By Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” the upcoming revival of the “28 Days Later” franchise, has become the biggest movie to date to be filmed with smartphones.
A new feature in WIRED has revealed that Boyle shot the $75 million-budgeted movie this past summer with a “bunch of adapted iPhone 15s”.
This fits in line with the original “28 Days Later” back in 2002 which was partly shot with a Canon XL-1, at the time a $4,000 prosumer camcorder which recorded on MiniDV.
Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle also returns, he and Boyle having worked together numerous times since then including “Slumdog Millionaire,” “T2 Trainspotting” and “127 Hours”.
Filming wrapped in late August with details of the shoot and filming tech under wraps. A paparazzi photograph did capture long lenses attached to what appeared to be an aluminium-caged iPhone’
Subsequently, several people connected with the movie confirm to the outlet that the film was shot with the iPhone 15 Pro Max which was released last year.
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can shoot Apple ProRes video in log color profile at 4K resolution. The cage seen is fitted with a lens attachment adapter allowing the attachment of full-frame DSLR lenses to smartphones.
Sean Baker’s “Tangerine” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Unsane” were shot with iPhones, but those are low-budget arthouse films – not solid blockbusters – especially one that’s kicking off a whole new trilogy.
It has also been revealed that some scenes were shot with action cams strapped to farm animals which the feature’s writers dub ‘GoatPro’.
Alex Garland and Boyle co-write the new film which co-stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding and recent Oscar winner Cillian Murphy reprising his role from the original in a cameo.
The first film was shot on a tight budget of $8 million, going on to earn $84.6 million worldwide and spawning various imitators.
Source: WIRED
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