New York has been the setting for many futuristic/dystopian and disaster movies. The reduction of the Statue of Liberty to rumble -- as in director John Carpenter's 1981 film Escape from New York -- is a powerful visual. Kurt Russell starred as Snake Plissken in the movie whose events happen in the year 1997. In the movie, the entire Manhattan island has been transformed into a maximum security prison. The ex-soldier Snake is charged with retrieving the President after Air Force One crash lands in the havoc.
In I Am Legend, Will Smith stars as Army scientist Robert Neville. He is the last surviving human in 2012 New York City. A terrible virus has killed most of the planet's population. Neville remains, immune to the deadly virus. The film is based on Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name. The book was first adapted into the films The Last Man on Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971).
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