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Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a 2008 science fiction film directed by James Arnett and starring Santiago Craig. The film was released in the USA on February 23, 2008^[1].

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 smallpox 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.

Synopsis

Cast

Production

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; University Physicians Healthcare (UPH) Hospital at 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 Dissipater 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 machine gun battles, using real (blank-fire adapted) machine guns, 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.

References

1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0950753/releaseinfo

External links

• Mary Shelley's The Last Man The official site of the motion picture
• Production Blog Behind the scenes photos of making Mary Shelley's The Last Man
• Tucson Film Office Mary Shelley's The Last Man Showcases Tucson
• Filmstalker (UK) Mary Shelley's The Last Man completes filming: 22 February 2007
• Horror Movies Online (Canada) The Last Man Wraps Production: 18 February 2007
• Tucson Weekly Newspaper In Production: 18 January 2007
• KVOA NBC-TV News Report Explosions, zombies, gunfights in Downtown Tucson: 8 January 2007
• Movies Online (Canada) Mary Shelleys Last Man Movie: 14 August 2006
• Horror Movies Online (Canada) The Last Man Movie: 20 September 2006
• Filmstalker (UK) Mary Shelley's Last Man in development: 21 June 2006
• The Last Man at the Internet Movie Database