Fun fact: did you know that in the 1990s, "I Am Legend" was planned to be made into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Ridley Scott? Ridley Scott thought he could reinvent Arnold's public persona from a macho action hero to a man struggling with grief and depression, and Arnold was willing to broaden his acting horizons. But after "The Postman" and "Batman & Robin" bombed at the box office, Warner Brothers didn't believe that an R-rated blockbuster would be a sound financial investment. The project was put on indefinite hiatus. Ridley Scott went on to make Gladiator, Arnold became governor of California which put his acting career on hold. And eventually the project happened with Will Smith as the lead.
I don't think Arnold could have pulled off a grief stricken character. Heaven knows if that's what Will Smith was going for, he didn't pull it off. I'm just thinking about this guy who slept with his fugly maid, I can imagine how that seduction went:
Watch the movie Aftermath. If you've never heard of it I don't blame you. It's an independent film from 2017. Arnold plays a man whose wife and daugher are killed in a plane crash, and he actually did a decent job as a man wracked by grief and depression.
He also played a grief-stricken character in End of Days in 1999. But it was still mostly an action movie that Arnold going up against Lucifer.
As per the title, that was in the immediate aftermath of the grief, though. Harder to believe a guy like Arnold has been suffering for it for years like in I Am Legend.
I think it might be a little hard to believe that a guy who puts such work into himself as a professional bodybuilder like Arnold is crumbling under grief and depression. I mean, you could, but it would be more believable to have them looking drunk, unbathed, and out-of-shape.
Maggie is also good, a father whose daughter becomes infected by a zombie virus (in a future where the zombie apocalypse came and got it's ass kicked) and he negotiates with the government to have her live the last days of her life with him at their home in the country.
Fun fact, Warner Bros. doesn’t know crap about making good movies these days. Take for instance the fact that they hired racist/black supremacist to write the new superman movie. The guy has never written a script for a TV show or a movie and they want to put him as the lead writer along with JJ Abrams directing. Abrams pretty much screwed up the Star Trek franchise/reboot garbage.
No thanks WB.
Yes, but this was a special case. If I remember right test audiences liked them both but an executive made the call thinking the audience wouldn't understand the alternate ending because it was hard for him to understand.
Kind if like the matrix, originally the machines used human brains as a neural network to store data, but an executive didn't think the audience would understand the concept of "networked computers" so he had them change it to humans being used as batteries.
It wasn't a vaccine that turned them to zombies but a cancer treatment. What is fitting though is that by the events of the film the zombies had begun forming their own lives and communities, living in fear of the scary monster that would kidnap them while they slept. But in the eyes of Smith's character they were deplorable Neanderthals he had a duty to fix. So, he carelessly sacrificed dozens of them to save them from themselves, not realizing they didn't need or want to be saved. In the end they had to ban together to mount an insurrection.
In the book yeah. That's why the title was "I am legend", because vampires used to be legends to humanity but now that it's a world of vampires the humans who hunt them while they sleep are the legends.
Misanthropes see a guide book for a genocidal wet dream
Negative nillies have no place in power. You can't save humanity if all you want to do is dwell and obsess over things like war, slavery and human weaknesses. Power should only be allowed to people who want to band together for the greater good.
The deleted ending for that movie was better than the ending that made it into the theatrical release.
Deleted ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSk30qzgFs
Still better is the book.
Fun fact: did you know that in the 1990s, "I Am Legend" was planned to be made into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Ridley Scott? Ridley Scott thought he could reinvent Arnold's public persona from a macho action hero to a man struggling with grief and depression, and Arnold was willing to broaden his acting horizons. But after "The Postman" and "Batman & Robin" bombed at the box office, Warner Brothers didn't believe that an R-rated blockbuster would be a sound financial investment. The project was put on indefinite hiatus. Ridley Scott went on to make Gladiator, Arnold became governor of California which put his acting career on hold. And eventually the project happened with Will Smith as the lead.
I don't think Arnold could have pulled off a grief stricken character. Heaven knows if that's what Will Smith was going for, he didn't pull it off. I'm just thinking about this guy who slept with his fugly maid, I can imagine how that seduction went:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Wife's out of town
So you'll have to do.
Watch the movie Aftermath. If you've never heard of it I don't blame you. It's an independent film from 2017. Arnold plays a man whose wife and daugher are killed in a plane crash, and he actually did a decent job as a man wracked by grief and depression.
He also played a grief-stricken character in End of Days in 1999. But it was still mostly an action movie that Arnold going up against Lucifer.
As per the title, that was in the immediate aftermath of the grief, though. Harder to believe a guy like Arnold has been suffering for it for years like in I Am Legend.
I think it might be a little hard to believe that a guy who puts such work into himself as a professional bodybuilder like Arnold is crumbling under grief and depression. I mean, you could, but it would be more believable to have them looking drunk, unbathed, and out-of-shape.
This guy doesn't lift.
Grog move rock.
Head voice quiet.
I do lift, and I know firsthand it's a cure and anthithesis for depression.
Maggie is also good, a father whose daughter becomes infected by a zombie virus (in a future where the zombie apocalypse came and got it's ass kicked) and he negotiates with the government to have her live the last days of her life with him at their home in the country.
He's a surprisingly good dramatic actor.
Fun fact, Warner Bros. doesn’t know crap about making good movies these days. Take for instance the fact that they hired racist/black supremacist to write the new superman movie. The guy has never written a script for a TV show or a movie and they want to put him as the lead writer along with JJ Abrams directing. Abrams pretty much screwed up the Star Trek franchise/reboot garbage. No thanks WB.
Wow, that ending is so much better than the one they actually went with! Just goes to show that hollywood is filled with dumbass's.
You do know they pick those based on test audiences, right?
Yes, but this was a special case. If I remember right test audiences liked them both but an executive made the call thinking the audience wouldn't understand the alternate ending because it was hard for him to understand.
Kind if like the matrix, originally the machines used human brains as a neural network to store data, but an executive didn't think the audience would understand the concept of "networked computers" so he had them change it to humans being used as batteries.
>If I remember right
Source other than 👆🏻?
Kind of Ill fitting.
It wasn't a vaccine that turned them to zombies but a cancer treatment. What is fitting though is that by the events of the film the zombies had begun forming their own lives and communities, living in fear of the scary monster that would kidnap them while they slept. But in the eyes of Smith's character they were deplorable Neanderthals he had a duty to fix. So, he carelessly sacrificed dozens of them to save them from themselves, not realizing they didn't need or want to be saved. In the end they had to ban together to mount an insurrection.
I thought they were vampires, which was why they burned in the sun and were active at night.
Same here.
In the book yeah. That's why the title was "I am legend", because vampires used to be legends to humanity but now that it's a world of vampires the humans who hunt them while they sleep are the legends.
The guy making the vaccine turned out tone the bad guy the whole time
Based on a true story.
https://banthis.tv/watch?id=604628ff7d2e5c334e317a81
This movie was the first thing I thought of when they announced the new vaccines were experimental mRNA concoctions.
I am Legend, 1984, Idiocracy...
Humanitarians see stories like this as a warning
Misanthropes see a guide book for a genocidal wet dream
Negative nillies have no place in power. You can't save humanity if all you want to do is dwell and obsess over things like war, slavery and human weaknesses. Power should only be allowed to people who want to band together for the greater good.
I was just telling my hubby the other day that I could not believe this movie is not memory holed yet.
They’re vampires.
Creepy
Y’all dumb as shit or this place is getting astroturfed by the Chinese. Genuinely can’t tell anymore.
Daddy, chill.