5/24/2023 0 Comments Cast 28 weeks later28 Weeks Later certainly announced Fresnadillo as a director with a future ahead of him. ![]() Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is an interesting name who had previously made the fascinating Intacto (2001), a film set around the intriguing premise of a secret underground where people gamble on each other’s luck quotient. With the sequel, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland step back to executive producing roles, while handing over direction to the relatively unknown Spanish director/writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. In particular, when it came to the depiction of the aftermath of the disaster, Boyle and Garland only skimmed over the scenario and failed to get inside it on a deeper level. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had appropriated too many of their ideas from elsewhere – notably from Romero’s Day of the Dead (1985) – and 28 Days Later felt less like a reinvention of the zombie genre than a film that went supermarket shopping for its ideas among a body of other genre films. I must admit being one of the voices that felt disappointed in 28 Days Later. Among other things, it brought about a sudden revival of interest in the films of George Romero and sparked off a massive spate of Romero-inspired zombie films throughout the latter half of the 00s. Despite being made on a low budget ($8 million), 28 Days Later was a surprise hit in international release. Joined by a friendly solider Doyle, they try to escape to safety in between ravening hordes of zombies and the military who have ordered Central London to be firebombed to stop the outbreak.Ģ8 Days Later (2002) was an end of the world/zombie film made as collaboration between director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland. Amid this, Scarlet tries to escape with Tammy and Andy, seeing them as potentially carrying a natural antidote to Rage. The military are forced to call an emergency quarantine and General Stone orders all infected and civilians in the medical centre to be shot alike. The infected Donald rampages through the hospital, biting others. When a guilty Donald goes into confront her, Alice deliberately bites and infects him. Back in the Green Zone, the medical specialist Scarlet is fascinated to discover that Alice is infected but has a natural immunity to Rage. They break out of the Green Zone and return to the house seeking mementoes of her – only to find her still alive. He tells them how he saw their mother devoured and there was nothing he could do to save her. Donald has been appointed in charge of power and electricity and is rejoined by his teenage daughter Tammy and young son Andy. 28 weeks later, the Rage zombies have died out from starvation and a NATO force has reoccupied England and created a Green Zone around London where surviving civilians are being repatriated. As the zombies break in, Donald flees, deliberately abandoning Alice. Their safety is interrupted by a young boy fleeing from a horde of zombies. That film persuaded Danny Boyle and DNA Films to hire him and he tells us about his thoughts once he got asked to do it, his concepts for the sequel and the problems of shooting in major city like London.During the outbreak of Rage virus across England, Donald Harris and his wife Alice take refuge in a cottage with several others. I spoke with them about filming in London and how this might compete against all the sequels out this summer.ĭirector Juan Carlos Fresnadillo came to a lot of people’s attention a few years ago with the brilliant Spanish thriller Intacto. In this film they play two US troops who have to help people escape from London after the infection returns to the city. ![]() Harold has played Michael Dawson in the first three seasons of Lost, whilst Jeremy was recently in North Country with Charlize Theron and will soon be seen alongside Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James. Harold Perrineau and Jeremy Renner are two US actors you might have seen in other things recently. Plus, we also find out if he’d be up for reuniting with the old Trainspotting team again. He also explains what it was like working with his old friend Danny Boyle when the director of the original did some 2nd unit work on this film. Robert Carlyle tells us about Don, the character he plays in the film and the difficult choices he has to make and how this is more of a companion piece to 28 Days Later. The new film explores what happens when the rage virus of the previous film has seemingly died out and citizens return to London with US troops in charge of the operation. 28 Weeks Later is out today and we speak to four of the key people involved in bringing the sequel to 28 Days Later to the screen.
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