What is it about this phrase that sets some people off so easily? Sometimes the book is better-one’s imagination can surely be more entertaining than what Hollywood tosses out, right? There are also occasions where the big wigs in Hollywood outdo the imagination and give us a masterpiece. We could have literally made the book, which I would have been much happier with, but you know when you're spending that much money you're panicking that you're making this weird little kind of art film about a guy alone with a dog in New York and you're trying to, you know, sort of create that spectacle.I’ve heard it a million times, you’ve heard it a million times, and for some reason I still can’t understand why people complain about hearing it. "They would have accepted the nihilistic ending, they would have accepted vampires instead of people with infections. "Looking back at it now, I think that we could have just done basically the story of the novella straight up and made the same amount of money in terms of ticket sales because people went, I think, for the last man on earth," Lawrence shared with ScreenRant. The film was a relative success, yet, looking back on it, director Francis Lawrence revealed he wished he had stuck closer to the source material. The novella inspired movies like The Omega Man, The Last Man on Earth and a direct adaptation of the property in 2007 starring Will Smith.
Richard Matheson's 1954 novella I Am Legend is a seminal tale of a man facing a lonely and horrific existence, as a virus has not only wiped out much of humanity, but it has also turned them into vampiric monsters.
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