Matheson was also a prolific screenwriter as well, adapting his short story Duel, into Steven Spielberg’s first feature film the 1971's broad-daylight murder-truck nightmare of the same title, which was the highest rated made-for-TV movie of all-time. Neville has to dispatch these other survivors while trying to find a cure to the disease which has affected them. There are others, who have been turned into zombie/vampires. For me, the book more forcefully drove home the ethical dilemma faced by the apparent sole survivor on earth, Robert Neville of an un-named catastrophe. It spoke to me about being an outsider and feeling completely out of place, as was the protagonist, who was played by Vincent Price in the 1964 movie version, The Last Man on Earth, by Charlton Heston in 1971 movie version, The Omega Man, and, finally, by Will Smith in the 2007 movie version, I Am Legend. It was my first real introduction into science fiction and I instantly became a fan of Matheson. I read his book “ I Am Legend” when I was a very young teenager.
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