The Omega Man
The last man alive...is not alone!
Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$0
Box office
$8 720 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Walter Seltzer
Camera operator
Composer
Ron Grainer
Artist
Audition
Jack Roberts
Editing
William H. Ziegler
Whole Team (23)
Whole Team (23)
Short description
Due 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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, film producer Walter Zelzer (1914-2011) drove through the business district of Los Angeles on his day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
- This prompted the screenwriters, John William Corrington (1932-1988), Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson (1926-2013), to come up with the idea of making the friend of the main character, played by Charlton Heston (1923-2008), an African American woman, Rosalind Cash (1939-1995). It was the 1970s, and interracial relationships were not yet so common, but the screenwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
- The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, the film’s producer Walter Zelzer drove through the business district of Los Angeles on a day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed scenes in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
- The idea to cast Rosaline Cash, an African American actress, as the friend of the main character played by Charlton Heston came to the scriptwriters John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson. Interracial relationships were not yet widespread, but the scriptwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
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