I recall seeing a thread about this before and I searched, but the search engine wouldn't all me to use "I" or "Am"...

So...is this a remake?

I'm guessing the plot is, Will Smith wakes up/arrives in the future and he's the last human on Earth (or at least in New York) and some one told me there was something about mutants...

Am I close?

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Although technically a remake, I believe it is going to be the first faithful adaptation of the Richard Mattheson (sp?) novel.

In which case, he won't wake up or arrive in the future. He'll be the one who has managed to avoid the vampire plague.

Of course, it might be an action flick with only the most tenuous of links to the book, and be no more standout than the other adaptations. Which would be a shame.

Here:

I Am Legend

Was that a Google search? I used the search terms:

smith legend

but the quoted string:

"I am legend"

also turned it up.

Yes.

Not that close. Have you seen "Omega Man"? It looks pretty similar, but with a modern twist. From what I can gather (I haven't seen much other than the trailer) it looks like this time it's terrorists (rather than world war) that release the disease. Most survivors, if it is like the previous movie, are insane and slowly dying.

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Pretty good synopsis of the novel can be found here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend

I hope the film sticks to the storyline, if so should be fairly good.


The trailer looks decent so I have high hopes for it.

Trailer link http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/

I haven't seen Omega Man, but a friend was telling me about it

Van Rijn, I used the search tool on the website

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

I heard in the NY Times that the plague was accidentally created to cure another disease.
Can you say Marsh of Camarina?

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... as long as its more faithful to the original material than "I, Robot" was....

;-)


I happened to find the original Vincent Price "Last Man on Earth" in a bargain DVD bin a few weeks ago for a couple of dollars.

Which one? There is the google search in the upper right hand corner (that's what I used) and the search from the menu bar (I almost never use that).

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Third interation, "Last Man On Earth" with Vincent Price being the first, and "Omega Man" being the second. This one could be interesting depending on how closely they follow Mathesons' storyline, particularly the ending.
An interesting comparison between the original novel and the various films-
http://www.hackwriters.com/iamlegend.htm

Fourth interaction.

This is a comment from a site where "I am Omega" could be pirated:

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The I, Robot film, like Starship Troopers, was an attempt to tack on a famous book title, and a few incidental concepts from the book, to an existing second-rate generic sci-fi script. I think I Am Legend is using a purpose-written script.

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Hey

I used the one on the menu bar (later on I noticed that google can search BAUT specifically...I'll use that from now on..)

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

And soon there will be a direct-to-video sequel, I Am Still Legend.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Wasn't the autobiography of former British politician Michael Foot called I Am Leg End?

The original title of The Incredible Shrinking Man was I Am Lessened.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Yegads it's happening again! HELP ME!!!

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

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Soy comes from mutants?
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I am legend, hear me bore ...

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And The Amazing Colossal Man was going to be called I Am Lengthened, but the censorship laws were much stricter back then...

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