They were a combination of modern dancers, stunt people, acrobatic people, and parkour people. There was a very intensive focus and search on finding the creatures, who ended up being called “the infected” in the final script. You don’t realize how large the cast actually is. Kathleen Chopin (casting director): From a superficial glance, you would think there are really very few people in the film. “It was lost, the grace of some of the dancers.” Village Roadshow Pictures (Will Smith and director Francis Lawrence declined to participate.) Welcome to New York On the movie’s 15th anniversary, Inverse presents an oral history of I Am Legend according to the people who made the film. “It was a logistical nightmare but a pleasure to be on,” recalls producer Michael Tadross.
Robert Neville, who is immune to the virus that wiped out billions of people, roams around a deserted Times Square and beyond, rifle on shoulder, ready to shoot any of “the infected.” Manhattan had never looked so empty, even if behind the scenes the set was swarmed by everyone from New York’s governor to the city’s police commissioner. “Why not just shoot it on the streets of New York?”Ī gargantuan operation therefore began in order to present the city that never sleeps as the city that had gone to sleep. “And eventually, that movie did come out.”īased on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name, I Am Legend remains the definitive retelling (two other movie adaptations exist) thanks to Will Smith’s memorable performance (in interviews at the time, he compared the role to Gladiator and Forrest Gump) and the daring decision to relocate the story from Los Angeles to New York and film largely on location. It’s going to happen, guys,’” visual effects producer Mike Chambers tells Inverse. “We kept saying, ‘This is going to happen. Unsurprisingly, the team behind I Am Legend was more confident about the latter.
Not only did the Will Smith tour de force depict Times Square emptied by a global epidemic more than a decade before the exact same thing happened IRL, but it also managed to predict DC’s plans for a Batman versus Superman live-action movie.
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