Atop a windy mountain, let’s take a look at the many iterations of I Am Legend and how the protagonist changes from a self-reliant average guy to a highly credentialed agent of the State and at the same time becomes increasingly incapable of seeing his own errors as each subsequent film adaptation strays further away from the point of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel.
This is the janky YouTube-approved edit. The superior version is over at Rumble. https://rumble.com/v3ytdpi-i-am-legend-70-years-of-mutation.html
And here’s a link to the unproduced Mark Protosevich script I mention near the end.
I_Am_Legend.pdf (thescriptsavant.com)
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00:00 Intro
01:20 I Am Legend 1954
03:00 Last Man on Earth 1964
08:30 Omega Man 1971
12:44 I Am Legend 2007
18:09 Here and Now