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Warner Brothers has officially confirmed today that a prequel to I Am Legend is currently in development. We first mentioned this back in July, when director Francis Lawrence confirmed that they've been working on ideas for a prequel. Will Smith will reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, with Lawrence returning to direct. The script is being written by D.B. Weiss, an up-and-coming writer with...
It is official, Warner Bros has greenlit a prequel to I Am Legend. Will Smith has signed on to reprise his role as Robert Neville, and Francis Lawrence has returned as director. Looks like Lawrence won’t be finding time to work on Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor anytime soon. According to Variety, D.B. Weiss (The Game) is [...]
Shelf space here at BBB&B headquarters is sparse. With this column, I get a chance to clear off a major portion of it with only three books. To say these tomes are a bit big is an understatement. Two of them are pulp collections with no crossover with the fantastic THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK [...]
Wrapping up the Indies Preview Review for October! IDW Publishing Richard Matheson's Hell House SC By Richard Matheson, Ian Edginton (W) Simon Fraser (A & C) To help Rudolph Deutsch forestall his death and learn the secrets of the afterlife, a team of experts must survive a night in Belasco House, or as the locals call it, Hell House. Exerting its dark influence on the group as they unearth the wretched...
Raymond Chandler. Charles Bukowski. Walter Mosley. Meh. Los Angeles’ true literary legacy is the zombie/vampire/supervirus/apocalypse genre, which novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson kick-started with his 1954 novel I Am Legend. Matheson’s story, set in 1970’s Los Angeles, follows the trials and tribulations of the seemingly sole survivor of a plague that transforms humans into vampires. The...
As I’ve said before, Richard Matheson has probably influenced more writers than any other author alive. Three generations of men and women have borrowed both his singular storytelling skills and the peerless ways he structures his fiction, short and long alike. Barry Hoffman at Gauntlet Press has created a unique Matheson library of TV [...]
I have been irritated enough by discussions as to why more people under 30 40 haven't won Hugos, that I have spent a few hours composing a list of people who you might think had won Hugos, or perhaps ought...
Last year, Will Smith starred in an update of Richard Matheson's future shock novel I Am Novel, which became the second-biggest non-sequel of 2007, and ever since then, there's been a lot of rumors... Visit Soulfull Vibes for more information
Will we be seeing another Twilight Zone movie in the near future? It sounds like it is a distinct possibility, as Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way recently put out the word that they are looking for script submissions and pitches on a new feature film based on the classic Rod Serling sci-fi series. DiCaprio [...]
Matheson’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel Is Really a Story About Sexual Perversion On the surface Richard Matheson’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man” is about an average man who shrinks one inch every week – and the horrors and challenges he faces as he gets smaller. There are encounters with house cats and spiders, confrontations with angry boys, and the difficulties of feeding and clothing yourself when
When it comes down to it, I’m not still not sure what to think of Richard Kelly as a director. I enjoyed his debut Donnie Darko quite a bit, although with repeat viewings I found that it lost some of its lustre. Southland Tales was, without question, an awkward, incomprehensible mess, but it did have [...]
Because some things you simply need to know. And why should you have no lives and read dozens of websites to know what's what? We're taking this one for the team. Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno is scheduled to hit cinemas on May 15th, 2009. I don't think we need to elaborate further with this [...]
I read Richard Matheson's I Am Legend a couple of years ago and enjoyed it (and have avoided the recent film version largely 'cause I'm sure they'll have changed the brilliant ending, thus making the title meaningless.) A couple of months ago I bought some SF Masterworks in a 3-for-2 offer at Forbidden Planet, and Matheson's 1956 novel The Shrinking Man is the second (after Behold The Man ) I read....
