversylast year when anti-vaxxers seized its fictional plot as an excuse to dismiss the real-life Covid-19 vaccine). Neville has spent the past few years working to cure the disease known as Krippin virus, which causes h...
It’s easy to dismiss these concerns over I Am Legend because it’s just a science fiction movie. But experts say people have turned to film and TV to make sense of our pandemicever since the first wave hit New York in the spring of 2020. “I'm consumed with this topic, and why wouldn't a theme from a movie or TV series also pique my interest?” Anthon...
Those images were chilling enough originally but take on an extra poignancy when revisited in a pandemic-era world, now that we've all gotten a glimpse of what an apocalypse might actually look like (albeit one without dodgy CGI mutants).
I Am Legend: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield. Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
