The island of Manhattan - Ground Zero for the epidemic - has long since been quarantined, all its bridges and tunnels dynamited.
Alas, viruses mutate, and this one developed a deadly strain, killing most humans outright and turning the rest into light-phobic zombies who only come out at night.
Manhattan, and indeed the world, has been emptied of humanity by a man-made virus that was supposed to cure cancer.
There's not a person in sight anywhere - except Robert Neville, who travels, when the sun is highest in the sky, to the South Street Seaport, to broadcast the same message he's been broadcasting for almost three years: "If anyone is out there, I can provide food, shelter, security. Times Square is prowled by lions rather than tourists. Tree roots have buckled the pavement the weeds on 5th Avenue are plentiful enough to support whole herds of deer. "We thought, 'Hey, what movies would it be fun to have up on the screen when the plague hit?'" Lawrence recalled, adding that he recently saw Goldsman, who revealed the studio never gave them clearance to use the combined logo (watch the full interview below).Īlthough Lawrence doesn't remember where the logo came from, it appears to be based on the one from DC Comics' Superman/Batman series, which debuted in 2003.ĭirected by Zack Snyder, the real Batman v Superman opens March 25, 2016.Smith races around an eerily vacant N.Y.C., where he can hunt wild deer grazing on weeds growing in the middle of 5th Avenue. He added that, if his memory served, Christopher Nolan initially was going to make Troy and Wolfgang Peterson was supposed to do Batman/Superman. "The reason that it was there is that the producer and writer of I Am Legend, Akiva Goldsman, actually wrote an early, early ," the director said. Speaking with Lawrence about The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, opening today nationwide, Collider used the opportunity to asks about the origins of that seven-year-old Easter egg.
is filming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which just so happens to have a logo very similar to the one seen in that Will Smith vehicle. Sure, it was a movie poster appearing in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend, but it was there. In 2007, audiences were treated to the first look at a World's Finest-like team-up on the big screen.
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