And, to make matters better, they’re almost all really fun stories! Bonus! That’s right, three! And, unlike the last time I tackled a novel that had been adapted more than once, All the King’s Men, each of these adaptations are very different from the novel. Because today we’re going to be talking about Richard Matheson’s landmark novella I Am Legend and all three films that it’s been adapted into. I did some digging around, trying to find the best novel to tackle this year, and I think I did a pretty good job. And, just like last year, I’ve decided it’s high time to get a Film Library together, and to dive back into the depth of horror. 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.Happy Halloween everyone! Now that we’re in the most wonderful time of the year it’s time to start getting spooky. ![]() "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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