From a doomed Arnold Schwarzenegger/Ridley Scott collaboration to Will Smith's blockbuster hit, the journey of I Am Legend to the screen is as dramatic as the apocalypse it depicts.

Three wildly different film adaptations, a legendary unmade version; this story of humanity's end keeps haunting Hollywood.

This is not the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's book I Am Legend. Vincent Price battled zombie-vampires in 1964's stark black-and-white thriller The Last Man on Earth. Charlton Heston faced off against intelligent albino mutants called "the Family" in 1971's, The Omega Man. Each adaptation changed the creatures, the cause of the apocalypse, and crucially, gave audiences hope where the book offered none.

With only 16 weeks of prep time, the Will Smith/Francis Lawrence version, this time named I Am Legend, spent years in development hell, and quickly went from a 40-page outline to a greenlit blockbuster, and to say it was chaotic is an understatement. Whole New York City blocks were closed off for filming, and one scene on the Brooklyn Bridge cost $5 million for just six nights of filming. One week into filming, director Francis Lawrence panicked and switched from practical makeup effects to CGI, extending post-production and inflating the budget. The team was still seeing finished visual effects shots just one month before the film's release, leading to last-minute reshoots to adjust the controversial ending.

I Am Legend offers a unique blend of action and deep emotional storytelling, highlighting human isolation and the struggle for survival, with one of the bestest canine companions in film. Will Smith's performance as Dr. Robert Neville is both captivating and heartbreaking, showcasing his character's descent into loneliness, and the eerie depiction of an empty New York City resonates deeply in today's world, reflecting on themes of loss and solitude in a pandemic context.

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Hi everyone. I'm Em and welcome to Verbal diorama, episode 321, I Am Legend. This is the podcast that's all about the history and legacy.

Movies you know, and movies you don't. That factor. Fast forward the chapters on the Blu Ray where Sam gets infected and dies because they just make me too upset.

Still to this day, I can't watch a dog die on screen. I just can't. Welcome to Verbal Diorama. Whether you're a brand new listener, whether you're a regular returning listener, thank you for being here.

Thank you for choosing to listen to this podcast. As always, I'm so happy to have you here for the history and legacy of I Am Legend. A huge thank you.

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This podcast has been going for almost seven years now and I'm hugely grateful for your support and it genuinely means so much because yes, even by listening to a podcast, you are still supporting that podcast. And I am so grateful for that support.

And we are moving on from last week, which was Austin Powers International man of Mystery, a movie that almost ended in catastrophe, but didn't, thanks to Austin Powers, to a movie that has a future, generic, apocalyptic catastrophe, but that also has a great Will Smith performance and a thoughtful, occasionally insightful, often deviating adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel of the same name. Here's the trailer for I Am Legend.

Scientist Robert Neville was unable to stop the spread of a terrible virus that was incurable and man made. Now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world.

For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But Robert Neville is not alone.

Mutant victims of the plague, the dark Seekers lurk in the shadows, watching his every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last best hope. Neville is driven by only one remaining mission.

To find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he's outnumbered and quickly running out of time. Let's run through the cast of the movie.

We have Will Smith as Dr. Robert Neville, Abby as Samantha, Alice Braga as Anna, Charlie Tayan as Ethan, Sally Richardson as Zoe Neville, Willow Smith as Marley Neville, Dash Mihok as the Alpha male and Joanna Numata as the Alpha female. I Am Legend has a screenplay by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman and was directed by Francis Lawrence.

The Last man on Earth wasn't a commercial success, but it was a critical one.

Matheson would say that while it was faithful to his novel, Price was miscast as protagonist Dr. Robert Morgan with weak and unintelligent vampiritic creatures that are repelled by garlic and sunlight and that quote, aren't very over the top but don't seem very threatening either, unquote. The movie the Last man on Earth is now in the public domain. So if you come across it on the Internet, have a watch.

Dr. Robert Neville is the only immune survivor, killing members of the family plague victims that have transformed into an intelligent race of albino mutants with poor eyesight.

The 90s had led to some scientific breakthroughs like the start of the Human Genome Project and the cloning of Dolly the Sheep.

And along with that science came the resulting conversations about the ethics and morals of science and what would happen to humanity if we took science too far or messed around too much with nature. Jurassic park took the idea of creating dinosaurs from DNA species talked about an alien human hybrid wanting to mate with humans.

Event Horizon created a haunted house in space and Dark City was a city in perpetual night where aliens experimented on the human mind.

The idea that humans could unwittingly create a virus that made most of the population into mindless zombie vampire creatures wasn't outside of the realm of Hollywood possibility. Warner Bros.

Protosevic's script for I Am Legend was fast tracked by Warner Bros. With Neil H. Moritz joining as producer. It featured many things that would end up in the finished film.

Scott wasn't impressed with the original script by Mark Protosevich and hired screenwriter John Logan to create a new draft. Scott envisioned the project as a blend of blockbuster and art film. Planning to trim dialogue to the bone with the first act being almost silent.

Scott wanted to reinvent Schwarzenegger's on screen Persona showing the action star struggling with grief and depression without relying on his typical quips.

Both men had been involved in genre defining sci fi before, Scott directing Alien and Blade Runner and Schwarzenegger starring in the Terminator series and Total Recall.

John Logan's version of the I Am Legends script was a mix of sci fi and psychological thriller without dialogue in the first hour and with a somber ending. Its creatures were barbaric and animalistic.

And the studio, concerned about commercial appeal and merchandising potential, because it's always about merchandising, began to worry they'd made a mistake in hiring Ridley Scott. Logan's script was dropped in favour of reruns by Neal Jimenez, but Protosevich was rehired instead.

Scott went full force into pre production, enlisting Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. At Amalgamated Dynamics for a four month design period for the creature makeup. They put together an elaborate makeup test for the mutant vampires.

Now, we know these designs weren't used, but they should have been because as the videos on YouTube show, they're beautifully designed, practical creatures. Once the Ridley Scott version was cancelled, the team were contacted again when the Will Smith and Francis Lawrence version went ahead.

However, as we know, we ended up with CG creatures, but I will pop the link to the original makeup tests in the show notes. So what happened to the Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger version? Well, they weren't having the best years of their careers at the time.

And at the time, Will Smith was coming off an unparalleled street as a leading man, with Independence Day and Men in Black proving his leading man credentials and his sense of humor and Enemy of the State as a more serious role, which he then cemented further in Ali as the Goat Muhammad Ali. Bay and Smith were interested, but Warner Bros President Alan F. Horn disliked the script and once again I Am Legend was shelved.

And Akiva Goldsman also stepped up to writing duties to distance it from recent zombie movies like 28 Days later, with elements of Protosevic's script kept.

Most importantly, Goldsman moved the script location from Los Angeles to New York to highlight the emptiness of the city and more on the New York shoots in a bit.

Francis Lawrence came to the movie with a desire to keep the star atmospheric and almost silent because he realised that silence could be effective cinema.

But delays to Hancock meant the movies essentially switched places, and I Am Legend had to become even more fast tracked to fit into Smith's schedule. Smith had also wanted Guillermo del Toro to direct I Am Legend, but Del Toro declined, preferring to work on Hellboy 2 the Golden Army.

Smith would visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington to see a level four lab, the most secure, where they experiment with biological Hazards.

He also met with a person who had been in solitary confinement and a former prisoner of war to research how loneliness and solitude affects mental health. He would say that Robert Neville was his toughest role since playing Muhammad Ali.

The script would be constantly rewritten during production, mostly due to Smith's ad nibbing. And honestly, I'm just surprised now that we are post Covid that with an airborne virus, no one in this movie thinks to wear a face mask.

Sally Richardson would join as Neville's wife Zoe, who was originally named Ginny, and Alice Braga as Anna. There were unconfirmed reports that Gabrielle Union was being cast. Obviously that never happened.

The movie didn't manage to nab Emma Thompson though, who goes accredited for her role as Dr. Alice Krippin, the scientist who finds the cure for cancer by genetically engineering the measles virus, unwittingly creating a global pandemic. While Will Smith received top billing, the real star of the movie is Abbey, the dog actor who plays Samantha, AKA Sam.

Abbey was a rescue from a California kennel. She wasn't a trained dog actor, but her rescuer was Steve Behrens, a dog trainer with 28 years of experience.

Abbey, who was three years old, was exactly the sort of dog Lawrence was looking for. And after just three weeks of intense training, Abbey met Will Smith.

Smith for his part, fell in love with Abbey and even tried to adopt her after filming because their relationship was so great. During filming together, they worked on the film for six months and Abbey only refused to shoot one scene, which was ironically the play fetch scene.

They instead used another three year old German shepherd called Kona who had just given birth to a litter of puppies. Before filming, Abbey and Kona were made up to look identical. For filming, Abbey was such a superstar, she did her own stunts too.

Not only did she really walk on a treadmill in real life, the scene I still can't watch where she starts to turn and Neville decides to end her life, Abbey performed this herself the trainer would get her to roll down Smith's arm into the ground, effectively playing dead. Smith was actually scared that she could get hurt, but Abbey could just go completely limp on command. And the whole production adored Abbey.

But back to filming, because this surprised me too, when I found out about it. I Am Legend is shot in New York in some of the busiest places on Earth. Grand Central Station, Fifth Avenue and Washington Square Park.

And honestly, genuinely, I thought most of these scenes were cgi, but they're not. They filmed on those barren, empty, vegetation growing streets. For real. You can imagine.

Warner Brothers weren't keen on closing whole city blocks for filming. And they initially rejected Lawrence's idea to do so. But he was adamant it needed to add to this feeling of unease.

And he didn't want to shoot these scenes on a soundstage. He wanted to shoot it in the real life New York City. He even filmed test footage in New York on a camcorder.

And a special effects team removed the people to get the eerie feel they were after. Warner Bros. Was convinced. But how do you get the city that never sleeps to sleep?

Throughout production, they had to carefully plan and prep what they would need to do to make this world look not only empty, but completely barren of human life. For years, they weren't even sure how much of the city would be covered in green.

It was the biggest film in the history of New York to that point. The mayor's office was on set almost every day. The police commissioner visited too. New York's ground level.

Pedestrians would simply be stopped from entering a certain area. They cleared from 57th street to St. Patrick's Cathedral. That's a few blocks, apparently. They had 350 production assistants, police and security.

Traffic was stopped, and for the most part, people were okay with it.

But while ground level, they used local law enforcement to stop traffic and redress the streets with strewn cars and random weed and foliage for Will Smith and Abby to walk and drive around. There were still things that needed cg, such as the people high up in their apartments or offices looking out of the windows.

They all had to be removed in post production.

Fourteen government agencies would individually have to approve the shoot, which needed 250 crew members as well as a thousand extras and 160 members of the National Guard. Again, everything in the scene was real, except for the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge from missiles.

Obviously, the scene where Neville's wife and daughter are killed in a helicopter crash was especially difficult. It was 3am Extras were freezing cold. Everyone was tired. So Will Smith decided to lighten the mood by singing Miami. And apparently everyone loved it.

While most New Yorkers were respectful and opened their city to the production graciously, Will Smith would say that he was a controversial figure for some New Yorkers. Quote, I don't think anyone's going to be able to do that in New York again anytime soon. People were not happy.

That's the most middle fingers I've ever gotten in my career. Unquote. Parts of the Times Square sequence were shot on soundstages with the surrounding buildings recreated in CG.

They shot Times Square in the 600 foot by 300 foot Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. Times Square was being redesigned at the time, and the team got those plans and designed the movie's version of those plans.

But if we're going to talk about the CG in this movie, we need to talk about the creatures.

And following on from Amalgamated Dynamics makeup tests on the Ridley Scott version of the creatures, Francis Lawrence originally envisioned the actors playing the Dark Seekers, or hemocytes, where in prosthetics the creatures would be nocturnal with spiked metabolisms and hyperventilation.

Casting director Kathleen Chopin sourced a combination of modern dancers, stunt people, parkour performers and acrobats, as the Dark Seekers called the Infected. In the script, they had to be between 5, 10 and 6, 1 and under 190 pounds.

The original idea was that these people would be of a hive mind, like ants or birds. All of the actors playing the Infected would be shaved top to bottom.

And originally the plan was for them to be completely naked, but the studio refused to allow that. They were. Removable body hair, though, including on their heads, which for the dancers was especially traumatic to have their heads shaved.

These people performed together for the producers, for Will Smith and Francis Lawrence, and their performance terrified everyone. They genuinely looked the part with their physical performance and wearing these prosthetics.

Their first shoot was the scene where the Dark Seekers run through Washington Square park and everyone thought it looked great, except for Francis Lawrence.

He didn't find the performances by the actors convincing and a week into filming he made a change that would probably be the biggest change made to this movie, a change that would affect post production and the resulting critical success of the movie.

He decided to make the creatures completely cgi but used the actors they had already hired, primarily Dash Mihok and Joanna Numata, as the motion capture for the CG creatures. The CG was completed by Sony Pictures imageworks.

Many people in the production did believe the change lost some of the grace of hiring such talented dancers and performers by turning them into CGI creatures and Sony Pictures imageworks.

Instead of working from a detailed shot list to produce specific movements to be used in pre planned shots, the team focused on developing a library of movements that could be edited, turned into animation and combined with the live action shots later in the production.

The movies do occasionally like to mess with viewers though with the use of mimes if you thought the mannequin used to entrap Robert Neville on the street, his name was Fred, by the way. If you thought Fred moved, you may have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you.

However, Fred was played in the scene by a mime who was instructed to move ever so slightly to show Neville's deteriorating mental state, but also put the viewer on edge.

If you go on YouTube and search for that particular scene in I Am Legend with Fred, you will see he does move and it is genuinely terrifying to see what you think is a mannequin moving but segueing to something not at all terrifying.

It is time for the obligatory Keanu reference of this episode, and if you don't know what that is, it's where I try and link every movie that I feature with Keanu Reeves for no reason other than he is genuinely the best of all men. And this is a really easy one. Surprisingly easy, because as I've already mentioned, Francis Lawrence directed this movie.

Francis Lawrence also directed Constantine, which is a very underrated movie just in general, but also a very underrated Keanu Reeves movie. I have done an episode on Constantine.

It is a very old episode now, but I really love that movie and I think Keanu Reeves is great in it, as he is in most of his movies. Not that I'm biased, but that is the easiest way to link Keanu Reeves to I Am Legend.

Moving on to the music though, Robert Neville says that he and his wife named their daughter Marley after Bob, not Damien. He holds up a CD calling it the best album ever made.

The album is Bob Marley's Legend, which is a greatest hits compilation that was released after Marley's death. The movie features four Bob Marley songs, Redemption Song, Three Little Birds, Buffalo Soldier and Stir It Up.

But this is where the story starts to get a little bit difficult for I Am Legend because not only has I Am Legend completely removed all of its wonderful practical prosthetic creatures, it also quite famously had an original ending. But one month before the movie was scheduled for release, last minute reshoots were ordered.

The rumor was that test audiences hadn't liked the ending, which was more faithful to Richard Matheson's original story, which had a downbeat ending for humanity, highlighting the future for the creatures.

The original ending of the movie changes the perspectives of the creatures, making Neville the true villain of the story all along that these creatures aren't just mindless animals like Neville suggests, but have created their own society capable of a hierarchy and affection. Lawrence was optimistic about the reshoots, claiming that he liked doing them and that he saw them as a positive thing for the movie.

This ending shows Neville realising the error of his ways, returning the female Darkseeker to her people and the alpha male Darkseeker and the others leaving the house peacefully. Neville abandons his research and heads off in search of a survivor's colony with Anna and Ethan.

It would drop to second in its second week on the release of National Treasure Book of Secrets, but it would stay in the top 10 for six weeks on a budget of $150 million. I Am Legend grossed $256.4 million domestically in the US and $329 million internationally for a total worldwide gross of $585.4 million.

It currently has a 68% on rotten tomatoes, with a critics consensus of I Am Legend overcomes questionable special effects and succeeds largely on the strengths of Will Smith's mesmerizing performance.

And critics generally acknowledged Smith's performance, carrying the movie almost solely for its first half, but also noting the collapse of the narrative in the third act and the unconvincing CG creatures. It was also criticised for its Christian imagery for the theatrical release treating Neville through an almost Christ like lens.

Scientists also criticised the movie for the plausibility of a measles based virus mutating and spreading in such a virulent way, as well as the depiction of flora and fauna survival in an urban environment.

Interestingly, this sequel would follow the alternative ending of the movie and not the theatrical ending. Michael B. Jordan would also be joining Smith in co starring and co producing with Akiva Goldsman returning to pen the script.

As of recording this podcast, I am Legend 2 is still in pre production with no planned release date. A global pandemic, empty streets, the race to find a cure, Batman v Superman. It all seems the stuff of fiction, the stuff of legend.

However, somehow I Am Legend predicted all of those things with startling accuracy and Will Smith is the best thing in this movie by far.

Apart from Abbey the Dog, he genuinely captures the mental anguish of being the last man on earth and his downfall is heartbreaking, but also the downfall of his own humanity as well as his sanity. Smith carries this movie and it is one of his best performances.

As much as I love Arnie, I don't quite think he could have done this, but I think we can all agree the theatrical ending is the rum ending. For one. How does it lead to Robert Neville becoming the legend implied by the title?

In the book he becomes a legend because his death meant the end of the human race, but this isn't true in either ending of the movie. In one, Neville dies, but the cure survives. And in the other, Neville lives in the last man on earth, the Omega man, and I am legend.

The lead character, whether that be Robert Morgan or Robert Neville, is on a personal quest for a cure to a disease he himself is immune to, which suggests that these creatures need to be cured or want to be cured, but they don't. And who decides whether these creatures are to be cured or not?

He sees them as a disability to be rectified, not beings capable of their own thoughts and emotions. Because human beings are arrogant enough to believe they are the best of all creatures.

The fact these creatures set a trap for him after he set a trap for one of theirs should have told Robert Neville they were smart and capable. But somehow, despite him being one of the best scientists in the world, he never wants twigs. Hollywood has always othered everything else.

The human protagonists are always right, and the monsters can never be the heroes is one of the reasons why I find the work of Guillermo del Toro so compelling, because in many of his movies, the monsters are the heroes. Imagine what he could have done with this material. It's one of those scenarios I wish we could have seen, like his Hobbit movies, for example.

Whether these creatures are vampires or zombies remains up for debate.

But while we see Neville's fear of these creatures through his interactions, when Sam runs into the dark building, they only attack him after he kidnaps their own. And as we find out, she's the latest in a long line of creatures Neville has killed in the pursuit of a cure.

A cure these creatures never wanted or asked for, that he believes is the best thing for them.

This movie excels at quiet reflection, the screaming solitude, but it fails to show Neville's level of hubris and privilege, and the theatrical ending just takes away from everything he could have possibly learned or recognized to make him the typical Hollywood hero. In many ways, the inclusion of the movie Shrek is interesting because Shrek is the othered character, the one people fear and want to get rid of.

He is the creature in his own movie.

And to this day people are still suffering the after effects, whether that's through long Covid economical status, through job loss, or through their own grief and trauma. The scenes of empty New York are eerie.

The CG animals look decent enough, but the CG creatures just unfortunately don't don't look great and the chances are this was simply down to the amount of time left to the effects teams and this is something that we know Hollywood is terrible at these days. Chances are it was also still as terrible back then.

His book never had a cure or a hero savior. It's just about the end of a single man's story that was the end of humanity as he knew its story.

It's unsurprising that Matheson didn't care too much for this adaptation either. I think this is a movie with so much promise that delivers so much in its first half and then just quickly seems to race to an unsatisfactory ending.

The scenes between Neville and Sam are just superb. The general atmosphere and sense of unease at the potential of these creatures is better than the reveal of them.

The man and his dog at the end of the world is the best part.

The fact the death of a dog hits harder than the death of Neville's wife and child really tells you everything about where this movie's heart and soul really is.

While it's great that Neville gets human companions eventually, they come so close to the end that we don't really get to know them other than they eat his good bacon. Side note, I don't think bacon lasts three years unless Robert Neville raised and butchered his own pigs.

But throughout the movie, Neville comments on his findings on the creatures, commenting on the fact that typical human behaviour is now absent and social devolution appears complete, that they have become truly monstrous. He could be talking about creatures, or he could be talking about himself and humanity in general.

The same humanity who takes great pains to never learn from history and repeat destructive behavior. Scientists still tamper with the laws of nature and play God. We still create bigger and better weapons.

Genetic research has reached a point where we can select embryos without certain disabilities and hereditary conditions.

You could see that as a great thing for science, but you could also see that as a stepping point to choosing a child's eye color, hair color, gender, sexual preference. The list goes on and on. Humanity does great things, but it also does selfish things.

Death is inevitable, but creatures like these are death coming back to haunt us, and that's why they frighten us. Going back to zombie cinema over the decades and something I've spoken about several times before on this podcast.

It's not death that's scary, it's continually living. Thank you for listening. As always, I would love to hear your thoughts on I Am Legend and thank you for your continued support of this podcast.

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Or you could tell your friends and family about this podcast or about this episode. And if you like this episode on I Am Legend, I would highly recommend episode 216, which was on George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

There are a lot of similarities between Night of the Living Dead and I Am Legend for obvious reasons, but obviously Night of the Living Dead is a seminal zombie classic and it was such an interesting episode to do and such a truly wonderful movie to cover on this podcast. As always, give me feedback on my recommendations. Let me know if you watch that movie.

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That you can be Mr. Right now, not Mr. Right. And maybe Summer Finn isn't the bad guy people think she is.

That idealizing and romanticizing and projecting your wants and desires onto anyone up front isn't the right way to be with someone. Next episode on this podcast. It is the history and legacy of 500 Days of Summer in winter.

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