

After retreating into the lab and sealing themselves in a plexiglass chamber they discover that Neville’s latest attempt at a cure is working, the female Darkseeker in the room is reverting to a more human form. Unfortunately, in taking Neville home to recover Anna left a trail for the Darkseekers to follow and they attack the house. Neville believes the camp does not exist and is doubtful of their plan to make it there. Neville is quickly overwhelmed by the infected and nearly killed, but is rescued by two immune survivors who had heard his transmissions and sought him out.Īfter taking him home and treating his wounds the pair, Anna and a young boy Ethan, tell him they are making their way to a survivors camp in Vermont. After Sam is bitten by one of the infected and Neville is forced to put him down, Neville goes on a rampage attacking a band of the Darkseekers with his Ford Expedition equipped with UV lights. Each day he broadcasts a message over and over from the same location in the hopes that someone else is out there and will hear him. To facilitate his research Neville has been capturing the infected to test his cures which prove to be ineffective. His home has been turned into a fortress and his basement a lab where he works on the cure. Smith and his German shepherd Sam spend the first bit of the film just surviving. The virus mutated those that lived into vampire-like creatures: they hate the light, they are very primal and they enjoy feasting on living flesh. The only problem is the 588 million infected, the Darkseekers. He spends the next three years alone (save his canine companion) working on a cure for the virus using his own immune blood. As a scientist Neville was rushing to find a cure when Manhattan was evacuated and essentially shut down with Nevelle still on the island. Will Smith took on that challenge with 2007’s post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film, “I Am Legend.” Smith plays Robert Neville who is the last (as far as he knows) living human due to an incurable, man-made virus. As far as you know, you are the only living human left due to your immunity to the virus, and it’s up to you to find a cure.Ĭarrying a movie mostly by yourself is never easy, ask Tom Hanks (see Cast Away). It’s the end of the world due to a man-made virus that turns humans into vampire-like creatures.
