![]() ![]() “ photos from the 1930s of people dying with rabies, and they’re being approached with a bowl of water and the expression on their face when they see this water is absolutely terrified.”ĭirector Danny Boyle in 2002. “Also, there’s a sequence in your death throes where you get this weird thing don’t understand called ‘hydrophobia’, which is a fear of water. “ that moment of incandescent murderous fury that you have when you’re driving a car and you just lose it”, he adds. ![]() “We hired a load of ex-athletes to play a lot of the infected, so that we’d have this power in them that was really quite scary. CREDIT: Alamyīut who would play these radical monsters? “We wanted to be athletes, with almost superhuman running abilities so that there was no way you could run away from them,” says Boyle. The zombies in ’28 Days Later’ were a departure from previous versions. It was a far cry from the Night Of The Living Dead shufflers people were used to. Consciously distancing himself from zombie tropes, Boyle ushered in a whole new breed of seething, rabid-dog ghouls, spewing blood from their eyes and mouths while sprinting after their victims. It wasn’t just the real world that was about to change. One of them was my daughter who was 19 at the time and they’d say, ‘Would you just mind waiting here? We’re making a film…’ It’s just bizarre the way it worked.” He adds: “We hired all these girls to be traffic marshals. That changed with the millennia and we benefitted from deciding to shoot those early mornings in July.” CREDIT: Alamyīoyle agrees: “The central city security was almost unrecognisably relaxed compared to what you will understand as city centre security now. (L-R) Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris. “It wasn’t really connecting but Danny kept asking me back, which was really nice. “Jim was written as English – and I was doing a terrible London accent ,” recalls the Cork-born star. I met Christopher Nolan through that, so it was massive for me.” Murphy and Nolan would go on to collaborate on six more movies together, including Batman Begins, Inception and the upcoming Oppenheimer – but he says he’ll always remember his big break. “It opened doors for me,” he says over Zoom, while fixing himself a cuppa. Budgeted below £7million, 28 Days Later made more than £73m at the box office – a huge hit.įor Murphy, who’d spent the previous five years making short films and Irish indies, the success came just at the right time. They’re promised a cure via military broadcast, yet the ulterior motives of Major Henry (Christopher Eccleston) are soon laid bare, leading to a ferocious game of cat-and-mouse. After that atmospheric introduction in London, Jim journeys to Manchester with fellow survivors Selena (Naomie Harris), Hannah (Megan Burns) and Frank (Brendan Gleeson). The film stars Cillian Murphy as Jim, who awakens from a coma four weeks after a dangerous virus rages across the land – transforming swathes of the population into red-eyed, murderous zombies. We complain how overcrowded are and about the stress, and then in an instant, life as we know it in many, many different forms can empty them.” “‘He wanders around London on his own’ and you just thought ‘Oh my God!’ What an amazing idea: a deserted London. “It was like a quarter of a page,” he continues, gleefully recounting his first impressions of the story. “I remember reading the first ten pages of, thinking ‘This is brilliant.’” “I instantly knew the film was something very special,” Boyle tells NME via video call two months earlier. It’s the opening moments of Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece 28 Days Later, first released 20 years ago this week. But make no bones about it, it's the great Robert Carlyle (Full Monty) who steals the show as the children's' dad who makes some extremely tough choices, he really sinks his teeth into the role and the film is all the more better for it.A scraggy bloke in medical scrubs meanders across an empty Westminster Bridge scattered litter the only remnant of civilisation as Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s doomy track ‘East Hastings’ plays in the background. It's also well-acted apart from a few bit parts. However two kids who want to see their old house could just be everyone's undoing in this sequel to the film "28 Days Later" Director Juan Fresnadilo might not be quite up at the level as Danny Boyle, but he still does an admirable job in his own right and the film crawls with tension (espiecally the opening sequence which is superb). 28 weeks after the original outbreak of the Rage virus the military is still busy cleaning up and providing 'safe zones' for the survivors of the post-apocalyptic London.
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