ROTTEN TOMATOES: Faked (?) "I Am Legend" Posters Hit the Wire

Faked (?) "I Am Legend" Posters Hit the Wire

by Scott Weinberg | November 30, 2006

Those who are breathlessly anticipating the new-fangled Will Smith rendition of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" should be pretty psyched for about 8 seconds: A brand-new pair of one-sheets have made the scene.

MoviesOnline.ca is the spot that got the posters first. Check 'em out here and here.

Scheduled for release in November of next year, Francis Lawrence's "I Am Legend" will star Will Smith, Gabrielle Union, and Salli Richardson.

Previous versions of the story include "The Last Man on Earth" and "The Omega Man."

UPDATE: We've been informed by folks at Slashfilm that these are fan-generated posters, and NOT the official one-sheets.

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aconline writes:
on Nov 30 2006 06:05 AM

Not too shabby really. If you haven't seen Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, you should. It is the oldest version of this story. It is pretty good. I am going to watch the Omega Man, too before I see this.

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eye_of_the_pyramid writes:
on Nov 30 2006 06:56 AM

Posters look like cheap Photoshops.

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Merlin235 writes:
on Nov 30 2006 07:39 AM

Lame Posters in my opinion. Would have expected a little more than Will and a car.

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photosuperstar writes:
on Nov 30 2006 08:21 AM

Expected more from the posters, give us a real post apocalyptic wasteland. At least it's not a remake, oh yeah, it is.

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MovieSamurai writes:
on Nov 30 2006 09:15 AM

these are pretty cheesy

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Pilgermann writes:
on Nov 30 2006 09:16 AM

Those can't possibly be real! They look like amateur photoshop garbage, especially the second one.

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AlienSeed writes:
on Nov 30 2006 09:34 AM

Those do look like photoshops. I made a poster for Terminator 3 once that turned out looking just like those.

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thibert writes:
on Nov 30 2006 10:31 AM

i highly doubt these are real... both use the same bad picture of smith, and the backgrounds are generic with lame coloring. Also the "NOVEMBER" is too low on the poster, it would be cut off if put in a poster case (I work at a theater)

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cormega writes:
on Nov 30 2006 11:21 AM

In reply to this comment (#849995)
Thank you! I've been saying that these were fake (obviously fake) since they've surfaced. The font is a generic elongated take from the Will Smith's name on the I, ROBOT poster. And why the hell would a movie about the last man in a world of vampires make us focus so much on an effing car not even angled right so Will looks like he's in the same shot?. Okay I'm hungry.

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Defmonkey writes:
on Nov 30 2006 11:41 AM

[b]Spiderwebs?[/b]
Whats up with the spiderwebs on his knees? Both knees have them. And they really do look fake. the face that Willy is giving is quite hilarious. I think somebody should photoshop that with him on the toliet. Because it looks like he's trying to drop a brick.

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alsanali writes:
on Nov 30 2006 12:43 PM

I'd just like to ask everyone who's complaining that this is "Photoshopped" what they think professionals use to make posters?

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LampEft writes:
on Nov 30 2006 01:27 PM

Ummm... whoopee?

Very lame posters, Photoshopped or not. It's a blurry picture of (presumably) Will Smith on a street and in front of a car. These could conceivably be advertising any future Smith movie. Nothing special about them whatsoever. If they were intended to instill any feelings of excited anticipation about the movie, they fail completely.

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Kid_Ikarus writes:
on Nov 30 2006 02:58 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHA the haters were right for once, completely fake. I do agree tho, they did kinda look too boring to be professional. No "bang" whatsoever.

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dagreenman18 writes:
on Nov 30 2006 03:08 PM

Cheesy as hell, and what does a Shelby GT 500 have to do with The Omega Man. SHOW A VAMPIRE GODDAMMIT!!!

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MovieSamurai writes:
on Nov 30 2006 03:54 PM

Yeah, there's no way this would be an official one sheet. But the guy who created them is probably sitting in his chair with his hands patting his own back, because he foole RT, but not it's readers.

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Defmonkey writes:
on Nov 30 2006 04:53 PM

In reply to this comment (#850001)
[b]Shelby GT 500's have everything to do with Vampire[/b]
Because if I'm hunting some Vampires. The Car I would want to drive would be the Shelby GT 500. Because the Vamps would know where I am. Vampires know style. And thats gonna give Willy style.

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lrm8 writes:
on Nov 30 2006 05:45 PM

[b]fishy[/b]
i thought those posters looked alot like will smith in I, robot. interesting

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TheChase26 writes:
on Nov 30 2006 05:53 PM

haha theyre soo fake... the second one looks like a still taken out of the fast and the furious.

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GreenBastard writes:
on Nov 30 2006 10:33 PM

The book was very cool and it was written in the fifties!
In the book he drives a Willies jeep because he cant afford for it to brake down or he gets stuck in the middle of nowhere with a city full of vampires!
If I was Will I'd trade that American trash bag of an excuse for a half assed sports car in.
Maybe for something with more modern suspension, like a Hyundai or a Daewoo?

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Thre31189 writes:
on Dec 01 2006 08:07 AM

I agree with Irm8 im almost positive that is Will Smith in I Robot and on both posters the picture of him looks like it is the same one just ones closer up if the showed his shoes id bet money they were old school chuck taylors.

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