Watched lots of movies over the weekend.
I Am Legend ( 2007 )
Will Smith - Robert Neville
Alica Braga - Anna
Charlie Tahan - Ethan
Willow Smith - Marley
Salli - Richardson Whitfield - Zoe
Will Smith's character's name is Robert Neville, the survivor of a virus that has wiped out most of the population of the earth, including his family. The virus transforms all that contact it into vampires, ("vampires" is not used in the movie though). In the book, Neville survives due to his immunity to the virus. A temporary cure is created, allowing living people who have the virus to walk in daylight, and even eventually achieve a normal lifestyle. To them, Neville is on par with the vampire's who strive to kill the new societies founders. The book's location is Los Angeles, but the movie takes place in New York. As far as Robert knows, he is the only uninfected person in New York, and possibly the world. He spends his time trying to make contact with other survivors, working on a cure to the virus using his blood and, of course, killing vampires, dead and living.
I Am Legend is the third movie based on the 1954 Richard Matheson book of the same name (Matheson also penned Nightmare at 20,000 feet.) The first movie was called "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price, it was filmed in Italy in 1964.
This second movie based on the book was the 1971 classic movie "The Omega Man" that starred Charlton Heston as Robert Neville and Anthony Zerbe as Matthias the leader of the infected people that do their best to kill Charlton Heston due to the fact that Neville represents everything wrong that used to be before the virus.
I read that this is a serious attempt to make a good movie based on the book, and that you will most likely not see any reference to Omega Man or The Last Man on Earth.
Bedtime Stories ( 2008 )
Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson
Keri Russell - Jill
Guy Pearse - Kendall
Russell Brand - Mickey
Courtney Cox - Wendy
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The Wedding Date ( 2005 )
Debra Messing - Kat Ellis
Dermot Mulroney - Nick Mercer
Amy Adams - Amy
Jack Davenport - Edward Fletcher - Wooten
"The Wedding Date" centers around Kat Ellis (Messing), who returns to her parents' London home for her sister's wedding. Afraid of confronting her ex-fiancé, who dumped her two years before, she hires a top-drawer male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her new boyfriend.
Surrogates ( 2009 )
Bruce Willis - Tom Greer
Radha Mitchell - Peters
The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines re-team to explore a future in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions of their human counterparts. Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent who enlists the aid of his own surrogate to investigate the murder of the genius college student who invented the surrogates. As the case grows more complicated, however, the withdrawn detective discovers that in order to actually catch the killer he will have to venture outside the safety of his own home for the first time in many years, and enlists the aid of another agent (Radha Mitchell) in tracking his target down. Jonathan Mostow directs co-screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato's adaptation of the graphic novel by author Robert Venditti and illustrator Brett Weldele.
Will Smith - Robert Neville
Alica Braga - Anna
Charlie Tahan - Ethan
Willow Smith - Marley
Salli - Richardson Whitfield - Zoe
Will Smith's character's name is Robert Neville, the survivor of a virus that has wiped out most of the population of the earth, including his family. The virus transforms all that contact it into vampires, ("vampires" is not used in the movie though). In the book, Neville survives due to his immunity to the virus. A temporary cure is created, allowing living people who have the virus to walk in daylight, and even eventually achieve a normal lifestyle. To them, Neville is on par with the vampire's who strive to kill the new societies founders. The book's location is Los Angeles, but the movie takes place in New York. As far as Robert knows, he is the only uninfected person in New York, and possibly the world. He spends his time trying to make contact with other survivors, working on a cure to the virus using his blood and, of course, killing vampires, dead and living.
I Am Legend is the third movie based on the 1954 Richard Matheson book of the same name (Matheson also penned Nightmare at 20,000 feet.) The first movie was called "The Last Man on Earth" starring Vincent Price, it was filmed in Italy in 1964.
This second movie based on the book was the 1971 classic movie "The Omega Man" that starred Charlton Heston as Robert Neville and Anthony Zerbe as Matthias the leader of the infected people that do their best to kill Charlton Heston due to the fact that Neville represents everything wrong that used to be before the virus.
I read that this is a serious attempt to make a good movie based on the book, and that you will most likely not see any reference to Omega Man or The Last Man on Earth.
Bedtime Stories ( 2008 )Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson
Keri Russell - Jill
Guy Pearse - Kendall
Russell Brand - Mickey
Courtney Cox - Wendy
Debra Messing - Kat Ellis
Dermot Mulroney - Nick Mercer
Amy Adams - Amy
Jack Davenport - Edward Fletcher - Wooten
"The Wedding Date" centers around Kat Ellis (Messing), who returns to her parents' London home for her sister's wedding. Afraid of confronting her ex-fiancé, who dumped her two years before, she hires a top-drawer male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her new boyfriend.
Bruce Willis - Tom Greer
Radha Mitchell - Peters
The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines re-team to explore a future in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions of their human counterparts. Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent who enlists the aid of his own surrogate to investigate the murder of the genius college student who invented the surrogates. As the case grows more complicated, however, the withdrawn detective discovers that in order to actually catch the killer he will have to venture outside the safety of his own home for the first time in many years, and enlists the aid of another agent (Radha Mitchell) in tracking his target down. Jonathan Mostow directs co-screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato's adaptation of the graphic novel by author Robert Venditti and illustrator Brett Weldele.
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