Garland and Boyle concluded that one of the biggest fears in modern society is fear of disease, especially a viral apocalypse, such as Ebola or Marburg. One of the original factors behind zombie movies was a fear of nuclear power and its possible effects on people. Using 10 cameras, the filmmakers managed to capture a total of one minute of usable footage.Īlex Garland and Danny Boyle felt that the notion of the living dead wanting to eat peoples' brains was outdated. The police gradually slowed traffic in both directions. Robert Carlyle was offered the role of Major Henry West.įor the scenes on the motorway, the production got permission to shoot on the M1 on a Sunday morning between 7.00am and 9.00am. It was to be utterly destroyed as a punishment for its inhabitants' sins. Nahum was a prophet who predicted the destruction of the great city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. The Bible verse on Jim's postcard is from the Book of Nahum.
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They got several extremely attractive young women (including Danny Boyle's daughter) to make the necessary requests, and the drivers responded quite amicably to them. The producers correctly predicted that asking drivers (including clubbers headed home) to either wait for up to an hour or find another route might make some of them angry. After 1 hour, the police would reopen the roads.
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The scene where Jim, Selena and Mark shelter from the explosion by hiding between the windows was based upon a photo Danny Boyle had seen of a bomb blast in Northern Ireland.įor the London scenes, police would close the roads at 4am, and filming would begin immediately. Horror novelist Stephen King bought out an entire showing of the film in New York City. They liked the idea that the virus simply amplifies something already in each and every man and woman, rather than turning them into something entirely Other, as is the traditional route in zombie movies. Both Alex Garland and Danny Boyle felt that the idea that the virus renders people zombie-like due to uncontrollable rage was a good metaphor for the contemporary phenomenon of social rage (such as road rage, air rage, hospital rage etc).
Indeed, in 28 Days Later: The Aftermath (a graphic novel set between 28 Days Later, it is explained that the Ebola virus was being used by the scientists as a carrier for the inhibitor which mutated into Rage.Īnother aspect of rendering the zombie movie more contemporary was the idea that the virus didn't necessarily affect people physically (it doesn't kill them as in traditional zombie movies), but psychologically. Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever which leads to a rash, red eyes and both internal and external bleeding. The 'design' for the symptoms of Rage was based on Ebola, which is communicable in all primates (including humans), and is transmitted through the blood. If you did actually travel 27 miles North East of Manchester as stated in the movie, you would end up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.ĭirector Trademark: (Danny Boyle) (bridge) Jim is briefly seen crossing a large bridge. Likewise, the names of Jim's parents are never revealed. The surnames of Jim, Selena, Mark, Frank, and Hannah are never revealed, either during the film or in the credits. The news footage which begins the film was based on footage shot by the journalist Sorious Samura in Sierra Leone.
The symbol used for this film is the international symbol for blood-borne biohazard.
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