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The Omega Man is a 1971 American action, science fiction, disaster, and horror film directed by Boris Sagal and produced by Walter Seltzer, based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with William Peter Blatty. Set in Los Angeles, it stars Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Paul Koslo, and Rosalind Cash, with cinematography by Russell Metty, a score by Ron Grainer, and editing by William H. Ziegler. Its subject matter includes solitude and epidemic.
Produced by Walter Seltzer Productions and Warner Bros. Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix, the film was rated PG, ran 98 minutes, earned 8,720,000 at the box office, and received 1 nomination.
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6.2Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Robert Neville
- Anthony Zerbe as Matthias
- Rosalind Cash as Lisa
- Paul Koslo as Dutch
- Eric Laneuville as Richie
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as Zachary
Themes
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- post-apocalyptic future
- survivalist
- vaccine
- last man on earth
- plague
- pandemic
- mutants
- vaccine researcher
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
35,409 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
65%
Metacritic
56/100
- Year
- 1971
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Boris Sagal
- Screenplay by
- John William Corrington , Joyce H. Corrington
- Based on
- I Am Legend , 1954 novel, by Richard Matheson
- Produced by
- Walter Seltzer
- Starring
- Charlton Heston , Anthony Zerbe , Rosalind Cash
- Cinematography
- Russell Metty
- Edited by
- William H. Ziegler
- Music by
- Ron Grainer
- Production company
- Walter Seltzer Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- August 1, 1971 ( 1971-08-01 )
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Box office
- $4 million ( rentals )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- I Am Legend
- Main subject
- epidemic
- Director
- Boris Sagal
- Screenwriter
- William Peter Blatty
- Cast member
- DeVeren Bookwalter
- Composer
- Ron Grainer
- Producer
- Walter Seltzer
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Russell Metty
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 98
- FilmAffinity ID
- 347267
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1971-01-01
- film editor
- William H. Ziegler
- title
- The Omega Man
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Richard Matheson
- review score
- 65%
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Encyclopedic overview
The Omega Man (stylized as The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a pandemic. It was written by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington, based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973.
The Omega Man is the second adaptation of Matheson's novel. The first was The Last Man on Earth (1964), which starred Vincent Price. A third adaptation, I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, was released in 2007, and appropriated this film's tagline.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Omega Man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.