I haven't seen The Omega Man, but I have read I Am Legend, the original 1954 novel by Richard Mattheson on which it's based, and it's not survivor fiction in the sense being talked about here, since there's only one human survivor, rather than a lifeboat-style group of people trying to decide who to push off the back of the sled.
I'm also not sure how much the upcoming Will Smith movie I Am Legend takes from The Omega Man, as opposed to the original story, or the 1964 Vincent Price version, The Last Man on Earth. There's also I Am Omega, a straight-to-DVD adaptation that came out earlier this year.
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Date: 2007-11-27 11:23 pm (UTC)I'm also not sure how much the upcoming Will Smith movie I Am Legend takes from The Omega Man, as opposed to the original story, or the 1964 Vincent Price version, The Last Man on Earth. There's also I Am Omega, a straight-to-DVD adaptation that came out earlier this year.