About ten year before Will Smith’s vampire film I Am Legend was released in theaters in 2007, Ridley Scott was developing his own version of the film that was supposed to star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project ended up not happening, and now all these later makeup artist Alec Gillis is showing off the makeup tests he created in 1997 to bring the story to life. The art came with the following note:
Ridley Scott’s version of I Am Legend was to have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and featured ‘hemocytes’ realized as makeup characters. I think we did our design exploratory in about 1997 ( is that right @h2originals ?) Ridley was influenced by wax figures from the 17th century. We did a test on a single female subject to show her in a few stages of emaciation. The appliance pieces were sculpted by @ryankennethpeterson and Steve Koch and applied by @Tom_woodruffjr, myself and Barry Koper.
Ridley Scott’s version of I Am Legend was to have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and featured ‘hemocytes’ realized as makeup characters. I think we did our design exploratory in about 1997 ( is that right @h2originals ?) Ridley was influenced by wax figures from the 17th century. We did a test on a single female subject to show her in a few stages of emaciation. The appliance pieces were sculpted by @ryankennethpeterson and Steve Koch and applied by @Tom_woodruffjr, myself and Barry Koper.
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