I Am Legend set to go

Post by **King of Creation** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:15 pm

[ Film & TV -> Update ] - More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/index.php?title=I Am Legend">Film & TV: I Am Legend</a>

The post apocalyptic film I Am Legend is moving forward, albeit at a slow pace.
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Warner Bros. has officially set "Constantine" helmer Francis Lawrence to direct "I Am Legend", finally putting the long awaited film adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel on a fast track into production reports Variety.

Mark Protosevich wrote the script for the film
which has been on and off in development for a decade with Ridley Scott
and Arnold Schwarzenegger at one time involved, Michael Bay and Will
Smith at another. The film has previously hit the screen twice before -
1964's "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price, and 1976's "The
Omega Man" with Charlton Heston.

Set in Los Angeles after a biological war, the pic centers on the sole
healthy survivor, a man who finds himself in a battle against nocturnal
mutants. Pic will undergo a rewrite under the supervision of Lawrence,
who is eyeing a 2006 start date. 
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It would have been cooler with the governor. Spotted @ <a href="http://www.darkhorizons.com/">Dark Horizons</a>

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:55 pm

Anything with arnold makes it x13 better than it would have been.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:16 pm

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:Anything with arnold makes it x13 better than it would have been.

True.

Seeing the progression, or rather depression, of the movie; Ridley Scott-Arnold, Michael Bay-Will Smith, and now Francis Lawrence, I wouldn't be surprised that in the end, Uwe Boll directs it and Ben Affleck plays in it.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:22 pm

I don't give a shit's ass about this movie.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:08 pm

Well, Constantine was alright once you got past the butchering of the license. Unfortunately, this is another license for the guy to butcher. We shall see.

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:33 pm

S4ur0n27 wrote:Michael Bay-Will Smith

...the horror...

:shudder:

Constantine was actually marginally good.
Would've been better if Ron Pearlman did a cameo as Swamp Thing

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:49 pm

ApTyp wrote:shit's ass

Oxymoron'd!

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:40 pm

I would have loved to see this directed by Ridley Scott. In all honesty, I can't think of another director with such a good record. I can't think of a single bad movie he's done. That aside, I think giving this film to the guy who did Constantine was a bad, bad idea.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:41 pm

We already have Omega Man, isn't one movie enough?

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:02 pm

Just proves how creatively bankrupt Hollywood is. Suddenly half the movies out are from TV shows and movies from the 70s.

Seriously, how far off are remakes of Westworld and Gymkata?

That being said I wouldn't mind seeing a Buck Rogers movie bee-dee-bee-dee bee-dee

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:03 pm

Isn't Westworld already in production for quite some time? (unless that was your point).

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:35 pm

No shit, did not know that. But I kinda figured it, given remakes of Rollerball and Logan's Run. I'm guessing Vin Deisel does the Yul Brener role.

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:42 pm

Alrighty! Another post-apocalyptic movie!

But this proves that Hollywood has no more ideas to do a 3rd remake of a movie/book...

On a side not, it would be cool having Arnold in another movie, although he can't really now... I picture "The Governator"!

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:48 pm

Vincent Price and then Charlton Heston. After Omega Man, they can only go downhill.
That being said I will probabally go watch it sometime.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:31 am

Ive got last man on earth on DVD, Ill stick with Price (And maybe get omega man if I happen to see it for $10 or under) but otherwise I dont give a rats ass.

Post appoc or not, if its a remake of a remake.... I just dont give a fuck.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:48 pm

Koki wrote:
ApTyp wrote:shit's ass
Oxymoron'd!

olol you said moron

Anyway, I think you rather meant tautology, since shit's ass isn't contradictive, hence no oxymoron?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:41 pm

I think he meant what he said?