What's the Difference between I Am Legend the Book and I Am Legend the Movie?

Science Fiction

I Am Legend

24%
Released: 1954
Author: Richard Matheson

I Am Legend

76%
Released: 2007
Director: Francis Lawrence
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Robert Neville
Robert Neville
Portrayed by: Will Smith
Virginia Neville
Zoe Neville
Portrayed by: Salli Richardson
Kathy Neville
Marley Neville
Portrayed by: Willow Smith
Ruth
Anna Montez
Portrayed by: Alice Braga
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   The origins of the vampire plague are unknown. The bacteria that causes it was spread through spores hidden in dust storms caused by bombings. The infection was created through an engineered version of the measles virus meant to treat cancer which mutated into a deadlier strain.
   Neville kills the vampires with wooden stakes, before discovering that oxygen in their circulatory system can kill them. The vampires produce a "skin-glue" that makes them impervious to bullets. Neville hunts the infected with a rifle, which is effective against them.
   The stray dog Neville encounters returns one day with signs of infection. Neville forces it into his home, but is forced to put him down after a week. Sam is mauled by infected dogs. Neville takes her back to his lab, but Sam is affected that same evening, forcing Neville to kill her.
   Neville encounters a woman named Ruth walking around in the daylight and tries to call out to her. Ruth is scared, and Neville has to subdue her before being able to convince her to trust him. Neville goes into a suicidal rage after Sam's death and tries to run over a multitude of infectees, but is saved by the intervention of Anna, who comes to live with him with her son.
   Ruth turns out to be a spy for a society of people who have been infected but invented a pill to ward off the effects of the vampire pathogen. Before returning to them, she tries to warn Neville to flee before they come to kill him, as they have come to hate him for killing untold numbers of their would-be kind. Anna is a refugee en route to a colony of healthy humans who happened to run into Neville after hearing his radio broadcast. She is sent away by Neville with the cure before he sacrifices himself in fulminating a horde of infected.
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