FILM: Viggo inspired by 'I Am Legend'

Viggo Mortensen's next project sounds oddly similar to Will Smith's last project I Am Legend, where he plays the last man on earth after an epidemic turns all humans into vampire-like creatures. Viggo will start production soon on an adaptation of No Country for Old Men writer Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winner The Road. McCarthy's novel is about a man and his son taking a journey across the U.S. after, essentially, the apocalypse destroys most of life on Earth.

Maybe it's like some Hollywood inside joke that everybody seems to be preparing for armageddon--what with Smith's film, this week's new release The Signal (which happens to look shockingly similar to M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening where people just starting committing suicide and murder), the addition of the TV series "The Terminator," and the ominous pairing of Eva Longoria and Paul Rudd in a romantic comedy. Either way, I'm starting to get the chills. Chances are this movie won't have any vampires or blockbuster appeal. But what it does promise is Charlize Theron. So my guess is Viggo gets to repopulate the Earth with her or at least use that as a pick up line.