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I Am Legend. It's the Omega Man sans Heston.
Lord Jezo
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I Am Legend - Trailer.
The book that the movie The Omega Man was based on is being made into a movie, I Am Legend. Instead of an older white man (Heston) playing the lead role we now have a fit sexy black man (Will Smith).
The trailer looks pretty cool. I hope its as awesome as the Heston version. I just ordered the book to give myself a head start for this winter.
The book that the movie The Omega Man was based on is being made into a movie, I Am Legend. Instead of an older white man (Heston) playing the lead role we now have a fit sexy black man (Will Smith).
The trailer looks pretty cool. I hope its as awesome as the Heston version. I just ordered the book to give myself a head start for this winter.
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The concept of it is that someone wakes up to find himself the last human being on earth, or what?
I looked up the book in Wiki and it gave away the story for me plus I am sooo tired of Will Smith.
Why? Isn't it still the same story? Last man on Earth, except for all the goddamn vampires/zombies/whatever
Yeah, superficially. Only in the book the vampire zombies were actually quite intelligent and, well, I can't really explain the problem with this film unless you have read the book. And everybody should have read the book because it's fucking brilliant and not very long so there's really no excuses.
The general point is, though, that the title I Am Legend doesn't actually work in any meaningful context unless the film tracks the story of the original novel properly.
Do we know that the movie isn't doing it right? I mean, my knowledge of the film is largely limited to "Hey, Will Smith is going to be in I am Legend" and the recent trailer.
I only got like, 20 pages into the book before I ended up stopping a few years back. I suppose I should read it.
On the book:
Here's to hoping there is a Will Smith I Am Legend rap song during the credits.
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December 7th, I think.
Hopefully it's truer to the source material than The Omega Man. They kept the title from the book, at any rate.
Right?
The draft I'd read for Will's version of Legend was at least a bit better than the one written for Arnold. The film's a different draft, though -- Will's not driving a Hummer on the outskirts of LA.
Yeah they do
Though I guess I might be remembering it wrong. It's been a while.
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Not that I want to crush your hopes and dreams, but over on RPG.Net, someone posted
Still, it's too early to tell for sure. Hopefully they're referring to the earlier Ahnold script, and not this one.
Stupid Will Smith, thinks he's so great after Ali and The Pursuit of Happiness
If you want to see a piss poor show to movie translation watch the Wild Wild West which from the preview looked as garbage as it was in the theater. I don't get that feeling from this trailer so maybe someone else has other evidence?
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I don't hate Will Smith. However, I don't think a producer would look at a fundamentally bleak, depressing screenplay with a downbeat ending and think "Will Smith would be perfect for this!" He's never done a film like that before (unless Ali counts; I never saw it), and to my knowledge all of his big-budget action films have always ended positively. I think he COULD pull it off; I just doubt that he'd be cast in a role like that in the first place.
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Does a more popularized movie really take away from the subject work? Or is this just intellectual masturbation to feel better then your percieved lessers?
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Yep, that's it. I just read the book a few weeks ago, finally. It was pretty awesome. I can't say I have very high hopes for this, it would have to stick pretty damn close to the exact plot of the book for it to be anything else than a run of the mill "zombie movie".
When you read a really good book, and someone says, "We're going to make a movie out of this book!" and then they completely change the entire point of the book, it's kind of a kick in the nuts.
I mean, Ghostbusters was a good movie. I liked Ghostbusters. But when I go to a theater to see Lord of the Rings, I don't want to watch fucking Ghostbusters, because that's not the story I've been led to expect.
Yeah, but that's just garden variety disappointment. I think it's a fair point.
The bigger reason that people are upset is that the same screenwriter who "adapted" I, Robot wrote the screenplay for I Am Legend. Granted, I'm pretty sure the I, Robot script was based on an earlier script that had nothing to with the novel, and that the writer was told to base it on the old script, rather than the novel. In this case, I'm not sure if it's based on the book or the earlier draft. I do remember reading somewhere that it's more inspired by the old movie than it is the original book.
I haven't read I Am Legend, but the concept sounds awesome, and I really like Will Smith as an actor. I'm not sure he can pull off "scientist", but he's a hell of a better choice than Ahnold. The setting switch from LA to NYC is awesome, too, because LA already feels disconnected, but seeing NYC that empty is just creepy.
Anyway, fans of the book can hope for a faithful adaptation, but I'll just be happy seeing Will Smith shoot up some vampire zombies.
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And from reading everyones comments, I guess I am.
That's right, because it's the fucking best.
I'm 100% sure I will hate this remake.
But yeah, the fact that it's being directed by the director of Constantine from a screenplay adapted by one of the geniuses behind I, Robot and Batman & Robin collaborating with the guy who gave us The Cell under the executive production of the dude who brought us Rollerball does not bode well.
They should have given it to Danny Boyle.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.