Will Smith has more to worry about than just being alone in I AM LEGEND(2007).
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Francis Lawrence Talks I AM LEGEND

The director sat down with Ryan Rotten after holding his press conference for I AM LEGEND at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. In the interview, Lawrence discussed his thoughts after watching the first two adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel, the 50's THE LAST MAN ON EARTH and 71's THE OMEGA MAN, as well as other topics about the production and his future project plans.

Here's a sample:

Shock: We've heard that you tried to portray the infected through practical means. Did you find something comfortable in doing them CGI?
Lawrence: We had a change. Originally, I might have wanted to do them digitally, but it was a very expensive ordeal so we decided to do everything live. We hired all of these actors, dancers and stunt people, put them through a boot camp, shaved all of their heads and put them through the makeup process. But what we found after literally one day of shooting is that real people couldn't have the abandon we needed. There was going to have to be some digital augmentation anyway because there were attributes we needed to see - their jaws distending, hyperventilating because their metabolism is all jacked up. These are things people can't do. We said, We just have to do these digitally. You get this different feeling from our creations because of their extended jaws and rapid breathing, their skin is sorta transparent. You get these subtle differences that I really liked.

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I AM LEGEND will hit IMAX and standard theaters Dec. 14, 2007.