![]() ![]() In other words, says Smith, ”we took a big hint from Tom Hanks in Cast Away. We desperately had to get in there and figure out how to make it riveting.” That took work: improvising scenes, reintroducing elements from Protosevich’s earlier script (the scribe shares credit with Goldsman on the finished film), meeting with experts on infectious diseases and solitary confinement, and exploring earlier films in which an isolated soul struggles to survive. Entire books have been written about what, exactly, the vampires in I Am Legend symbolize. ”It’s a $100 million-plus movie where the lead doesn’t talk for the first hour,” says Smith. The actor dug it enough to come back, even if he felt the writing wasn’t quite there yet. By Christmas 2005, he had a script and sent it to Smith, for whom he had co-written I, Robot. Dr Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the sole remaining human inhabitant of New York City after a man-made virus, born out of a revolutionary. Goldsman, a Big Apple native, felt the new setting lent it some timely resonance and differentiated it from its predecessors. Very quickly, the duo hit upon a big idea: relocating the tale from Los Angeles to New York. ![]() Confident in Goldsman and eager to stay in business with Lawrence, Warner Bros.
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