Trivia for the movie 28 Weeks Later
Memorable Movie Quotes
Scarlet: Have you come in contact with… the infected?
Trivia
Most of the filming of the US Army Camp took place during the weekend of 21st/22nd October 2006 in the courtyard outside the Citypoint Building, Ropemaker Street, London EC2. A large number of tents with US flags, cast in military dress and vehicles were in place. Additionally access to the sub-floor car park area appears to have been given to shoot an underground scene.
All of the night scenes involving Andy, Tammy, Scarlet, Doyle and Sam’s journey across London to escape the bombs were shot day-for-night using a new technique created specifically for the film by director of photography Enrique Chediak. The scenes were shot day-for-night for three reasons. Firstly, because the filmmakers weren’t allowed to use Mackintosh Muggleton (Andy) at night time. Secondly, because there is supposed to be a total shut down of all power in London, hence every building must appear light-less. However, if one were to actually shoot at night time in London, this would be impossible to capture photo-realistically and would hence involve complex post-production work removing all of the lights. By shooting during the day time however, there are few lights on in most buildings anyway, and as such, when the day-for-night treatment is applied to the film stock, everything in the image darkens equally, thus giving the impression that all of the buildings are in total darkness. Thirdly, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has always been a big fan of the ‘ghostly’ quality day-for-night shooting has, and he felt it would create the perfect sense of unease for the film.
The farm that Don and Alice hide out in the start of the film is the same farm that appears in Children of Men.
The boy who arrives at the cottage at the beginning of the film claims to be from Sandford. Sandford is the name of the ‘fake’ village that was used by British police to practice emergency preparedness drills. It’s also the fictitious locale for the action comedy Hot Fuzz.
Danny Boyle couldn’t direct the sequel because of his commitments to Sunshine. Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris couldn’t come back for the sequel either because of other commitments.
Danny Boyle directed some of the second unit filming, and also directed one first unit sequence; the scene in the barn near the start of the film where Sally (Amanda Walker) and Geoff (Garfield Morgan) are killed.
The iconic last shot was a last minute addition to the movie. The shooting script ends with the shot of the parked helicopter, and this was supposed to be how the film ended. However, two days before the locked off edit was supposed to be handed in to Fox Searchlight for distribution, writer/director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, writer/producer Enrique López Lavigne and co-producer Bernard Bellew flew to Paris to shoot the scene with which the film now ends. This scene was conceived at the last minute by Fresnadillo and López Lavigne, and was shot completely guerrilla style, with only the three crewmen, twelve local actors hired on the day of the shoot, and one DV camera. Sound for the scene was rapidly mixed back in London, and the shot was hastily added to the end of the film.
Goofs
(At 72:56) Doyle fires his gun three times to kill four infected men. However, at the third shot, two of them fall, but since they weren’t lined, it would be impossible to kill both men with only one shot.
Scarlett wears her hair in a ponytail while in uniform. The US Army requires females in uniform to wear their hair above their collar.
In the surgery scenes, people are only wearing surgical masks. The virus is transferred via blood and body fluids, so everyone in quarantine should have worn goggles, especially the doctor.
(12:53-13:54) A plane is shown landing at London City Airport. Many of the buildings and equipment seen are unique to London Stansted Airport.
Right after the virus breaks out again and the medical officer grabs the two kids from isolation she is trying to get them out of the building when a soldier stops them. The soldier keeps calling her “sir” when in fact female officers in the US armed forces are addressed as “ma’am” by those of lesser rank, not “sir”.
When Flynn is hovering next to Doyle, you can clearly see the stunt pilot, wearing a black balaclava, glasses, and a radio headset.
After repeated attempts to start the car using the starter, Doyle decides to push-start the car to help Andy, Scarlet and Tammy escape the gas. Push-starting only works when the battery doesn’t have enough power to activate the starter. Since the starter was working, push-starting would be useless.
When Andy is jumping on the trampoline, the grass is trimmed. After 6 months of neglect, the grass would be overgrown, and the trampoline covered in debris.
Box Office Info In USA
Gross $28,637,507
Filming Locations
Aldwych Underground Station, Aldwych, Holborn, London, England, UK (running down track)
Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK
Charing Cross Underground Station, Charing Cross, London, England, UK
Charing Cross, London, England, UK
CityPoint, Moorgate, London, England, UK
Dover, Kent, England, UK (aerial shots)
Greenwich Foot Tunnel, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK
Hyde Park, London, England, UK
London, England, UK
Millenium Bridge, River Thames, London, England, UK
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, UK (as Wembley Stadium)
Palais de Chaillot, Paris 16, Paris, France
Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England, UK
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England, UK
Therapia Road, East Dulwich, London, England, UK
Three Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, Bow, London, England, UK
Trafalgar Square, St James’s, London, England, UK
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London, England, UK (exteriors)