We tested it twice and it got wildly rejected, wildly rejected, which is why we came out with the other one." …And so you've basically turned everything on its head. I mean, it's the more philosophical version of the end, but in terms of story math we're doing everything you're not supposed to do, right? The hero doesn't find the cure, right?. As Francis Lawrence revealed to ScreenRant: The test audiences still hated it, though. The film's original ending was brighter, with Neville surviving and hints of normal humans learning how to coexist with the Darkseekers. Huge 80s Action Star Turned Down a Role on Friends to Save Her Marriage Neville, before his death, realizes that his slaughter of the infected and experimentation on them in his attempts to find a cure, made him a monster who will live on in their legends, not unlike vampires of our own stories. However, it had a much grimmer meaning in the original cut, which ending follows the novel closely, and preserves its main plot twist – the infected are gradually regaining their sapience and starting to rebuild society, while still retaining their nocturnal habits. James Cameron Can't Stop Shading Marvel Ahead of Avatar 2 Premiere The film's title is explained by Neville becoming a legendary figure of the surviving humanity. Neville finds other survivors, manages to produce a cure, then has to sacrifice himself to save them and the cure sample as a pack of Darkseekers breaks into his hideout. The theatrical cut's ending is a pretty standard Hollywood fare. Besides trying to contact any other possible survivors, he's busy with catching Darkseekers and experimenting on them using his own blood, in hopes that his natural immunity would allow him to produce a cure for the virus. At day he's free to move around with his dog, at night he must hunker down, while Darkseekers prowl the streets.
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