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Warner Bros. began developing I Am Legend in 1994 and various actors and directors were attached to the project, though production was delayed due to budgetary concerns related to the script. Production began in 2006 in New York City, filming mainly on location in the city, including a $5 million scene [6] [7] at the Brooklyn Bridge.
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
The film differs from the novel (and the previous film) in several ways. [5] [6] In the novel, humanity is destroyed by a bacterial plague spread by bats and mosquitoes, which turns the population into vampire-like creatures; whereas, in this film version, biological warfare is the cause of the plague that kills most of the population by asphyxiation and turns most of the rest into nocturnal ...
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.
Legend is a 1985 American epic dark fantasy adventure film directed by Ridley Scott, written by William Hjortsberg, and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert and Annabelle Lanyon.
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
Francis Lawrence (born March 26, 1971) [1] is an American filmmaker and producer. After establishing himself as a director of music videos and commercials, Lawrence made his feature-length directorial debut with the superhero thriller Constantine (2005) and has since directed the post-apocalyptic horror film I Am Legend (2007), the romantic drama Water for Elephants (2011), four of the five ...
Although referred to as "the first modern vampire novel", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its original cinematic adaptation, The Last Man on Earth (1964), upon his seminal film Night of the ...