Warner Bros. fast-tracks Legend

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By Joshua Tyler Sep 14, 2005, 14:49 GMT

Good news today from Warner Bros, ‘Constantine’ director Francis Lawrence has been tapped to direct the film ‘I Am Legend’.

‘Legend’ is a huge sci-fi project that’s been floating around the studio for nearly a decade, with different directors and actors attached to it. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, Will Smith, and Michael Bay have all at one point been involved in trying to get the Mark Protosevich to the screen. Finally, after years of stutter starts, it looks like the project is finally moving. Warner Bros. is determined to put the long-in-waiting adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel on the fast-track.

The script is a fantastic blend of genres, mixing vampires with post-apocalyptic fiction in a deeply moving, emotional, dark, fantasy tale. Set in Los Angeles in the aftermath of a biological war, ‘I Am Legend’ focuses on a single survivor in a desperate battle against a world of nocturnal, vicious, blood-lusting mutants.

Variety reports that the film will undergo a few rewrites under the direction of Lawrence before hitting production. He’ll have to work fast though, since they’re eyeing a 2006 start date.

It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Richard Matheson’s book has been adapted for the screen. You might remember Charlton Heston’s take ‘The Omega Man', and before that Vincent Price did it in ‘The Last Man on Earth’. But Protosevich’s script takes that story to an entirely new, more powerful level. Done right, ‘I Am Legend’ could easily be one of the best films of 2007.

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