The Original Plans for Ridley Scott's I Am Legend

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Taking a look at Ridley Scott’s canceled version of I Am Legend, which would have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of Will Smith and featured practical makeup effects for the Darkseekers.

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
1:19 Origins
2:21 Ridley Scott
2:54 Plot
5:10 Hemocytes
6:31 What Went Wrong?
8:01 Original Ending

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39 thoughts on “The Original Plans for Ridley Scott's I Am Legend”

  10. This sounds like the best movie that could have been that you have covered yet! Hopefully someone can take this version of the film and run with it whenever I Am Legend gets remade again in the next 10-20 years. Especially since it keeps closer to the source material with Neville being a regular guy and not a doctor who was already working on the cure.

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  18. i dont remember which version i read for i am legend but i beleive it might've been Protovich's script which had the girl Ahnuld saves betray him to the dark seekers and they take Ahnuld to an underground lair or commune where Ahnuld finds out there are humans still alive and being kept in cages for breeding and feeding. The dark seekers talk throughout the script and they have a leader whose name i forget but they keep calling out Ahnuld's character's name at various times, "Neville". The ending had Ahnuld free the humans including the girl that betrays him and killing that specific nest of dark seekers as Ahnuld leads the survivors to rebuild humanity.

    The script was very action orienated with alot of cliches written into the script. I preferred Smith's version to that script.

    Did you ever read this script?

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  31. I understand wanting to see what would have been. But…

    Was it a faithful adaption? No.
    Did the CGI age well? Not really.

    It’s a slower burn psychological “horror”

    Seeing him slowly lose his humanity. The scenes of him driving through deserted New York streets with that red Mustang. The scene where the vampires set a trap using “Frank” and Nevel quite literally loses his mind. The scene he has to kill his dog, his last living friend – last connection to what the world used to be/ his family.

    I Am Legend created its own way and became a legend itself. It’s a fantastic film that focused less on action.

    The alternate ending is also the canon ending with the new Michael B Jordan film following it. I personally always enjoyed it more than the theatrical ending. Wish they would have somehow mixed the two into one, both endings have parts that are great, and parts that are dull. Could’ve made for a more complete film, imo.

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  36. This movie must definitely existed on the alternate timeline seen on "The Flash". This film could benefit from the William Gibson's Alien 3 comic book adaptation. And I didn't know that the original ending from the 2007 adaptation wasn't liked by test audiences, that ending is so much better and interesting than the final cut. The one thing I like about the Darkseekers from the 2007 adaptation was the hyperventilating breathing, like they have a lot of energy and adreanline flowing in their organism.

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