It kept the setup, the protagonist’s name, and almost literally nothing else. The Omega Man wasn’t really interested in being an I Am Legend adaptation in the first place. It lost the psychological focus that made the book so compelling, however, and put no more effort into scaring the audience than the average 1950’s atomic bug movie. The Last Man on Earth came closest in terms of premise and plot, in that it wasn’t ashamed to call its monsters vampires, and that it preserved the punchline that accounts for the novel’s title. Much like those defining documents of 19th-century horror fiction, I Am Legend has been cinematically adapted three times now without it ever seeming to occur to anyone to take an honest stab at filming the story that Matheson wrote. At this point, I think we can safely admit Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend to the club alongside Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr.
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