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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.
Film adaptations of I Am Legend, a 1954 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror novel written by Richard Matheson about the catastrophic aftermath of a global vampirism pandemic, eventually inspiring many more zombie apocalypse stories such as the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times.
An immune survivor of a biological/nuclear war battles plague-altered quasi-vampires bent on erasing all vestiges of science and technology. The second film version of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend: Novel 1971 War Love in the Ruins: Walker Percy: Novel 1971 War The Overman Culture: Edmund Cooper: Television 1971 Eco Timeslip
An edited version of the film was released in North America under the title Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters. Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire: 2003 United States: Scott Jeralds: Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe: A direct-to-video animated horror-comedy film. The Twins Effect (千機變) 2003 Hong Kong: Dante Lam, Donnie Yen
I Am Legend may refer to: I Am Legend, a 1954 novel by Richard Matheson I Am Legend, the 2007 film based on the 1954 novel, starring Will Smith and Alice Braga "I Am Legend" (song), on White Zombie's 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One; I Am Legend, a 2010 South Korean drama, starring Kim Jung-eun and Lee Joon-hyuk
[16] [page needed] In 1995, Warner Bros. began developing the film project, having owned the rights to Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend since 1970 [17] and having already made the 1971 adaptation The Omega Man. Mark Protosevich was hired to write the script after the studio was impressed with his spec script of The Cell.
Monster Literature often presents its characters as lonely and helpless beings. In I Am Legend, Robert Neville is the last human on Earth, or so he believes. His only company is the horde of vampires that linger around his house wanting to suck his blood and drain the human qualities from him. Neville suffers from the resonating silence that ...