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I Am Legend

AAP said:
How did the book end?
I read it like 15 years ago, but I think it ends with them driving.
They hear something on the radio and they think there are other survivors in some other city, like Pittsburgh or something, so they start driving to that city.
 
Spartacus said:
I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in Los Angeles.



The book takes place in the then-future of 1976-1979. The novel opens with the monotony and horror of the daily life of the protagonist, Robert Neville. Neville is apparently the only survivor of an apocalypse caused by a pandemic of a bacterium, the symptoms of which are very similar to vampirism. Every day he makes repairs to his house, boarding up windows, stringing and hanging garlic, disposing of vampires' corpses on his lawn and going out to gather any additional supplies needed for hunting and killing more vampires.

Neville's psychological disposition is a significant element in the novel, and his struggles with despair imbue the character with intensity and gravitas. The author emphasizes that he is an ordinary, flawed man trying to deal with an extraordinary catastrophe. It also explores the loneliness of being by himself, excitement and hope of finding others, and disappointment over still finding himself alone.

Much of the story is devoted to Neville's struggles to understand the plague that has infected everyone around him, and the novel details the progress of his discoveries. Instead of asking the reader to accept a supernatural explanation for vampire phenomena, the author strives to offer scientific basis for such symptoms as aversion to garlic, craving of fresh blood, and resistance to bullets but vulnerability to stakes and sunlight. The aversion to mirrors and crosses is classified as psychological.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend


Other adaptations
2.1 The Last Man on Earth
2.2 The Omega Man
2.3 I Am Legend
2.4 I Am Omega


Holy cow. I never knew Omega Man and I am Legend were both based on the same novel.
 
RottenWillow said:
surely you know this is a remake of the Vincent Price flick of the same name, I Am Legend. Similar theme, but no relation to Omega Man.

Actually according to wiki, the remake is goin more in the direction of Omega Man.

Goldsman rewrote the screenplay to be closer to the second I Am Legend film adaptation, The Omega Man, of which he was a major fan.[4] The rewrite was also done to distance the film from the numerous zombie films inspired by the novel.[5] In April 2006, Will Smith signed back onto the project, with production to begin in 2007 in New York.[22] A forty-page scene-by-scene outline of the film was developed within the next month. When delays occurred on Smith's film Hancock, it was proposed to switch the actor's films. This meant filming would have to begin in sixteen weeks: production was greenlit, using Goldsman's script and the outline.[20] Elements from Protosevich's script were introduced, while the crew consulted with experts on infectious diseases and solitary confinement.[4] Rewrites continued throughout filming, because of Smith's improvisational skills and Lawrence's preference to keep various scenes silent.[20]
 
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redguru said:
Actually according to wiki, the remake is goin more in the direction of Omega Man.

Goldsman rewrote the screenplay to be closer to the second I Am Legend film adaptation, The Omega Man, of which he was a major fan.[4] The rewrite was also done to distance the film from the numerous zombie films inspired by the novel.[5] In April 2006, Will Smith signed back onto the project, with production to begin in 2007 in New York.[22] A forty-page scene-by-scene outline of the film was developed within the next month. When delays occurred on Smith's film Hancock, it was proposed to switch the actor's films. This meant filming would have to begin in sixteen weeks: production was greenlit, using Goldsman's script and the outline.[20] Elements from Protosevich's script were introduced, while the crew consulted with experts on infectious diseases and solitary confinement.[4] Rewrites continued throughout filming, because of Smith's improvisational skills and Lawrence's preference to keep various scenes silent.[20]

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