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To: softwarecreator
"The Last Man on Earth", starring Vincent Price. Based on the book "I Legend". Remade as "The Omega Man".

Have you read the original story, I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson? Great story and it would make a fabulous movie done straight. Both Last Man On Earth and Omega Man are clearly classics, in their own way (Neville in the thater reciting all of the lines from Woodstock is one of the great post apocalyptic scenes ever).

Ahnuld (the guvinator) was scheduled to do yet another version in the run up to his political career then Will Smith was tagged, but it's now in develpment hell.

Ah well.

By the way, Matheson is a great SF/horror writer. He wrote some of the best Twilight Zone episodes and his Trilogy of Terror (three stories as one TV movie with Karen Black) is still very scary.

Take a look at his credits in IMDB. You'll be amazed.

158 posted on 08/15/2005 4:51:54 PM PDT by Phsstpok (There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
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To: Phsstpok
Have you read the original story, I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson?

No.  If I can find it I will though.

his Trilogy of Terror (three stories as one TV movie with Karen Black) is still very scary

I remember this one, she's sitting in the corner with a knife.  One of the better TV horror/thriller movies of the 70's

Take a look at his credits in IMDB. You'll be amazed.

Wow.  You are right.  Impressive body of work.

Thanks for the info.

160 posted on 08/15/2005 5:03:47 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: Phsstpok

I'll vouch for how good I Am Legend is...haven't read it in years, but I surely did like it....Omega Man was a good flick, but not good enough interpretation of it.


177 posted on 08/15/2005 10:41:15 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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