28 Weeks Later
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| German title | 28 Weeks Later |
| Original title | 28 Weeks Later |
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| Country of production |
Great Britain Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 JMK 16 |
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| Director | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo |
| script |
Rowan Joffe Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Jesús Olmo Enrique López Lavigne |
| production |
Andrew Macdonald Allon Reich Enrique López Lavigne |
| music | John Murphy |
| camera | Enrique Chediak |
| cut | Chris Gill |
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28 Weeks Later is the sequel to Danny Boyle's End Times - horror thriller 28 Days Later and was created in 2007 . The director was the Spaniard Juan Carlos Fresnadillo . The film was shown in German cinemas on August 30, 2007 .
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Don lives with his wife Alice and a few other survivors in a makeshift cottage somewhere in the middle of anger-infected Great Britain . They were eating when they heard a boy knock on the door from the outside. Against his better judgment, Don opens the door under pressure from his wife to let in the frightened child who has escaped a horde of infected people. They quickly discover the hiding place, break into the house and overwhelm the group. Don leaves his wife, who wanted to save the child, behind and escapes in a small motorboat as the supposed last survivor.
Overlays summarize the past 28 weeks:
- 15 days later: the UK is under quarantine provided
- 28 days later: Britain's population is wiped out (events of the first part 28 Days Later begin)
- 5 weeks later: The infected died of starvation
- 11 weeks later: A NATO force led by the USA occupies London
- 18 weeks later: Britain is declared infection free
- 24 weeks later: Reconstruction begins
- 28 weeks later: (The following events in the film begin)
28 weeks later, Britain is declared safe and a US-led NATO force begins to repopulate the country and remove all traces of the disease. Among them are sniper Doyle, helicopter pilot Flynn and Scarlett, the commanding officer of the medical unit. Scarlett has to take care of two children, Andy and Tammy, who have just arrived in the safety zone. She is upset that her supervisors have not informed her that children will now also be allowed into the zone. When she examines Andy, she finds out that he inherited two different eye colors from his mother .
Andy and Tammy are taken to District 1, a part of London with electricity and running water. The area, also known as the " Isle of Dogs ", is surrounded on three sides by water and is therefore easy to guard and defend. The military presence is enormous: snipers, tanks and machine gun emplacements are omnipresent. However, the soldiers are bored of their uneventful "combat mission". Andy and Tammy are taken to their father, who turns out to be Don and now works as the district administrator. In their new apartment, Don tells the two of his escape to a military base and the fate of their mother, omitting some details and saying that he could not help her. The next day the children illegally leave the security zone and go to their old house to gather some personal belongings. There they find their mother Alice, who is still alive, in a hiding place. Andy and Tammy are quickly recaptured by the military and Alice is quarantined. Examination of Alice's blood sample reveals that although she is infected, she appears to have genetic immunity to the virus. That makes them a host that can transmit the virus.
Don learns of his wife's survival and visits his children, who are upset and disappointed that their father made them believe that their mother is dead. Thanks to his position, he has a key card with which he can gain access anywhere. After visiting his children, he goes to Alice, who is tied up but unguarded. He asks for forgiveness, which his weakened wife - at least ostensibly - grants him. They kiss, but Don becomes infected and kills Alice in his virus-induced madness. He leaves the building in District 1, attacks soldiers and civilians, infecting them as well, causing the virus to spread again. The military sounded the alarm and the soldiers were ordered to evacuate the civilians. Scarlett rescues the trapped children by shooting an infected soldier from behind who is about to enter the quarantine room and attack the children. She would like to take the two of them with the fleeing crowd on the open streets, but the soldiers denied her. The soldiers force the civilians into an underground car park, as it is said, for their own protection. Andy is separated from Scarlett and Tammy and also gets into there. The soldiers bolt the doors and Scarlett and Tammy stay outside.
When Andy arrives in the underground car park, he looks for a quiet spot away from the panicked crowd. Immediately afterwards he hears a loud knock on a rear door. As he looks through the window in the door, he suddenly sees his infected father, who shortly thereafter breaks into the underground car park. Andy can barely dive into the crowd and crawl into an air shaft to escape him. Don infects several people, but many non-infected people manage to break out of the underground car park and flee onto the street. There, the military is initially ordered to only shoot at infected people. When this demarcation becomes impossible because due to the darkness, the further infections and the emerging panic of the refugees, clear targets can no longer be identified, the order for complete annihilation is given. The soldiers are supposed to shoot everything that moves, and accidentally fire at comrades. When the sniper Doyle hears this order, he begins to doubt. However, he initially follows his order until he suddenly targets Andy. He arrived on his escape through the ventilation system on the roof and is currently being threatened by an infected person. Doyle shoots the infected person, but leaves Andy alive, who escapes into a factory where there are other survivors. Now Doyle consciously decides to shoot one of his comrades from a rooftop opposite because he was attacked by infected people. This lets Doyle realize that the situation is completely out of control and leads him to seek retreat. He leaves his position and also runs into the factory. There he meets Scarlett and the children and flees with them and a few other survivors from District 1. Snipers and infected people gradually kill the civilians who are fleeing with them. Immediately after the four have left District 1, it is destroyed with napalm bombs .
Scarlett tells Doyle at an abandoned amusement park that the children are key to a cure for the infection. Both agree that their lives are more precious than their own. Flynn, who is in constant radio contact with Doyle, appears with his helicopter. He is only willing to take Doyle with him, but Doyle refuses. Suddenly a large number of infected people appear, most of which are chopped up by Flynn by tilting the helicopter with the rotor blades. The meadow is now littered with body parts and Doyle can first kill the remaining attackers with his rifle. However, more infected people appear immediately afterwards, so that the four of them have to flee the park on foot onto the streets. While Flynn flies away, he names Wembley Stadium as the next meeting point.
Meanwhile, the military sprayed poison gas in the streets. The group gets into an abandoned car in order to have protection from this gas and to be able to escape the infected. Unfortunately, however, the vehicle cannot be started and the pursuers reach the vehicle. But before they can get into the car, they are killed by the pulling gas. Soldiers in protective suits and flamethrowers slowly emerge from the gas plumes . Doyle decides to get out to push the car. Although he suspects he will die in the process, he tries to reassure Scarlett that they will meet again. Shortly after Doyle pushes and the engine has started, the soldiers burn him before he can get back in. Scarlett and the children narrowly escape with the vehicle, despite the fire from the automatic cannon of an attack helicopter . To escape this, Scarlett drives the vehicle up a flight of stairs into the London Underground , which is pitch dark. The three want to continue on foot via an escalator on which many dead are lying. Scarlett tries to direct the children past the corpses with the help of the night vision device on Doyle's rifle. As Tammy trips and pulls Andy down with her, the trio is separated. While trying to find the children at the foot of the escalator, Scarlett is overwhelmed by the suddenly appearing Don and killed with the gun. When Don bites his son Andy, Tammy picks up the rifle and uses it to shoot her father.
Andy initially runs away fearing the consequences of his injury from an infected person, but is immediately found by Tammy. Despite being bitten, Andy shows no symptoms of the plague, other than eyes that are slowly turning blood red. Although Tammy notices this, she does not tell her brother that he is now, like his mother once, probably the host of the virus. After Tammy calms him down, the children continue on their way to Wembley Stadium. There they are taken by Flynn in a helicopter, which leaves Great Britain with them over the white cliffs of Dover and the English Channel .
28 days later, the crashed helicopter can be seen while someone with a French accent calls for help by radio. It's unclear whether Flynn, Tammy, or Andy survived. In the last scene you can see infected people running through the Trocadéro underground station towards the Eiffel Tower . The virus has reached France and with it mainland Europe .
Production history and locations
As early as 2002 - after the great success of 28 Days Later - a sequel to the end-time horror thriller was planned. However, the then director Danny Boyle stated in March 2005 that he would not direct the sequel but would appear as a producer. In May 2005 it was announced by Boyle that Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris - the main characters from the first part - would not take part in the sequel because they were prevented by other projects.
Filming began in London in September 2006 and was completed in early 2007. The film was shot largely in the British capital, namely on and in Isle of Dogs , Canary Wharf , Charing Cross , Charing Cross and Aldwych underground stations , CityPoint , Greenwich pedestrian tunnel , Hyde Park , Parliament Square , Shaftesbury Avenue , Therapia Road ; other scenes were created in the Three Mills Island Studios and at the White Cliffs of Dover . The final scene was shot on the Place du Trocadéro in Paris . The scene at the end of the film in which Flynn takes the children with him by helicopter was not - as shown in the film - in the newly built Wembley Stadium, but in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff .
Gross profit
The film grossed around $ 64 million in cinemas worldwide.
continuation
In March 2007, producer Boyle - who directed the first part, 28 Days Later - announced that he was planning another sequel to end the trilogy . The third part should then be called 28 Months Later . After its presentation, the film should then take place in Moscow and not in France, where the second film 28 Weeks Later came to an end. The story should then be continued in this film, Boyle should also direct again himself. In July 2007, the Fox film studio Atomic - a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox - announced that it would produce the third part. Fox Atomic has already produced 28 Weeks Later . Paul Andrew Williams will act as the director . According to Boyle's statement from April 2013, however, it cannot be assumed that a third part of the series will be produced.
In October 2015, Danny Boyle spoke again about a sequel in an interview with IndieWire. Boyle: "It's the usual: it's not about whether people think you should be a director, it's about whether the script is appealing or not." Regarding the script, he reveals: “It is far from finished, but some work has already been put in. It is currently in a process and I would have no qualms about being involved. It's fascinating what has happened to the zombie genre since we made the first film. "
Reviews
“An extremely tough, but always coherent and consistent against the norms of current Hollywood genre cinema, staged end-time horror film. The intense and oppressive scenes are contrasted by camera work that is too erratic. "
“Hard to believe - but 28 Weeks Later surpasses its predecessor 28 Days Later by far! Even the incredibly exciting opening sequence will cause panic in the cinema! Director Fresnadillo stages the sheer horror extremely effectively. With a hand-held camera, he is always directly involved in the action and thus ensures an extremely realistic atmosphere. Fast cuts and often very dark recordings add to the psychological horror. Together with a completely believable story, the best horror film of the year so far was created. Ingenious - makes your pulse race! "
“'28 Weeks Later 'brutally paints a future ruled by zombies . Nevertheless, the horror film has more to offer than shock effects: it shows the disintegration of the community in a ghostly, clear manner . "
Gernot Gricksch wrote in TV Digital 18 on August 24, 2007 that this was a truly gruesome story, shot by hand camera , the documentary images would make the horror doubly noticeable and this film would go to the kidneys. "A horror film without any antics - dark, bitter and extremely exciting."
When asked about the rather negative role of the US military in the film, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo said in an interview with TVMovie that the film should in a way also deal with the war. He wanted to convey the feeling for a situation that was getting out of control. In this respect, 28 Weeks Later also had something to do with the situation in Iraq at the time.
Web links
- 28 Weeks Later in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 28 Weeks Later at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 28 Weeks Later . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 236 K).
- ↑ Age rating for 28 Weeks Later . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Image from scifi.com ( memento of March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 8, 2012
- ↑ a b imdb.com
- ↑ 28 Weeks Later (2007) - Box Office Mojo. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
- ↑ BeyondHollywood.com . July 17, 2007. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 13, 2007.
- ↑ Danny Boyle looks black for 28 Months Later . April 16, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ↑ Sequel to the end-of-time film "28 Weeks Later" is to come . October 14, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ Criticism in the mirror
