‘I Am Legend’ Scribe Akiva Goldsman Slams Covid Vaccine Conspiracy Theory Centered On Post-Apocalyptic Pic

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Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman took to Twitter on Monday to quash a conspiracy theory, centered on his 2007 Warner Bros. film, I Am Legend. The theory, which has circulated at least since the beginnin…

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“It’s difficult to find a claim with as many factual errors as this one,” Dan Evon wrote in the post. centered on Robert Neville , a U.S. Army virologist who believes himself to be the sole survivor in New York City, years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into mutants, struggling valiantly to find a cure.

As Snopes and the New York Times article referenced by Bernardin both noted, the plague in the film was brought on by a genetically reprogrammed virus, rather than any vaccine. Francis Lawrence directed the film, based on Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name. Goldsman wrote the script with Mark Protosevich.We. Are. All. Going. To. Die.

 

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Finally Goldsmith writes something that isn't utter garbage.

It's embarrassing that such commentary is needed. Really, really embarrassing.

Goldsman should probably look in the mirror himself for butchering the entire fucking point of Richard Matheson's story

Zakiyyah6 This is so bleeping stupid! Even if the movie WAS set in 2021 and had the outbreak be from a vaccine (which is just not accurate to say PERIOD), it'd mean absolutely nothing! This is dumber than that 'Simpsons Predicted' shit!

Must suck when they keep using something you came up with ages ago to justify being anti science and promote conspiracy theories😭

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