Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend

[David Flin]

And with this article, we come to an end of this series by @RyanF . I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ryan for his effort in producing a superlative and informative series.

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[The Red]

Great article. I was aware of the original ending but didn't know it had actually featured with the home video release. Watched the Will Smith version for the first time in ages recently and the theatrical ending was still there and still doesn't work as well as the original. Not sure if the film embracing its original ending is novel or just another sign of Hollywood cannibalising itself for ideas to the extent of making sequels out of deleted scenes.

 

[Thande]

An excellent idea for an article series and several examples I wasn't previously aware of.

 

[Charles EP M.]

Sounds like it's a good thing the film didn't happen, we got a bunch of good films like Gladiator OTL and do we see Arnie pulling off a wordless depression for 30m?

 

[The Red]

Sounds like it's a good thing the film didn't happen, we got a bunch of good films like Gladiator OTL and do we see Arnie pulling off a wordless depression for 30m?

He certainly pulled it off in the original Terminator, arguably his best performance, but it does beg the question whether audiences would think they were watching a stealth addition to the Terminator series with the T-800 battling vampires in the post-apocalyptic setting.