28 Years Later Ponders What Living With the Rage Virus for Decades Does to Britain and the Infected

“In 28 Years Later, we tried imagining however a satellite would rebuild itself aft an apocalypse,” director-producer Danny Boyle explained successful this exclusive behind-the-scenes video, which you tin ticker via the subordinate below. (Check retired the latest trailer here.)

Boyle and writer-producer Alex Garland teamed for the archetypal 2002 movie 28 Days Later but skipped its 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later. “It doesn't consciousness similar a sequel. It feels similar an archetypal film,” said Boyle.

Returning to the satellite helium created, Garland considered the effect the transition of truthful overmuch clip would person not lone connected Britain but besides the infected.

“Initial conversations were often astir imagining what does 28 years aboriginal mean? If the corruption is inactive successful Britain, what does the corruption look like?,” said Garland. “How does the remainder of the satellite respond to that? Has the state been quarantined, fundamentally abandoned?”

Garland continued, “When countries illness for 1 crushed oregon another, they're often abandoned. There's a ruthless, pragmatic, dog-eat-dog dimensions to the mode these things play out.”

That abandoned Britain is represented successful the aboriginal portions of the movie by Lindisfarne (aka Holy Island), a tidal land connected the Northumberland Coast. While that isolation offers immoderate harmless haven to the joined protagonists played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, it besides robs them of immoderate 21st period advantages.

“Holy Island, which is wherever our movie begins, it's protected by a causeway that you tin defend, but there's the deficiency of machinery, nary energy oregon fuel,” explained Boyle.

“Everything that surrounds our beingness now, abruptly it's useless. The mainland past becomes determination implicit there, which has some committedness and threat.”

That threat, of course, is the infected, who Boyle referred to arsenic “extraordinary creatures.”

As helium did with imagining a Britain astir 3 decades aft an apocalypse, Garfield besides considered however the transition of clip would impact the infected who are not zombies per se.

“They haven't died and travel backmost to life. They're surviving radical who've got sick and been infected with a rage virus. That dictates immoderate stuff,” said Garfield.

“They request to drink, they request to eat. If they've survived 28 years infected with this disease, what would they look like? Are they akin to thing successful the carnal kingdom? What would they beryllium akin to?”

Fans volition person to find that retired erstwhile 28 Years Later hits theaters June 20th.