Hyperimiator posted:
Gibbon_raver posted:
Reapist posted:
The book that I Am Legend (same name) is from is what started it all. I saw the original movie. The Omega Man.
The Omega Man was actually a remake of the Vincent Price movie
The Last Man on Earth
I disagree, I had a first print I think paperback copy of the book I am Legend and they touted the Omega Man as the movie from it, it is the cure search and the female it in that counts, though I like the ending of the book better where in the end he is the monster.
*shrug* That is actually how I have seen it described in publications. In any case, the plot line in both movies are nearly identical.
The Omega Man (stylised as The Omega Man) is a 1971 American science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston. It is based on the novel I Am Legend (1954) by American writer Richard Matheson.[1] The screenplay is by John William Corrington and Joyce Corrington, and it was filmed in Technicolor with monaural sound, with a running time of 98 minutes.[2] Its producer is Walter Seltzer, who also produced Heston in the 1973 science fiction film, Soylent Green.[3]
The story was first filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964) featuring Vincent Price. A third adaptation of the novel, I Am Legend featuring Will Smith, was released in 2007; and an unofficial fourth, I Am Omega, featuring Mark Dacascos, was also released in 2007 (though neither Matheson's name or novel were credited as source material for this version).
As multiple reviewers have noted,[4][5] the film differs from its source in several ways including the basic premise. In the novel the cause of the demise of humanity is a plague spread by mosquitoes, whereas in the film human biological warfare is the cause. One reviewer speculated this may have been due to one of the screenwriters having a doctorate in chemistry.[6]
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