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3. The Last Man on Earth The recent I Am Legend starring Will Smith is based on the 1954 novella of the same name by Richard Matheson, but it's actually the fourth time the story has been adapted for the big screen. (Matheson purists should...

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...as the star of an adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name. Often surprising in its focus... In I AM LEGEND, Will Smith joins the ranks of Vincent Price (in 1964's THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) and Charlton Heston (in 1971's...

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...activity). The movie, based on the 1954 Richard Matheson book and starring Will Smith, laid out a vision of New York City almost completely wiped out of humans after the spread of a virus (thanks a lot, Emma Thompson!). The movie left us...

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...the Rings: Return of the King" in 2003, the studio said. Smith, 39, plays a military virologist who has survived a human-made virus that apparently killed everyone else on the planet. Francis Lawrence directed the film, working from an...

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...elements that made Matheson's story immortal. Not much to it: In 2012, rifle-toting former military virologist Robert Neville (Smith) and his German shepherd wander an empty Manhattan by day, and lock themselves into his fortified house...

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...Matheson We examine the film work of the cult novelist/screenwriter. This week, Will Smith plays a guy who discovers he's the last man on earth in I Am Legend. So it's a good time to take a look at the movie work of Richard Matheson,...

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...theaters.) "I Am Legend," the third major film made from Richard Matheson's 1954 sci-fi novel, gives us lots of Will Smith and lots of industrial-strength special effects, and if that's what you want, the movie delivers. Smith does...

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...novel, which previously inspired "The Omega Man." Will Smith plays Army doctor Robert Neville, who is immune to a viral plague that turns the world's population into brain-dead savages. Online buzz: Purists fear changes, including a...

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