Official I Am Legend Thread

[Hunter Rider]

Yeah just wait til it gets infected and turns into a vampire. t:

Flying Dogst:

Dogs are always awesome.

There are exceptions

 

[Hunter Rider]

Yeah!
They should have a dog sex scene!
Has there ever been a dog sex scene?

Not that i know of but maybe if they ever make Lassie vs Benji a tale of Ruff sex

 

[Kent]

^ That pic actually gives me some hope for this movie for some reason... maybe it's the dog... maybe it's that Smith's character doesn't look overly "hip"... maybe...

 

[dark_b]

http://media.movies.ign.com/media/771/771901/img_4154105.html

since when is smith skinny again? something about this pic looks funny to me.

 

[Mr. Credible]

wow... i like the pic with the weird looking pale guy.

isn't this from the guy that did constantine? francis lawrence? if so, cool. i really liked what he did with that movie.

 

[Hunter Rider]

wow... i like the pic with the weird looking pale guy.

isn't this from the guy that did constantine? francis lawrence? if so, cool. i really liked what he did with that movie.

Yep he is directing

 

[Mr. Credible]

Yep he is directing

cool. for a first time feature film director (he used to do music videos, if i remember right) he did an amazing job. constantine was better than a lot of movies from a lot of established, practiced directors.

 

[Hunter Rider]

cool. for a first time feature film director (he used to do music videos, if i remember right) he did an amazing job. constantine was better than a lot of movies from a lot of established, practiced directors.

I agree,it wasn't to popular with the comic fans but as a film i thought it was very good with some great visuals

 

[Mr. Credible]

I agree,it wasn't to popular with the comic fans but as a film i thought it was very good with some great visuals

word.

easily one of my favorite comic book movies.

 

[Darth Elektra]

cool new pics.

 

[dpm07]

I agree,it wasn't to popular with the comic fans but as a film i thought it was very good with some great visuals

Very true. I'm looking forward to this movie. I'm a fan of the story itself, and Will Smith.

 

[Cinemaman]

since when is smith skinny again? something about this pic looks funny to me.

Can't see there anything wrong. It looks great, because I don't want to see again Smith as another action hero. I want to see the real look of the main character. Besides, if the whole city is gone and there is no normal food (because of the virus as I think), skinny Smith will look very realistic on screen.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Can't see there anything wrong. It looks great, because I don't want to see again Smith as another action hero. I want to see the real look of the main character. Besides, if the whole city is gone and there is no normal food (because of the virus as I think), skinny Smith will look very realistic on screen.

Very good point Cine,he shouldn't be all built up and buff

 

[Cinemaman]

^^^

Agreed.

 

[Bastila]

Very true. I'm looking forward to this movie. I'm a fan of the story itself, and Will Smith.

Same here, I read the book this month I really liked it in the end, I like the last part of the book more, so I can't wait to see what the film is like compared to the book.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Same here, I read the book this month I really liked it in the end, I like the last part of the book more, so I can't wait to see what the film is like compared to the book.

From what we know its not a whole lot like the book.

 

[Bastila]

From what we know its not a whole lot like the book.

Oh really, oh.....I liked some of the characters in it.

 

[hey yo its sean]

since when is smith skinny again?

He's not. Ran into him in the elevator at school, and he's still pretty yoked, just more slim and defined.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Very good point Cine,he shouldn't be all built up and buff

Thing is, by the end of the book, Neville was freaking jacked.

 

[green]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/m...ef=movies&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

A Variation on Vampire Lore That Won’t Die

Barry Wetcher/Warner Brothers Pictures
Will Smith plays the survivor of a deadly pandemic in “I Am Legend.” Directed by Francis Lawrence, it is the third movie based on Richard Matheson’s science fiction novel of the same name.


By LEWIS BEALE
Published: January 14, 2007
FROM the outside Robert Neville’s red brick home looks like all the other stately Greek revival town houses facing Washington Square Park. But the interior, actually a set inside a Brooklyn armory, is something else entirely. The kitchen is stacked top to bottom with what seems like several years’ worth of canned goods and packaged food, and all the windows have floor-to-ceiling retractable steel doors that can be locked down at a moment’s notice.

Robert Neville, after all, thinks he is the last man alive in a time when a biological plague has created a race of night-crawling human freaks who would like nothing better than to penetrate his sanctuary. As played by Will Smith, he is also one of the few noninfected characters in “I Am Legend,” a Warner Brothers production that has been shooting in New York for release in December.

Directed by Francis Lawrence (“Constantine&#8221 and co-written and co-produced by Akiva Goldsman (an Oscar winner for “A Beautiful Mind&#8221, “I Am Legend” is testimony to the unexpected durability of Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name. It is the third film based on a book whose original impulse was to one-up the screen vampires of an earlier era.

First published in 1953, the novel is a taut, realistic chiller about a postapocalyptic world in which germ warfare creates a biological plague that turns humans into bloodsuckers. The idea was born, said Mr. Matheson, now 80 and living in the Los Angeles area, “when I was a teenager and saw Bela Lugosi in ‘Dracula.’ ”

“I thought if the world was full of vampires, it would be more frightening than just one,” he continued. “And I explained vampires in biological terms.”

“I Am Legend” was almost immediately optioned for the movies (Hammer Films in Britain originally owned the rights), but it wasn’t until 1964 that Vincent Price appeared in “The Last Man on Earth,” a low-budget version shot in Italy. Then, in 1971, Warner released “The Omega Man,” a more expensive studio production, starring Charlton Heston, that made extensive use of Los Angeles’s deserted-looking downtown.

Both versions took certain liberties with Mr. Matheson’s original concept, largely sidestepping its startlingly prescient, and philosophical, ending: In the book, some vampires have developed a pill that keeps the disease in check and allows them to live relatively normal lives. This element now plays as an AIDS metaphor, though the book was written 30 years before H.I.V. was even identified.

It is this idea of pandemic, along with the concepts of vampirism and the effects of solitude on the human psyche, that have kept Mr. Matheson’s slim novel both contemporary and of interest to filmmakers. But the current version of “I Am Legend” nonetheless had a long road to the screen.

Warner Brothers has owned the rights to the book since 1970, and first decided to revive the project in 1994. “I Am Legend” was close to a start date in 1997, with Ridley Scott directing Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the studio pulled the plug when the budget climbed over $100 million, a huge sum at the time. (Studio executives declined to reveal the budget for the current version.) Then, in 2002, Michael Bay and Will Smith were set to hook up, but that pairing also fell through.

“There have been issues with the budget, script issues between director and actors, directors and the studio, even issues with what the creatures should look like,” said Mr. Lawrence, the director.

About two years ago Warner was about to drop the project for good when the studio’s president for production, Jeff Robinov, asked Mr. Smith if he would be willing to pair up with Mr. Goldsman to develop a new take on the material. Mr. Goldsman was one of the credited writers on “I, Robot,” which starred Mr. Smith. And he admired Mr. Lawrence for his work on “Constantine,” the 2005 fantasy-horror film.

Mr. Robinov says it is “the notion of isolation” that makes “I Am Legend” perennially attractive. “For an actor it involves a lot of character, the idea of being the last survivor,” he said. “And for a director it’s the story, the ability to create a different version of society, of where the world is at that point.”

Mr. Lawrence agreed. “I’ve always been fascinated by man’s isolation in an urban environment,” he said. “How someone survives when they’re by themselves for so long. Physically survives, mentally and emotionally survives with complete social deprivation.”

This time out the story is set in 2009, three years after something called the KV virus, developed in a laboratory but mutated out of control, has created a planet of bloodthirsty but still recognizably human freaks. Mr. Smith’s Neville, a former military scientist, has not been infected and is trying to find a cure for the pandemic. Manhattan had been quarantined back in 2006, and as far as Neville knows he is the only human left on the island, if not the world.

The story’s location was moved from California (the book is set in Compton) to New York. In addition to the interiors of Neville’s house, which were erected at the 66,000-square-foot Marcy Avenue Armory in Williamsburg, the production has shot in TriBeCa and on the aircraft carrier Intrepid. The filmmakers have also rented the 152,000-square-foot Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, which they are using for a large special-effects-driven action sequence to be staged next month. And in a particularly brazen piece of logistics, the production company cleared the area around St. Patrick’s Cathedral for a ghostly New York-without-humans sequence.

“It’s hard to make Los Angeles feel empty,” Mr. Goldsman said. “Here, you just have to look down Fifth Avenue empty, and you understand something. There’s a conveyance of information and fantasy that is wonderful and amazing.”

This version of the story also updates it to reflect current concerns. While the Heston film had a subtext with its roots in the early days of the environmental movement, the current film moves back toward Mr. Matheson’s concept of a viral apocalypse.

“There is a little bit of an AIDS metaphor here, especially in terms of dealing with the infected, because the people Neville deals with are infected,” said Mr. Lawrence. “They’re not dead, they’re not vampires, they have a chronic disease.”
For Mr. Goldsman, Mr. Matheson’s seeming ability to foretell an epidemic reflects the magic of sophisticated fantasy.

“People infected with AIDS have been on the forefront of understanding the truths about how viruses work, contagion works, stigma works, which is something I think Matheson was finding in that early novel,” he said. “He is like H. G. Wells and William Gibson, people who do a little leapfrogging imaginatively. And you wait around long enough, and suddenly you’re in one of their books.”

 

[Bastila]

Look at the outline of Will and the Dog they look funny, or something like their heads. They looked photoshoped there lol.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Thing is, by the end of the book, Neville was freaking jacked.

Well looking at Will i'd say he looks athletically trim

That new Pic looks to be taken from that awesome sequence in the Protevich script

Spoiler

Neville gets caught in his own trap and has to struggle to get free as the sun goes down

 

[xwolverine2]

this movie will be legend

 

[DOG LIPS]

The dog will be the star of the movie. Will Smith is the costar.

 

[terry78]

^Are you saying this is a remake of Turner and Hooch...or K-9?