I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It is the third feature film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name, following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man. Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a man-made virus originally created to cure cancer. He works to create a remedy while defending himself against humans mutated by the virus. Warner Bros. began developing I Am Legend in 1994, and various actors and directors were attached to the project,... though production was delayed due to budgetary concerns related to the script. Production began in 2006 in New York City, filming mainly on location in the city, including a $5 million scene at the Brooklyn Bridge, the most expensive scene ever filmed in the city at the time. I Am Legend was released on December 14, 2007 in the United States and Canada, and opened to the largest ever box office for a non-Christmas film released in the U.S. in December.
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| Release date: | December 12, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Francis Lawrence |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Heyman, Akiva Goldsman, Neal H. Moritz, James Lassiter |
| Editor: | Wayne Wahrman |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | Andrew Lesnie |
| Screenplay by: | Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman, Joyce Hooper Corrington, John William Corrington |
| Estimated budget: | $159,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | I Am Legend |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller, Disaster |