28 Weeks Later (2007) on Netflix
Twenty-eight weeks after the rage virus killed everyone in Britain, US-led forces bring settlers into a guarded zone in London. Tammy and Andy slip out at dawn to their old home.
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Plot summary
When the rage virus first breaks out in Britain, Don and his wife Alice hide in a cottage outside London with four other survivors. A boy arrives and a horde of the infected follows him inside. Don leaves alone by boat. Twenty-eight weeks on, many of the infected have starved, and NATO troops led by the US move settlers into a guarded part of London. Don and Alice's children, Tammy and Andy, arrive with the settlers and are housed in District One, the guarded zone on the Isle of Dogs. At dawn the two slip away to their old home.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 28 Weeks Later (2007)
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- Casting director Shaheen Baig looked well beyond drama schools and put more than 600 children through workshops before settling on Mackintosh Muggleton, while Imogen Poots landed Tammy after hundreds of actresses had auditioned.
- Because the sequel needed far more Infected than the first film, movement specialist Paul Kasey ran camera tests with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and then recruited performers out of dance, gymnastics, mime and circus, drilling them in workshops so the horde behaved as one.
- Canary Wharf was chosen for the military safe zone District One because it is ringed by water and linked to City Airport by an elevated railway, details the story could present as a secure, sealed entrance.
- Rather than digitally removing lights, the crew used "day for night" photography to sell the blacked-out city, and still finished hundreds of computer-generated shots on a squeezed post-production schedule.
SPOILER
The Paris coda was thought up near the very end of production and shot in a hurry on HD cameras with a stripped-down crew.- Danny Boyle, director of the first film, stayed involved beyond his executive producer credit: he helped with casting and crew and shot three days of second unit footage, including part of the much-praised opening sequence.
- Composer John Murphy had planned to hold back "In the House - In a Heartbeat" from the first film until late in the sequel, then saw it used in the opening, decided it bridged the two films and rearranged it for that sequence.
