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Originally Posted by Comicboy
Nope, but I intend to now. Thanks Loco! There is a movie coming out based on this I gather from what I've read. I also read Omega Man was very loosely based on this but it was butchered.
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Yeah, pick up this book ASAP!!! Here is some nice trivia:
* 1968: Night of the Living Dead directed and written by George Romero, who acknowledges the initial idea for which was drawn from Matheson's book. The movie has spawned numerous sequels and clones.
* 1984: Night of the Comet concerns the survivors of a mass extinction resulting from a comet's close sweep to Earth. The survivors are split between those unaffected by the comet and those who have been transformed into murderous, zombie-like creatures.
* 2002: 28 Days Later, by Trainspotting director Danny Boyle which takes the zombie movie template established by Romero. However, 28 Days Later does not feature the traditional slow-moving reanimated corpses of most zombie films, but does feature outright murderous, angry hordes of what are essentially diseased, but not undead, people; the "infected" in Boyle's film share such qualities with the vampires in I Am Legend.
* 2007: I Am Legend is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Will Smith. The screenplay was initially drafted by Mark Protosevich and has been revised by Akiva Goldsman. I Am Legend began filming in late September 2006 and is slated for a November 21, 2007 release.
