They still would have been speedy creatures in 'The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made,' conceptual illustrator Tani Kunitake says that Scott 'didn't want them lumbering around like 'Night of the Living Dead.' He wanted them extremely fast, so they were running around like agile mummies.' That said, the script, once rewritten by Scott and John Logan, was 'unrelenting' and didn't have its lead character speak for nearly an hour, prompting Warner Bros. Under the watchful eye of Ridley Scott, production designer Arthur Max looked through countless photos of starvation subjects to get the right 'wasted away' look.

It's a strange and fascinating exercise to consider how the movie might have been impacted had Gillis and company at Amalgamated Dynamics been given the clearance to let loose with the latex. Tech work helmed by Paint by Mike Larrabee. Contribbing sculptors were and Jeff Boccaccio. We did get an interview on that version but there was next to no interest in makeup fx. It all got shelved until the Francis Lawrence/ Will Smith version years later. The budget was coming in 10 mil higher than desired. Shortly after we shot the test at ADI Warner's decided not to make the movie. The appliance pieces were sculpted by and Steve Koch and applied by, myself and Barry Koper.

We did a test on a single female subject to show her in a few stages of emaciation. I think we did our design exploratory in about 1997 ( is that right ?) Ridley was influenced by wax figures from the 17th century. Ridley Scott's version of I AM LEGEND was to have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and featured 'hemocytes' realized as makeup characters. A post shared by alec_gillis posted the details on his Instagram account:

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