“I Am Legend” made a killing at the box office upon its release in 2007, pulling in nearly $600 million with its loose adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel.
The story, ostensibly of a virologist navigating the world after a pandemic has turned most of humanity into a race of blood-feasting mutants, is less about vampires or viral outbreaks than it is about loneliness, and nothing demonstrates this better than the uncanny, feral monsters antagonizing star Will Smith.While the film performed well, the motion-captured CGI monsters, known as Darkseekers, are one of the most complained-about elements of…The post What the I Am Legend Monsters Originally Looked Like appeared first on /Film.
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