But if you zoom in, you’ll see that this long lens isn’t attached to a regular camera body or a high-end modular system like the Achtel 9×7. Instead, it’s connected to a protective cage that holds what could be an iPhone, a professional camera operator not involved in the film told WIRED.
It has since been confirmed to WIRED by several people involved in the film that an Apple smartphone was used as the primary camera system for the movie 28 Years Later, and that the specific model used for filming was an iPhone 15 Pro Max. It was explained in detail. (Apparently, filming happened too soon for Boyle and Mantle to get their hands on the new iPhone 16 series.)
The iPhone in the paparazzi photo is held in an aluminum cage with a lens mounting adapter attached. Beast manufactures cages and adapters like this one, which are adjusted with a distinctive red knob (you can see such an adjustment knob in the photo) and with their latest DOF (depth of field) adapter. , you can attach a full-frame DSLR lens to your smartphone. The lens-shaped adapter, released in March, projects the image from a digital SLR camera lens onto the screen surface, and the smartphone records the projection.
Several arthouse films have been shot on iPhones, such as Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and Steven Soderbergh’s drama Unsane (2018), but these films are 28 years old. Compared to ‘Later’, it was a low-budget work with a limited release. The new film’s $75 million budget is only part of the entire series, and 28 Years Later is the first in a new trilogy. All three upcoming zombie movies are written by screenwriter Alex Garland, who reunites with Boyle and Mantle after directing “Civil War,” released earlier this year.
Another key team member from the 2002 film will return for at least one film in the new trilogy. That was long before he starred in the gritty TV show “Peaky Blinders” and in the Oscar-winning “Bhagavad Gita,” where he played the razor-blade, flat-hatted character. Citing his performance in Oppenheimer (2023) — Cillian Murphy’s big break was as the lead actor in 28 Days Later. A wide frontal shot of Murphy lying naked on a stretcher propelled him into the spotlight. (Murphy did not appear in Boyle’s 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later.) The film, starring Robert Carlyle and Idris Elba and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, It was filmed in 2013 and enjoys the same cult status as its predecessor.
Details about the plot of 28 Years Later and whether Murphy will appear in all three films in the upcoming trilogy are still under wraps.
In the original film, Murphy, who was only 26 at the time, played Jim, a deranged bicycle messenger who is injured in an unseen crash and wakes up from a coma in a deserted London hospital a month later. In a memorable scene of devastated London, Jim walks out of the hospital and gradually realizes that he is one of the few who has not been infected by a virus that causes the “infected” to devour human flesh.
