Directed by Francis Lawrence, who would go on to make the Hunger Games sequels, a new adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel had been in the works at Warner Bros. Robert Neville, who thinks he’s the last man on Earth after a virus has wiped out most of the population. A year on and another pandemic movie has made it into Netflix’s top 10 – 2007’s I Am Legend, a horror sci-fi starring Will Smith as Dr. Whether out of morbid fascination or as a guideline to what we might see in the future it quickly topped charts on streaming services. Last March, confronted with a pandemic none of us had expected or understood, many people found themselves rewatching Steven Soderberg’s Contagion.
