Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a 2008

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

 science fiction film

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic...

 directed by James Arnett and starring Santiago Craig. The film was released in the USA on February 23, 2008.

Overview

The film is a very loose, low-budget adaptation of Mary Shelley's

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...

 three-volume novel of the same name

The Last Man

The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s...

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Synopsis

Lionel Verney, a lowly Tucson hospital worker, is seemingly immune to a super strain of small pox. After a week all but 2% of the city's population are dead, with the remaining suffering from varying degrees of blindness, physical deformation, sterility and madness.

Without any food or supplies coming into the city the plague survivors turn to cannibalism. The unscarred Lionel Verney, by default becomes the strongest man alive and begins to gun down the cannabilistic survivors

Cast

Santiago Craig: Lionel Verney

Teresa Shade: Evadne

Tom Rogers: Ray

Julio Garcia: Victor The Butcher

Courtney Davis: Capt. Idris

Kevin Lucero Less

Production

The shoot began on 9 August 2006 in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

and was completed on 11 February 2007.

External links

• Shelley's The Last Man The official site of the motion picture