Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is a 2009 science fiction film directed by James Arnett and starring Santiago Craig.
Overview
The film is the first screen adaptation of Mary Shelley’s three-volume novel of the same name. The location of the screen adaptation has been moved from Europe to the American Southwest. 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.
Plot: 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.
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 Southwest deserts well as create a film of apocalyptic scope.
Cast
* 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 (VOICE ADR)
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