This was actually the third time it had been made into a movie. I am legend is based on the book i am legend by richard matheson. I have gone through a similar question to mine, but in that question they are talking about the ending of the book while my friend is sure that he had watched the movie where. The 2007 version of i am legend directed by francis lawrence and starring will smith qualifies as an eccentric version of third times the charm appeal to the gods of fate. Will smith could return for an i am legend sequel cinemablend. Feb 17, 2012 assuming the second installment of i am legend is not simply a prequelindisguise, there are two ways for a smith starring sequel to make sense sort of robert neville is featured heavily in flashbacks, in a manner similar to how i am legend chronicles the chaotic quarantine of manhattan via its protagonists memories. The symbol of vampires in i am legend from litcharts the. Set in 1977, the omega man depicts the story of robert neville the same character used in both the original book and i am legend living in a. I am legend read online free from your pc or mobile. Oddly enough though, none of the three films is really a satisfying adaptation of the text, as each differs greatly from the source material. Dec 22, 2007 what shoes does will smith wear in i am legend. Dec, 2007 the opening scenes of i am legend have special effects so good that they just about compensate for some later special effects that are dicey.
Hes virtually alone in this scifi thriller, with a dog albeit a talented one as his only foil. Will smith is the last man on earth in i am legend. But when it comes down to it, is the book really better than the movie. The sites critical consensus reads, i am legend overcomes questionable special effects and succeeds largely on the strength of will smith s mesmerizing performance. After pickpocketing an elderly man smith runs to the street in hopes to find a getaway route, but is instead is trapped. The book has inspired at least two other films, the last man on earth starring vincent price and the omega man starring charlton heston. Will smith in i am legend r ichard mathesons scifi novel about the last man left alive on earth has been filmed twice, most memorably as the omega man with charlton heston in 1971. This is probably going to be very unpopular considering the movie remake and reboot hate, also i d like to note that i loved the i am legend will smith movie. I am legend richard matheson paperback book to movie will smith. Will smith stated that i robot had more special effects than any film he has made to date, including independance day.
Immune, neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of new york city and perhaps the world. I was delighted that i could find a nonwill smith cover for this book. Its been more than a decade since i am legend premiered in theaters and it looks like that was the last time smith will ever be seen in the role. Will smith shares the perfect i am legend meme for.
With will smith, alice braga, charlie tahan, salli richardsonwhitfield. Despite the book s popularity in hollywood, neither those first two adaptations nor this most recent one have been completely faithful to mathesons novel. Online your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. I dont think theres a single person in the world who doesnt know who will smith is or. But if you have only seen that will smith movie that went 180 degrees on the books message, the soulcrushing impact of. Last week my husband and i went to the movies to see will smith in i am legend. However, during the early promo shots will smith wore one jacket from belstaff and in the film he wore a different jacket. Will smith has 166 books on goodreads with 1479 ratings. We see manhattan three years after a deadly virus has killed every healthy human on the island, except one. Smith plays somebody with every reason to believe that he really is the last man on earth is. Directed by francis lawrence and starring will smith as robert neville, this film uses both mathesons novel and the 1971. Will smith on i am legend s genre concepts, technology, and more. Richard mathesons i am legend is a masterpiece of horror that has spawned three film adaptations, none of which have quite captured the essence of what makes this book.
The road is a great movie, and very faithful to the book, despite the incredibly depressing, bleak, and hopeless atmosphere and ending. Will smith talks about preparing for i am legend youtube. Will smith stars in a scifi thriller from the director of constantinei am legend. We call it global willing, says smith of his travel itinerary to warm up the globe for his next film, i am legend, in which he plays the only survivor of a manmade plague that has wiped out humanity. Nov 29, 2007 will smith plots his strategy for world domination from the head of the kingly wooden dining table in his sweeping calabasas, calif. Will smith s robert neville becomes a christlike savior legend rather than the monstrosity feared by mathesons intelligent vampires. Directed by francis lawrence and starring will smith as robert neville, this film uses both mathesons novel and the 1971 omega man film as its sources. Dr robert neville will smith is desperately trying to develop a serum, an antidote to a mutated killer virus that has destroyed most of the worlds human population. Will smith has the exact look i promote on this site. I am legend is the 2007 science fiction action film directed by francis lawrence and stars will smith as robert neville, a us army doctor who struggles to find a cure to the virus that has affected nearly the entire population of the world. I am legend is a dystopian story very loosely based upon a book of the same name.
Victorinox swiss army st 4000 chrono will smith i am. When one hears the title i am legend being mentioned, they usually associate it with will smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story robert neville. Dec 14, 2007 will smith has a leading lady of a fourlegged kind in i am legend. Dec 28, 2007 in i am legend what is the stuff sprayed on the steps. This book was how a sic individual would handle thinking that he was the last survivor on earth. Films like children of men, the host, the descent and the bevy of clever monster movies on the horizon are taking a notoriously. Well he looks better than ever for his newest role as robert neville in i am legend.
The streets are overgrown with weeds, cars are abandoned, the infrastructure is beginning to collapse. The opening scenes of i am legend have special effects so good that they just about compensate for some later special effects that are dicey. In the process, he empowers himself and gives himself a new purpose in life. Will smith leaned down substantially to play his role as scientist who is the only uninfected human left on earth. The character has the same name in both the book and the movie. In fact, the first two cinematic adaptations of richard mathesons sinister examination of what being the last man on earth in a postapocalyptic world of vampire. The book of eli includes additional scenes a lost tale. Nov 25, 2015 will smith counts i am legend as one of the films he is most proud of, he told the hollywood reporter s scott feinberg during an awards chatter podcast. There are stretches when he literally talks to himself, and hes able to hold the audiences gaze throughout. Why will smith considers i am legend one of his greatest.
I am legends will smith to toss his little daughter to the. Keep reading to find out all of wills weight loss secrets. I am legend is a 2007 american postapocalyptic thriller film based on the 1954 novel of the same name by richard matheson. Death as a gift, isolation, sacrificing the few for the many and shelter. Smith by leon garfield meet your next favorite book.
I am legend 2007 alternate ending as discussed by first showing and film, the alternate ending for i am legend is a better representation of the source material. Finally, the i am legend script is here for all you fans of the will smith postapocalyptic movie. Although i really appreciate good effects, i would have preferred some more of will smith s entertaining acting, something he was permitted to deliver in i am legend. It is the third film adaptation of richard mathesons novel i am legend 1954, following the last man on earth 1964 and the omega man 1971. Smith and abbey the german shepherd bonded on set, but first, will had to court the canine to win her affection. The movie really draws you in and effects you at a deep emotional level. In i am legend, will smith survived alone for years. After a manmade plague transforms manhattans population and possibly that of the whole world into bloodthirsty mutants, military scientist doctor robert neville will smith, immune to both the airborne strains and contact strains of the virus, struggles to find a cure and to locate any other survivors that may exist. Smith by leon garfield is and exciting novel about a young man named smith. A wellmade horrorscifi flick is often, sadly, the exception. I am legend richard matheson paperback book to movie will. I am legends biggest change from the book broke the movie.
After all, the film ends with will smith, the movies biggest star, blowing himself up with a bunch of zombievampires. Richard mathesons i am legend has been made into several movies, including the recent will smith movie, and the last man on earth, starring vincent price. I am legend is a 1954 postapocalyptic horror novel by american writer richard matheson that. Richard mathesons 1954 novel i am legend has been adapted into films before, most notably 1971s the omega man, with charlton heston. Finally, in 2007, will smith fronted i am legend, the most critically and commercially successful adaptation of mathesons book yet. I am legend script transcript from the screenplay andor. If anyone had any doubts left that will smith could carry a movie, i am legend will banish them forever. Will smith slims down for new role in the movie i am legend.
Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and tv shows. Book of elii am legend by albert hughes, francis lawrence. This puppy is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of the movie to get the dialogue. Its entirely possible the story gets the reboot treatment once more but it likely wont be with smith or lawrence involved. Differences between i am legend book vs movie page 1.
I am legend deviates considerably from the original novel, especially in the ending which has now become filled with a conservative hope for the survival of humanity without the evolution indicated by matheson. I am legend 2007 robert neville will smith is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and manmade. I am legend 2007 is an american postapocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by francis lawrence and starring will smith. Its the year 2012, in the ruins of new york city, robert neville will smith, army virologist, struggles to survive hiding and fending off the infected survivors of a terrible virus and trying to discover a cure for. Will has always taken care of his body, and takes pride in the way her looks. I am legend 2007 the basics hopefully all of you know the basic story behind i am legend. I am legend mass market paperback october 30, 2007.
The canine star of i am legend how the german shepherd playing will smith s best friend snagged the role. Will smith has the perfect i am legend meme for the coronavirus quarantine and he just shared it on instagram. In the book they are basically vampires, he uses mirrors, crosses, garlic, stakes and the like to ward them off. But if you have only seen that will smith movie that went 180 degrees on the books message, the soulcrushing. But if you have only seen that will smith movie that went 180 degrees on the books message, the soulcrushing impact of these words will be lost on you. I have never seen the searchers, so i went and read the story.
Will smith, in the movie i am legend, wears two watches. Entire books have been written about what, exactly, the vampires in i am legend symbolize. In the movie i am legend, will smith is hitting golf balls off the deck of a ship. See more ideas about i am legend, i movie and will smith. I am legend the first adaptation is the movies last man on earth in 1964, and the second is the movie the omega man in 1971. In 2007, a third adaptation of the novel was produced, this time titled i am legend.
Another important theme of i am legend is the powerboth benevolent and maliciousof science. After a biological war, robert neville is the last healthy human living on earth, but he is not alone. However, what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author richard matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. When will smith s character goes into his house at night he sprays a bottle of something all over the steps, then later when he is setting his trap to capture a night seeker, he sprays it on his jacket. Richard mathesons i am legend is a masterpiece of horror that has spawned. Perhaps the most notable addition is that of will smiths own 6yearold daughter, willow. Theres something about the way the story is told that, while the scenario is highly fantastical, the character is almost painfully relatable. The most clearly visible is the swiss army st 4000 24077 watch from victorinox. The version of i am legend which i watched ended with will smith alive, but my friend claims that he had watched the same movie, in which he was killed by the zombies. The theme of science in i am legend from litcharts the.
Dec 12, 2007 cw11 morning news interview with will smith in i am legend. So, the speculation is that the new i am legend reboot script is an altered version of the classic movie the searchers. Will smith jokes i am legend caused coronavirus misinformation. This man, our protagonist in both the book and film, is robert neville.
Will smith on i am legends genre concepts, technology. I had received the book for christmas and tried to get at. Feb 17, 2012 watching the end of i am legend you question the possibility of a sequel. I am legend dystopian science fiction movie description. Smith is a 12yearold pickpocket set in a victorian london esque town. Smith grapples with the isolation of being the last healthy man on earth, three years after a deadly virus meant to cure cancer has.
Its gripping and intense and i think, perhaps, will smith s greatest performance. He dropped twenty pounds for the film i am legend which hit theaters december 2007. Will smiths most popular book is just the two of us. Directed by francis lawrence, the film stars will smith as us army virologist robert neville. Differences between i am legend book vs movie page 2. Actor salaries will smith posted by tubucoco on 83010 at 11. Dec 14, 2007 in spite of its thirdact collapse into obviousness and sentimentality, i am legend in which mr.
As many people know, this story has been adapted into 3 or 4 movies over the years. Adapted from acclaimed author richard mathesons influential novelette of the same name, constantine director francis lawrences i am legend. Is there an i am legend movie that actually preserves the. Based on a novel by richard matheson, this end of the world epic was originally intended for arnold. I am legend is based on a 1954 richard matheson scifi novel of the same name. Discussion of themes and motifs in richard mathesons i am legend. Its a 1950s era book when the zombies as we know them today didnt even exist. The beloved star channeled his role in the image that compares what he did during.
Will smith the sole human survivor in new york city in. This adaptation also deviates significantly from the novel. I am legend internet movie firearms database guns in. Billy animated short covering carnegies back story i am legend includes 4 awesome animated comics. The first time was in 1964 with the last man on earth featuring vincent price, and then in 1971 with the omega man with charlton heston. Some new acting talent has been announced for will smiths upcoming vampire movie, i am legend. 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 in this postapocalyptic action thriller. In the movie, smith plays a virologist in a world where most of humanity has been wiped out by a virus that turns people into bloodthirsty. The deck is 28m above the water, and smith hits a golf ball off the deck with a velocity of. I am legend 2 with will smith is officially moving forward. Dec 14, 2007 its i am legend, directed by francis lawrence, the viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good sciencefiction film, constantine, and written by akiva goldsman, based on mark protosevichs script for a 1999 i am legend project that was to be directed by ridley scott and starring arnold schwarzenegger. Throughout the book, robert neville studies the science of vampirism. I am legend will smith and alice braga overview in i am legend, will smith joins the ranks of vincent price in 1964s the last man on earth and charlton heston in 1971s omega man as the star of an adaptation of richard mathesons 1954 novel of the same name.
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