The Omega Man News

That would have been when I arrived to work here at The Rep, and my first impression was how desolate Main Street was.

Originally released in 2007 to take advantage of the anticipated Will Smith blockbuster I Am Legend , I Am Omega borrows from Matheson's source material and, like George Romero did in Night of the Living Dead , replaces vampires with zombies.

Perhaps it's a function of generation, but I remain fascinated by the short period during which Charlton Heston was Hollywood's Man of the Future, its A1 4bermensch of dystopia.

The conspicuous lack of panic over the world's rumoured end next Friday is probably accounted for by one of the following reasons: 1) No one's heard about it.

Let me preface this column by saying that I think the world and its people will endure through that ominous December date.