In this script, the Hemocytes, as they called, talk, think and fight. They’re organized in different casts, clerics, warriors, nurses, you name it, and they know since the beginning where Neville lives since they try to break into his fortress every night. Well, in fact every 2 nights because after each attack, they mourn for their dead fellas on the following night.

For each attack, they come like an army with drums, and songs, so attractive that Neville has to crunk classical music to avoid listening to their calls. In this script also, the dog isn’t named, but is even more useful than in the movie: it stays out in the inner perimeter of Neville’s fortress during the attacks.

I won’t sum it all here, but this script tend to follow a lot more the movie. In it, Anna is sent by Cortman (the Hemocyte leader) as a trojan horse to gain trust and then betray Neville by switching off all the defensive material (cameras, sensors, mines…). In this script, she’s one of the human that the Hemocytes cattle to have fresh blood and Cortman tells her that if she helps them catching (not killing) Neville, they’ll set her and her baby brother free.

When Neville gets caught, they bring him back to their city and display him on a pole for everybody to see that their warriors finally succeeded in catching the monster. There, Neville realizes that they are not what he thought, and that they have artistic skills, in their way. Babies look at him with fear in their eyes and drink the blood drops leaking from his wounds like all child do with the first snow flakes in winter.

Unfortunately, I can’t find the url but you should find this script quite easily. Of course, as a script, there is some hollywood scenes but I guess F. Lawrence and W. Smith should have follow this one instead of the aseptised one they shot.

But would the vampies not have chomped on Will as punishment? What were they even eating? I don’t think there were enough deer to go around.

So, the original isn’t that much better.

and people…… let’s stop talking about that!!!!!!!
nobody reads this anymore, heheej

The alternative takes the ideas seen earlier in the film that the monsters are indeed getting more intelligent, capable of planning, leadership and even love and compassion. Perhaps the butterfly symbol is symbolic of a metamorphis then?
As for the bridge question, maybe the monsters even got so clever and considerate, they rebuilt the bridge themselves one night, both as a Birthday present to Neville and also to get rid of the little sh*t so they could run around screaming at night untroubled! (surely not!)
Either way - decent film, ropey ending(s).

Just look at humanity! Sure we have the impules to act violently from time to time, but we resist those urges for the sake of order (and yes, sometimes out of fear of retribution, like the main darkseeker’s lackeys seemed to be).

It seems like the whole movies was leading up to the revelation that the monsters were intelligent and had their own society, and to just sacrifice that in favor of an ignorant, desperate explosion seems a foolish conclusion, despite that being what Neville ultimately did in the book.

In the book, Neville didn’t have to die at all. It was just because he was stupid and stayed behind to fight the human-esque vampires that he was executed. He could have just left and he would have been just as large a legend. Larger, even, because he wouldn’t have been caught, and the vampires would have had to live in fear of his return.

In short, yes, this alternative ending included some interesting conclusions (the interpretation of the quote “I Am Legend” to mean that the darkseekers were the ones that viewed Neville as the legend, like in the book) but when looking at the other 95 minutes of the movie, the theatrical version of the last 5 worked much better. In my opinion at least.

That’s the dumbest rationale ever.