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This month is like exhibit A for Hollywood's propensity to churn out sequels that nobody asked for. You've got Journey 2, opening today. And then next week, there's Ghost Rider 2, in which Nic Cage tries to "improve" upon the first flaming-skull motorcycle movie. More »
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We've all seen the predictions — both fictional and pseudoarcheological — that the world will end in 2012. But while some of science fiction's predictions for the year 2012 are apocalyptic, some are merely disastrous — and a few are downright upbeat. Let's see what triumphs and tribulations science fiction says we can look forward to in the coming year. More »
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Here is video proof that I Am Legend would have been a lot better with practical monsters. Watch this makeup test for an I Am Legend plague zombie, that the film-makers passed over in favor of a CG army. More »
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In space, nobody can hear you freestyle. But that hasn't stopped some of hip-hop's greatest legends from appearing in some classic science fiction and fantasy movies. From battling killer sharks to fighting off ghosts on Mars, some of our favorite rappers have also become some of our favorite SF heroes. More »
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The first film version of Richard Matheson's zombie apocalypse short story "I Am Legend" came out in 1964 and was called The Last Man on Earth. Luckily it's in the public domain, so you can watch it right here. More »
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We caught our first glimpse of The Thing's creepy Arctic horror this past weekend. But it's just one of a half-dozen movie prequels in the pipeline. Past experience shows many of these prequels may suck. Here's your prequel suckitude forecast. More »
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The Twilight Zone left an indelible mark on pop culture, but it's been years since we made a new journey to that dimension of sight and sound. Peter Hall argues that we need Rod Serling's vision now more than ever. More »
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When you look at Jerad S. Marantz's resume, it's packed with films you can barely remember watching. Jonah Hex, I Am Legend, Clash Of The Titans, Bedtime Stories, Percy Jackson, Nightmare On Elm St....but his concept art is unforgettable. More »
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We're getting to the end of our survey, but 1954 is a ridiculously robust year, with Ray Bradbury delivering Fahrenheit 451, Richard Matheson offering I Am Legend, and Japan unleashing Godzilla: King of the Monsters. More »
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The citizens of Fringe's alternate universe could have bigger problems to cope with than just whatever William Bell has cooked up. They may have a plague-zombie outbreak on their hands, if an alternate-universe movie marquee is any indication. More »
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To celebrate the season of egg-dyeing and bonnet-wearing, we decided to pull together all of our favorite movie Easter Eggs for your holiday enjoyment. Here's hoping the Easter Bunny brings you a Sumatran Rat Monkey in your basket. More »
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We've all had our hearts broken by movie and television versions of our favorite book characters. You know the adaptation will never be as good as the beloved original, but sometimes it's hideously worse. Here are the absolute worst offenders. More »
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Joel Silver's long-running obsession with making a movie of DC Comics' classic WWII hero Sgt. Rock is apparently moving closer to coming true, with a screenwriter and director rumored to be involved... and revamping the character into a science-fiction actioneer? More »
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We've been dreading the mooted I Am Legend prequel reteaming Will Smith and director Francis Lawrence. So we're delighted to hear the duo are instead working on a fantastical movie with a script by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Truman Show). More »
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More details about the planned movie version of Britain's Primeval have come out, and it's being described as Jurassic Park meets Lost. As imagined by Akiva Goldsman (I, Robot, Fringe, Batman And Robin). Yay? More »
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How would Uwe's I Am Legend differ? First, super-mutants are just guys in white body paint. Second of all, they get buzz-sawn in half. Thirdly, mad scientist is Udo Kier. Fourthly, crazy awesomeness! More »
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The writer-director team behind I Am Legend is making a science fiction movie out of The World Without Us, the hit non-fiction book about the ultimate post-apocalyptic world: one without humans altogether. More »
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It may be March, but that still counts as the start of the year, right? Let's take a look at what movies, television, and books have predicted for us in the days to come...
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If there's one thing I Am Legend didn't need, it's a prequel. And if there's anything I Am Legend needed even less, it's a sequel. Nevertheless, rumor has it the studio has rejected Will Smith's plan to make a prequel about his character, Robert Neville, dealing with the beginnings of the deadly plague. Instead, the studio wants a sequel — starring Smith, presumably. And because (spoiler alert) the studio demanded a different ending to the movie than the one originally filmed, that could be a tricky task. [Ain't It Cool News] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5098505&view=rss&microfeed=true I Am Legend the prequel is now official. Warner Brothers has greenlit the new movie and is ready to roll with the old cast intact (Will Smith). Francis Lawrence will return as the director. My question is are people really going to be interested in the "how we made vampires" story line? I'd rather see more Robert Neville all crazed and traveling the Earth Mad Max style. But that's just me. [Variety] More »
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An overload of I Am Legend collectors items is about to hit shelves in one colossal box set. But I ask you, who really needs two versions of the film, hours of additional content, the already-seen alternate ending, four comics, 12 deleted scenes, commentary, extras, Will Smith's spoofy off-screen antics, a 44-page concept sketch book, a lenticular lucite commemorative piece, and six collectible art cards showing different devastated cities (which I actually think is cool)? The package hits stands December 9th, just in time for Christmas. I shudder to think what The Dark Knight box set will contain. [DVD Active] More »
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After the tremendous success of I Am Legend, starring Will Smith as a scientist in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-plague-ravaged New York, Warners is going to follow up with a prequel. Director Francis Lawrence confirmed to Shock Til You Drop that the movie would star Smith, and would take place before the rise of the plague that empties out Manhattan and turns it into a lovely park full of greenery and deer. But what, exactly, will be the plot of this prequel? Lawrence said, "We're trying to figure out some ideas for it." It's not too late for us to influence his decision! So vote now in our poll for what the I Am Legend prequel should be all about. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031648&view=rss&microfeed=true The 34th Annual Saturn Awards honored J.J. Abram's New York monster movie Cloverfield with best scifi picture, and his TV show Lost also won in the television category. The only award I question is Will Smith's best actor award for I Am Legend — it should have gone to Bumblebee for portraying so much emotion without saying a word through most of Transformers. View the rest of the winners at the Saturn Awards page. More »
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There are many valid complaints about last year's movie version of I Am Legend - chief amongst them being that Will Smith is no Charlton Heston, I think we'd all agree. But it appears that the medical science of the movie is much more valid than you may have initially thought, if you ignore that whole "People dying off and/or turning into zombies" thing. At least, according to the man who pioneered said science. More »
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Why is Hollywood trying to poison everybody against posthumans? Whenever you see someone going beyond standard-issue humanity in movies or TV, it's portrayed as monstrous and evil. Whether it's cyborgs, mutants or humans hacking their bodies, Hollywood exercises its anti-posthuman agenda. Meanwhile, novels have been celebrating the customizers and reinventers for years now. What can we do to derail Hollywood's insidious campaign against our posthuman brothers and sisters? The first step is understanding where it comes from. More »
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Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to R.L. Stine's teen book series Goosebumps. But if they want the movie to be a huge success with the free-spending twenty-somethings who grew up on the series, Columbia and producer Neal Moritz (I Am Legend, Prom Night) should focus on the books' more science fictional story-lines instead of the spooky house and ghosts-in-the-attic ones. A list of the more scifi friendly Goosebumps (with book spoilers) after the jump. More »
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Last-minute problems may be plaguing the drunken superhero comedy Hancock. This Saturday Will Smith was seen in full Hancock gear filming last-minute reshoots in Times Square. How is this possible for a movie set to release on July 2? Sadly, it's not a good sign for our leather-clad hero. More details on the reshoot, set pictures and more Hancock troubles after the jump. More »
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Science fiction thrives on suspension of disbelief. When you watch a movie or read a book about space battles and time travel, you're actively cooperating with the story to make it hold up. But when the story takes a sudden, nonsensical swerve, your suspsension of disbelief can turn into a savage retaliation. Here's our guide to the weirdest and least sensible plot twists (Ape Lincoln?!) from scifi books, movies, TV and comics. Major spoilers ahead, naturally. More »
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We've been curious to see the original ending of Will Smith's I Am Legend ever since we heard it was reshot last fall, and the sickly-sweet ending we saw in theaters only made us more curious. Now at last, the secret original ending turned up online a few days ago, thanks to the impending March 18 release of the Legend on DVD. Sadly, it's not much better than the theatrical version — but at least it doesn't suddenly turn into M. Night Shyamalan's Village. Which version do you prefer? More »
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Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it's also yet another horrible future where science turns ordinary people into the walking (almost) dead. Click through for stills and details. More »
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Movies like The Mist, I Am Legend, and Cloverfield depict aliens, monsters from the briny deep, and superviruses hell-bent on driving people out of the cities and off the face of the Earth. But what would really happen tomorrow if everyone suddenly vanished today? A new series on the History Channel called Life After People asks that exact question, and while it looks a bit like 12 Monkeys, it also looks utterly fascinating. Plus their tagline "Welcome To Earth, Population: 0" actually sounds like a great scifi series. Catch it this coming Monday on The History Channel. More »
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We haven't mentioned much about Will Smith's upcoming summer movie Hancock, where he plays an alcoholic, homeless superhero who does a hell of a lot more collateral damage than he does good. Remember (shudder) when Superman gets exposed to that weird fake Kryptonite from Richard Pryor in Superman III and goes on a drinking binge? That's the character Hancock. Eventually Hancock gets cleaned up and put back on his feet by publicist Jason Bateman, and then he promptly has an affair with Bateman's wife, Charlize Theron. Hey, if you're going to be a super-dick, why not do it in style? Check out the trailer above and some more tidbits about the film inside. More »
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Lately, it seems like we see civilization crushed into rubble every other week. In the past year or so, we had 28 Weeks Later, I Am Legend, Resident Evil: Extinction, Sunshine, Children of Men, and Nightmare City 2035. Back in 2000, the only ruined-Earth film was Battlefield Earth. Why the sudden rise? It's not because we want to be scared, it's because we find post-apocalyptic movies reassuring. More »
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Warner Bros. has bought the rights to do an unlikely sequel to I Am Legend from original author Richard Matheson. Will Smith probably won't be back, since he just said he mistakenly did Men In Black II and Bad Boys II "out of fear." So it'll have, what? Alice Braga hanging out in New England? [ShockTillYouDrop] More »
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How does I Am Legend stack up against other post-apocalyptic movies? We compared fourteen movies to see whether they contain key elements of the post-apocalypse, such as pee-drinking and cannibalism. The folks at io9 have made you a handy chart showing the most (and least) hardcore post-apocalyptic films of all time, after the jump. More »
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Which visions of the future made us crave Lasik surgery the most in 2007? Hint: they involved wimpy cyborgs, blah parasites, boring plagues and "time-famine." Click through to read our picks for the most underwhelming futures of the past year, in both scifi and futurist predictions. More »
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There's a right way and a wrong way to destroy New York, according to an expert quoted in the New York Times. The right way (like I Am Legend) is tasteful and pays homage to the city even as you crash it into rubble. The wrong way (like Cloverfield) is exploitative and brings up memories of 9/11. What on Earth is James Sanders smoking? More »
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The original concept art for I Am Legend was much bleaker and more post-apocalyptic than the movie's final look. Production designer David Lazan talked to us about why he and director Francis Lawrence opted for a more gorgeous back-to-nature look. Our interview, plus a concept art gallery, after the jump. More »
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The Ninja from AskANinja.com slipped steathily into the shadowy corners of Los Angeles for a live show, and io9 pinned him down for a few questions. Check out the Q&A that cost us an arm and a leg (literally), and find out about the Ninja's secret movie plans, after the jump. More »
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We already told you about the Superman Vs. Batman in-joke movie billboard that makes an appearance in I Am Legend, and there's a grainy shot of it above. When you watch this in a crowded theater you can hear the fangasm of recognition pass through the audience when this image slides by, and now various fan sites seem to think this means that the project is back on. It ain't, and for good reason: no one can trump Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. So, we beg of you comic book fans. Don't stir this rumor up again, lest we turn science against you. [Comic Book Movie] More »
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