In 1964 it was adapted as The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price, in 1971 as The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston, and the most well-known was 2007’s blockbuster I Am Legend starring Will Smith. Matheson’s masterpiece has been adapted from the page to the screen three times, or four, if you include the awful 2007 straight-to-DVD I Am Omega, produced by makeshift film studio The Asylum (I don’t). When I say that Richard Matheson’s 1954 classic sci-fi vampire apocalypse novel I Am Legend (given the Vampire Novel of the Century award in 2012 by the Horror Writers Association) deserves a faithful film adaptation, take it with a grain of salt–it’s one of my favorite books.
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