The alternative ending to I AM LEGEND is worse than the theatrical one!!!
See it after the jump and be amazed at just how even more crap the ending could have been. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the film.
I love Richard Matheson's I Am Legend novel. Matheson is one of my favourite sci-fi writers and with his most famous tale he brought together such a clever plot, a great lead character and such open-ended themes and ideas that it's impossible for the book not to remain with you for months after you've read the last sentence. He has a great ending in the book. Very dark, very shocking and one without hope for mankind and human nature. I mean essentially that's the book is about, hope in a hopeless situation and what happens to us when that hope slowly drifts away day after day. All previous adaptations of I Am Legend, including the Charlton Heston 70's version have come a little unstuck with how to end the tale of the last man on Earth. For some reason, I'm continually baffled as to why they don't use the powerful ending from the novel and although I do like how dark both The Omega Man and the Francis Lawrence film ended, I still they were rushed and uncomplicated endings when they didn't know how to finish the picture.
Just horrible and contradicts everything the book and film had been building towards.
These vampires had no soul. No feelings. No remorse. They don't have loved one's. They are to be killed before they kill you.
And weren't all the bridges destroyed?
And an adaptation of I Am Legend where Robert Neville survives. PLEASE. That's going completely against the main theme of Matheson's book, what a horrible ending.