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This is almost exactly the premise of “I Am Legend” — the film, at least.

• riffraff 4y ago
  I think the book deals with a bacteria-based pandemic of unspecified origin. It does have a much, much better plot than the movie tho.
  • telesilla 4y ago
    The alternative, book-correct ending apparently failed with test audiences who failed to identify the doctor as the bad guy. https://youtu.be/Bju1srxOYxo https://youtu.be/Bju1srxOYxo
    • riffraff 4y ago
      oh, I didn't know that ending existed, thanks! It's been a while since I read the book, but it makes sense to me people failed to identify with the doctor as the bad guy at the end of the movie. In the book, we're shown what amounts to a small love story between him and a vampire, and the living-vampires brutalizing the dead-vampires, and finally the doctor. There's a ton of build up to the reversal that the alt ending does not seem to have.
• NegativeLatency 4y ago
  “Life always finds a way”