I don’t know how long this alternate ending to I Am Legend will last but if you get a chance, you should watch it if you’ve seen the movie. This ending is IMHO far superior to the abrupt version in the theatrical release, and fits in better with something that happens in the film about midway through.
I didn’t post this up earlier because it was only available on YouTube, and videos of this sort get yanked pretty quickly and them I’m left with a useless post. 
GameTrailers.com has a version which I’ve embedded below, which will hopefully hang around a bit longer.
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At one point in the movie when Will Smith’s character took the lead zombie’s mate away from them, the zombie reacted with extreme rage, indicating that there was some vestige of humanity left in them. But throughout the rest of the movie we never saw any more hint of that, which felt “unfinished” to me.
Well this clip addresses that very nicely, plus doesn’t have that nihilistic ending with Will Smith dying. I don’t know why they didn’t go with this ending… maybe they thought it was too cliched for Will Smith to survive - but in this case I think it would only have made the film better.
Source: GameTrailers.com
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I agree,
I think this ending is vastly better than that of the theatrical version. Those guys really freak the hell out of me though
SPOILER ABOUT THE BOOK! I Am Legend the book features Neville killing himself, only because a race of Vampires were more human-like and one of them warned him to escape to the mountains. He didn’t and he’s captured by this new vampire, and he’s set for execution for killing so many of the others.
Btw, the “other” vampires can still talk, but they’re desperate to kill him. The new ones are more civilized.
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I completely agree with you here Vic, this ending was so much better than the one that ran with the movie in theaters. Plus this didn’t have the corny “this is his legend” line at the end. This ending actually gave a feeling of humanism to the vampires.
In the original movie that this one is based on, the lead character Dr. Neville dies at the end. I think that the studio did not want to go against the original. And yes, the book takes from the original movie with the talking and the trial.
i liked the theatrical one a lot more
and anyway, if he doesn’t die, then how can he a legend? (the title is I AM LEGEND for a reason)
I prefer the this ending to the theatrical, it still isn’t the ending I wanted but, it had some of the spirit of the novel. Neville realizing these things aren’t as mindless as he thought by looking at the wall of all the ones he’s killed.
I don’t really think the theatrical ending was nihilistic at all, yeah Neville sacrifices himself but it’s still a hopeful ending. With this one it leaves it ambiguous as to whether there is a colony of surviors. Still hate the woman doing the voice over at the end.
It’s been pulled…uh oh…another useless post
Drat, I would have liked to have seen that!
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