While some Americans who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have raised conspiracy theories that "when vaccinated, you become a zombie" based on the setting in the movie 'I am Legend', the writer who wrote the movie said that he was embarrassed.
On the 10th local time, the BBC reported that the author of the 2007 movie 'I Am Legend' about a zombie apocalypse (a catastrophe on the level of extinction of mankind) has corrected the 'vaccine conspiracy theory'.
The end of the case was this. Recently, a false fact among vaccine denials that “when you vaccinate, you turn into a zombie” was circulated on social media in the form of an online meme. This is because in the movie 'I Am Legend', the treatment administered for the purpose of cancer treatment mutated and some of humanity turned into zombies.
In fact, the owner of an optician in the Bronx, New York, said in an interview with the New York Post, "The employee is hesitant to vaccinate because he thinks he will turn into a zombie after watching 'I am Legend'." Time magazine reporter Vera Bergengruen also shared the story on Twitter, noting that it was "surprisingly widespread online."
As the absurd conspiracy theories were met with criticism from netizens, the writer who wrote the script for the movie eventually found out about it. 'I Am Legend' writer and producer Akiva Goldsman was shocked by Bergengruen's tweet, saying, "Oh my gosh, it's just a movie. It's a story I made up, not the real thing."
Some people who currently refuse to vaccinate in the United States are citing scenes from movies such as 'Children of Men' and 'The Matrix' in addition to 'I Am Legend' to support their claims. As the number of lies and conspiracy theories spread online, US President Joe Biden publicly criticized those spreading false facts, saying, "Social media platforms are killing people."
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(Photo=Twitter 'VeraMBergen' · 'AkivaGoldsman', Warner Bros. Korea)