“In 28 years later, we have tried to imagine how a world is rebuilt after an apocalypse,” said director-producer Danny Boyle in this exclusive backstage video, which you can watch via the player below. (Discover the last trailer here.)
Boyle and the writer-producer Alex Garland teamed up for the original 2002 film 28 days later, but jumped his 2007 suite, 28 weeks later. “It doesn’t look like a sequel. It looks like an original film,” said Boyle.
Back to the world he created, Garland considered the effect that the passage of so many time would not only have on Great Britain but also the infected.
“Initial conversations often aimed to imagine what it means 28 years later? If the infection is still in Great Britain, what does the infection look like?” Said Garland. “How does the rest of the world react to this?” Has the country been quarantined, mainly abandoned? ”
Garland continued: “When countries collapse for one reason or another, they are often abandoned. There are ruthless and pragmatic dimensions and dog dogs in the way these things take place. ”
This abandoned Britain is represented in the first parts of the film by Lindisfarne (alias L’île Holy), an island of tide on the coast of Northumberland. Although this isolation offers a safe refuge to the married protagonists played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, he also deprived them of any advantage of the 21st century.
“Holy Island, where our film begins, it is protected by a roadway that you can defend, but there is the lack of machines, no electricity or fuel,” said Boyle.
“All that surrounds our life now, suddenly is useless. The continent then becomes somewhere there, which has both a promise and a threat. ”
This threat, of course, is the infected, which Boyle called “extraordinary creatures”.
As he did with the imagination of a Britain almost three decades after an apocalypse, Garfield also examined how the passage of time would affect the infected which are not zombies in itself.
“They are not dead and did not come back to life. These are living people who fell ill and were infected with a rabies virus. This dictates certain things,” said Garfield.
“They need to drink, they need to eat. If they have survived at 28 years infected with this disease, what would they look like? Are they similar to something in the animal kingdom? What would they be similar? “
Fans will have to discover this when 28 years later will be released in theaters on June 20.
