The Last Man (film)

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Mary Shelley's The Last Man
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Directed by James Arnett
Produced by Gabriele Andres
Written by James Arnett
Starring Santiago Craig
Teresa Shade
Tom Rogers
Julio Garcia
Courtney Davis
Cinematography James Arnett
Running time 120 Minutes
Country USA
Language English
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Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a 2008 science fiction film directed by James Arnett and starring Santiago Craig. Mary Shelley's The Last Man is the first screen adaptation of Mary Shelley’s three-volume novel of the same name, but the screen adaptation offers a more contemporary vision of the 21st century than found in the nineteenth century novel. The location of the screen adaptation has been moved from Europe to the American Southwest.

While Shelley’s social themes and sensibilities remain in the screen adaptation, her three volumes have been folded into one composite narrative, structured to fit the feature film format as an introspective action movie.

The Plague has also been updated in the screen adaptation as a weaponized strain of Small Pox looted by black marketers from an abandoned Soviet biological weapon laboratory in Siberia as the source of the pandemic. Mary Shelley's The Last Man was completed in November 2007.

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Hospital orderly Lionel Verney’s dream is to play professional Triple-A baseball but finds himself as the only apparent immune case following a manmade, global pandemic that has found its way to Tucson, Arizona. Verney quickly learns to fight for the scraps of the 21st century against the scarred and disfigured “Diseased” who have turned to cannibalism after the food supply becomes exhausted. Mary Shelley’s theme of the greatest threat to the survival of mankind is brought forth in this epic scope apocalypse.

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Actor Role
Santiago Craig Lionel Verney
Teresa Shade Evadne
Tom Rogers Ray
Julio Garcia Victor The Butcher
Courtney Davis Idris
Kevin Lucero Less McMahon, Guards, The Infected, Pali, Tom, George, Robert (ADR)

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The Seven-month shoot began on 9 August 2006 in Tucson, Arizona by A.I.A. Productions as a "weekends only" project. Principal Photography was completed on 11 February 2007. Director James Arnett was behind the camera for the entire filming of the movie with his Producer Gabriele Andres managing the entire production, as a two-person production team.

Locations included: Marana Northwest Regional Airport, standing in for Siberia; UPH Physicians Hospital, Kino Campus; Tucson Electric Park; Downtown Tucson; Suburban Marana; the Hotel Congress; Tucson City Hall; the Historic Warehouse District; the Historic Scottish Rite Temple; Pima County Court Building; Tucson’s Presidio; Evergreen Air Center, and; Pima Community College. Aircraft included Boeing 747s, Boeing 727's, DC-10's, a 1948 Cessna Jump Plane as well as a Robinson R44 helicopter. Automatic weapons included: Bushmaster Dissapator Carbines and Vltor U.S. Navy Seal CQB model M-4's.

The production of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man involved six crew members and over 120 actors on its largest filming day, with special services provided by at least a dozen other specialists.

Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is a Tucson guerrilla production, quartered at Artfare.org in Tucson, Arizona, produced under the same four figure budget as Robert Rodriguez’s “El Mariachi” but with jumbo jets, nuclear blasts and urban machinegun battles, using real (blank-fire adapted) machineguns, filmed in the downtown center of an American city. Using modern computer graphic effects, it was possible to simulate the below zero tundra of Siberia in the over 100 degree heat of the Desert Southwest as well as create a film of apocalyptic scope.

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