Official I Am Legend Thread

[A Dark Knight]

Spoiler

In the script, the dog gets infected in a fight with some vampire dogs. Neville and Sam (his dog) fend off their attackers but Sam succumbs to her infection. She turns into a vampire dog, but Neville lets her loose in the wild instead of killing her. At the end of the movie, Neville goes back to where he left her, finds her, and is able to cure her so that she is back to normal.

THANK YOU! t:

 

[Rezzo]

Spoiler

In the script, the dog gets infected in a fight with some vampire dogs. Neville and Sam (his dog) fend off their attackers but Sam succumbs to her infection. She turns into a vampire dog, but Neville lets her loose in the wild instead of killing her. At the end of the movie, Neville goes back to where he left her, finds her, and is able to cure her so that she is back to normal.

I must admit I actually got a bit nervous about what will happen to the dog after watching the new trailer, so I hope it indeed does end like that.

 

[OobeDoobBenubi]

Spoiler

In the script, the dog gets infected in a fight with some vampire dogs. Neville and Sam (his dog) fend off their attackers but Sam succumbs to her infection. She turns into a vampire dog, but Neville lets her loose in the wild instead of killing her. At the end of the movie, Neville goes back to where he left her, finds her, and is able to cure her so that she is back to normal.

Now that sounds like a nice ending but damn if a sequel happens that will ruin it

 

[ToddIsDead]

Do we know yet if in the movie he is successful with the cure ? My guess is no if the Director wants a sequel.

Spoiler

He is able to cure his dog, but I don't remember if he's able to cure human hosts. It's been a while since I read the script.

As for the sequel comment, I can answer that, but it'll spoil the last third of the movie. Click at your own risk, but be warned that this is major spoilage.

Spoiler

In the third act of the movie, two survivors, Anna and Ethan, answer Neville's radio broadcast and meet up with him. Anna has heard of a military installation up in the mountains where supposedly there is a large group of immune humans who are holding up and have created some kind of community. I say supposedly because she doesn't know if any of these people are still alive. Anyway, this comes into play later.

Throughout the movie, Neville captures and performs tests on various infected things, both human and animal, to try to find a cure. He does this by basically going into buildings where the vampires are nesting and he sets up snares and other traps to capture them. On one of these trips, he takes a female vampire from a nest. This female is the mate of the vampire that is referred to in the script as ALPHA. He's basically the analogue to Ben Cortman in the movie. He's the alpha male of the vampires.

Towards the end of the movie, the vampires somehow follow Neville on his way home one day (they previously did not know where he lived). When they learn of Neville's location, ALPHA leads thousands of vampires to Neville's home in hopes of recapturing his mate. They proceed to completely destroy Neville's home, his equipment, all of his research, and any information that he may have had that would have lead to a cure.

The protagonists make it out of the situation but they're left without any sort of home. Because they now have nothing to lose, they decide to depart from Manhattan in hopes of finding the military base where there are supposedly more survivors. My guess is that the sequel that Mark Protosevich pitched to WB is about Neville, Anna, and Ethan's (and Sam's) journey to find more survivors.

 

[OobeDoobBenubi]

[BLACKOUT]So if there is a sequel & Sam gets infected again Nevelle wouldnt be able to cure her again. Unless they come up with another excuse[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Valorman]

The team of the animated graphic novel "Broken Saints" have been hired to do a bunch of short prolouge clips for the movie.

you can see the first here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZ4o7tick0&eurl=http://brokensaints.com/blog/

more information here: http://brokensaints.com/blog/

Bumping, seemed like everyone missed this.

 

[ToddIsDead]

It's been posted. Any idea when the next one comes out? The first was amazing.

 

[OobeDoobBenubi]

It seems like everyone is worried about the dog & if he does really cures the dog at the end then I demand that Will Smith & the dog gets the best on screen team award at the MTV Movie Awards t:

 

[AhabTheArab]

in i am legend... will smith is gonna kill more dogs than michael vick. curing is out of the question.

 

[Jick]

It seems like everyone is worried about the dog & if he does really cure the dog at the end then I demand that Will Smith & the dog gets the best on screen team award at the MTV Movie Awards t:

lol...I could tell.
and bring Jimmy Fallon back!

 

[hammerhedd11]

Wow...this looks amazing.

 

[A Dark Knight]

I must admit I actually got a bit nervous about what will happen to the dog after watching the new trailer, so I hope it indeed does end like that.

Me too t: This movie looks awesome.

 

[ViolentMike]

Will Smith needs a new hobby.

 

[TNC9852002]

Will Smith is in ridiculous shape,..yet again!

-TNC

 

[Dodger]

The teaser and the trailers are great, this is going to be a great movie, I love these kind's of films, but I have one question and if anybody could answer it I would be greatful, I have not read the book so can anybody tell me what happens to his dog? I have two of my own and don't really like watching bad things happen to dogs on film so if something does please let me know, thanks.

Big book Spoiler

Spoiler

In the book, does not come into later on the book. at first the dog is reluctant to be taken in by him. He does after a while but the dog dies due to an injury. It's very sad moment in the book.

Spoiler

In the script, the dog gets infected in a fight with some vampire dogs. Neville and Sam (his dog) fend off their attackers but Sam succumbs to her infection. She turns into a vampire dog, but Neville lets her loose in the wild instead of killing her. At the end of the movie, Neville goes back to where he left her, finds her, and is able to cure her so that she is back to normal.

Spoiler

He is able to cure his dog, but I don't remember if he's able to cure human hosts. It's been a while since I read the script.

As for the sequel comment, I can answer that, but it'll spoil the last third of the movie. Click at your own risk, but be warned that this is major spoilage.

Spoiler

In the third act of the movie, two survivors, Anna and Ethan, answer Neville's radio broadcast and meet up with him. Anna has heard of a military installation up in the mountains where supposedly there is a large group of immune humans who are holding up and have created some kind of community. I say supposedly because she doesn't know if any of these people are still alive. Anyway, this comes into play later.

Throughout the movie, Neville captures and performs tests on various infected things, both human and animal, to try to find a cure. He does this by basically going into buildings where the vampires are nesting and he sets up snares and other traps to capture them. On one of these trips, he takes a female vampire from a nest. This female is the mate of the vampire that is referred to in the script as ALPHA. He's basically the analogue to Ben Cortman in the movie. He's the alpha male of the vampires.

Towards the end of the movie, the vampires somehow follow Neville on his way home one day (they previously did not know where he lived). When they learn of Neville's location, ALPHA leads thousands of vampires to Neville's home in hopes of recapturing his mate. They proceed to completely destroy Neville's home, his equipment, all of his research, and any information that he may have had that would have lead to a cure.

The protagonists make it out of the situation but they're left without any sort of home. Because they now have nothing to lose, they decide to depart from Manhattan in hopes of finding the military base where there are supposedly more survivors. My guess is that the sequel that Mark Protosevich pitched to WB is about Neville, Anna, and Ethan's (and Sam's) journey to find more survivors.

OH MY GOD! No no no no no....what are you serious. For the love of god I hope you are wrong dude. Because that is a complete bastardization of the book. I was ok with some of the change they made but after reading this....oh man.

I will have to wait and see, I guess.

 

[A Dark Knight]

Will Smith is in ridiculous shape,..yet again!

-TNC

He sure is, I can't believe how in shape he gets for his movies, just amazing.

Hi dodger, so it looks like the book and the movie in regards to the dog are very different, I am going to hope that they go with what happens in the movie script and not the book, but just in regards to the dog, thanks for the info.

 

[dark_b]

He sure is, I can't believe how in shape he gets for his movies, just amazing.

Hi dodger, so it looks like the book and the movie in regards to the dog are very different, I am going to hope that they go with what happens in the movie script and not the book, but just in regards to the dog, thanks for the info.

he has tons of money. he pays peopel to make ihim food and he pays people to train him.
he does a lot but its a lot easier that way.

 

[A Dark Knight]

he has tons of money. he pays peopel to make ihim food and he pays people to train him.
he does a lot but its a lot easier that way.

I agree, that would make it a lot easier, I would love to have someone cook all my food for me, plus all the time he gets to train, oh and I would take having lot's of money as well t:

 

[terry78]

People hate the death of pets. It's like killing kids in movies. It's taboo.

 

[Space Moose]

People hate the death of pets. It's like killing kids in movies. It's taboo.

It's because of the innocence. I had to do some big-ass essay on it once. It was about taboos in films from the 30's to 60's then from 60's upwards. It seems the most taboo thing is to kill a child or animal due to the innosence they represent.

 

[terry78]

Meanwhile killing anyone over 13 is perfectly fine. Killing teenage chicks has been a staple of horror for decades and no one bats an eye.

 

[Space Moose]

Meanwhile killing anyone over 13 is perfectly fine. Killing teenage chicks has been a staple of horror for decades and no one bats an eye.

Exactly. Or raping and killing and wearing the victims face as a mask or sniffing cocaine while killing and raping. And not always in that order.

 

[Marvolo]

I am an animal lover, especially dogs, so the idea that he is able to cure Sam is a major thumbs-up in my book. I understand changes are not looked well upon, but this is definitely one that has made me happy. When I watched the trailer, and saw the part with him picking up Sam I wanted to cry, because Sam is his only real companion. Sam loves him and is loyal to him no matter what, and the idea that he loses his companion just makes me want to cry. Can you imagine what it would be like losing your best friend and companion and being left completely alone with all these vampires after you? I hope that this change is kept in the movie.

 

[terry78]

Or have you dog turned into a vampire and chasing your ass.

 

[A Dark Knight]

I am an animal lover, especially dogs, so the idea that he is able to cure Sam is a major thumbs-up in my book. I understand changes are not looked well upon, but this is definitely one that has made me happy. When I watched the trailer, and saw the part with him picking up Sam I wanted to cry, because Sam is his only real companion. Sam loves him and is loyal to him no matter what, and the idea that he loses his companion just makes me want to cry. Can you imagine what it would be like losing your best friend and companion and being left completely alone with all these vampires after you? I hope that this change is kept in the movie.

I agree, good post