28 Days Later

Film Info

UK 2003 | 108 min. Director: Danny Boyle

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28 Days Later

Synopsis

A powerful virus is unleashed on the British public following a raid on a primate research facility by animal rights activists. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. With 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.

Cast & Crew

Director

Danny Boyle
Producer

Andrew Macdonald
Screenwriter

Alex Garland
Director of photography

Anthony Dod Mantle
Main Cast

Cillian Murphy (Jim), Naomie Harris (Selena), Brendan Gleeson (Frank), Megan Burns (Hannah), Christopher Eccleston (Jim's Father), Noah Huntley (Mark), Emma Hitching (Jim's Mother)
Editor (Cut)

Chris Gill
Original Score

John Murphy
Production Design

Mark Tildesley
Costume Design

Rachael Fleming
Makeup

Sallie Jaye

Director's comment

I like zombie movies but they come out of a particular period, a society paranoid about what might be the dirty result of nuclear weapons and power. I'm not a big aficionado of the genre, I like it a lot, but I love that Alex gave us a twist on the viral apocalypse theme - that this is not a clinical virus but a psychological one — so in the long run I feel there was respect for the genre but I hope that we freshened it up in some way.