The orriginal movie, The Omega Man (1971), starred Charlton Heston as the doctor who had an experimental cure for the biological war. In the remake, I Am Legend, it was Will Smith who played the doctor. It really wasn't too clear if it was a war or an accident since they referred to NYC as ground zero. In the orginal movie, the people that survived came out as night, but did not have the zombie like attitudes. They appeared to have a leader (a news reporter) who banned them together and seemed to have a goal to destroy Charton Heston. And in the original, Charlton Heston dies as well at the end of the movie after being caught outside his home. The movie, I Am Legend, was a fairly good movie for entertainment, and in most movies now starring Will Smith (who always shows off his body), its almost a guaranteed box office winner. Some of my friends thought that he should have lived at the end of the movie, but I felt that it followed the original movie's plot and thus he had to die. If he lived, would it then be called something else besides I Am Legend?