David Heyman, Akiva Goldsman, Neal Moritz and Erwin Stoff are producing. Mark Protosevich wrote the script.
WB has entrusted Lawrence with one of the more ambitious films in its repertoire. But the studio has championed the director since he jumped from being a video helmer to directing the Keanu Reeves pic "Constantine."
In "Legend," he takes on a big sci-fi project that has been at the studio for nearly a decade. At one time, it had Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger attached, and another incarnation had Michael Bay and Will Smith set.
Set in Los Angeles after a biological war, the pic centers on the sole healthy survivor, a man who finds himself in a battle against nocturnal mutants. Pic will undergo a rewrite under the supervision of Lawrence and the producers, who eye a 2006 start date.
Matheson's post-apocalyptic tale has been filmed twice before. Vincent Price starred in the 1964 pic "The Last Man on Earth," and Charlton Heston toplined "The Omega Man."
Mike Tadross is exec producing, and WB exec Polly Cohen is overseeing for the studio.
-variety,bloody-disgusting
now i'm not too excited about it being directed by the guy who did constatine,i was a big fan of hellblazer and can't bring myself to watch keanu....but besides dreams in the witchouse,this is my favorite piece of literature....i thought maybe romero was getting to this point...
