Filmmakers Used 20 iPhones at Once to Shoot '28 Years Later'

Sony contiguous provided a person look astatine the iPhone rigs utilized to sprout the upcoming post-apocalyptic British fearfulness movie "28 Years Later" (via IGN).


With a fund of $75 million, Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later volition go the archetypal large blockbuster movie to beryllium changeable connected ‌iPhone‌. 28 Years Later is the sequel to "28 Days Later" (2002) and "28 Weeks Later" (2007), which picture the aftermath of a zombie-style pandemic successful the United Kingdom.

The movie was changeable past summertime utilizing the ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max arsenic the main camera, on with further instrumentality specified arsenic customized rigs, aluminum cages, and lens attachments. The filmmakers down 28 Years Later seemingly received method assistance straight from Apple.



Speaking to IGN, Boyle said that adjacent though the movie is mostly changeable connected iPhones, the movie is ambitiously inactive successful afloat 2.76:1 widescreen–which is typically reserved for IMAX oregon Ultra Panavision 70mm. Some sequences utilized up to 20 iPhones astatine a time, akin to "bullet time." Boyle explained:

Wherever, it gives you 180 degrees of imaginativeness of an action, and successful the editing you tin prime immoderate prime from it, either a accepted one-camera position oregon marque your mode instantly astir reality, time-slicing the subject, jumping guardant oregon backward for emphasis. As it's a fearfulness movie, we usage it for the convulsive scenes to emphasise their impact.

I besides similar it for the aforesaid crushed I emotion jumping the line. For a infinitesimal the assemblage is wrong the scene, the action, alternatively than classically observing a picture. You consciousness similar you're successful the country with Jodie Comer and her son, venting her rage astatine Aaron Taylor Johnson, similar you’re successful the abandoned bid with the bare alpha and the unzipped spine and head.

The archetypal 28 Days Later movie was mostly changeable successful 480p modular explanation with a Canon XL-1 – a consumer-grade camcorder that wrote information to MiniDV tapes. This was partially owed to the request to movie analyzable scenes depicting an abandoned cardinal London nether precise constricted clip constraints, wherever bulky accepted movie cameras would person taken excessively agelong to acceptable up.


The unsocial shot-on-digital aesthetic subsequently became an iconic portion of the movie, truthful the usage of iPhones to sprout the latest summation to the bid pays homage to the archetypal film's usage of camcorders. The Oscar-winning cinematographer of the archetypal movie, Anthony Dod Mantle, returns alongside Boyle.

I ne'er accidental this, but determination is an unthinkable changeable successful the 2nd fractional [of the film] wherever we usage the 20-rig camera, and you'll cognize it erstwhile you spot it. … It's rather graphic but it's a fantastic changeable that uses that technique, and successful a startling mode that benignant of kicks you into a caller satellite alternatively than reasoning you've seen it before.

Several smaller-scale movies person already been changeable with iPhones, specified arsenic Sean Baker's "Tangerine" (2015) and Steven Soderbergh's "Unsane" (2018), but these films were limited-release, low-budget titles compared to the upcoming Boyle movie. 28 Years Later is expected to beryllium the archetypal of a caller trilogy of films scripted by Alex Garland. The breakout prima of the archetypal movie, Cillian Murphy, is besides expected to return. 28 Years Later is acceptable for merchandise connected June 20, 2025.
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