Danny Boyle's latest zombie film, shot on an iPhone 15, comes 28 years after his first hit.

But zooming in reveals that the lengthy lens isn’t hooked up to an everyday digital camera physique or a high-end modular system such because the Achtel 9×7. Instead, it's related to a protecting cage holding one thing that might be an iPhone, an expert digital camera operator not concerned with the film instructed WIRED.

The use of Apple smartphones because the principal digital camera system on 28 Years Later was subsequently confirmed to WIRED by a number of folks related with the film, detailing that the actual mannequin used to shoot was the iPhone 15 Pro Max. (Evidently, filming came about too early for Boyle and Mantle to get their arms on the brand new iPhone 16 sequence.)

The iPhone within the paparazzi picture is held by an aluminum cage fitted with a lens attachment adapter. Beast makes such cages and adapters, adjusted with distinctive pink knobs (there’s such an adjustment knob seen within the {photograph}), and its latest DOF (depth of field) adapter permits the attachment of full-frame DSLR lenses to smartphones. The lens-shaped adapter, launched in March, tasks the picture from the DSLR lens onto the floor of its display screen, and the smartphone data this projection.

Several arthouse films have been shot with iPhones, together with Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and the Steven Soderbergh drama Unsane (2018), however these motion pictures had been limited-release, low-budget choices in comparison with 28 Years Later. The new movie’s $75 million budget is simply a part of the franchise’s whole, with 28 Years Later being the first of a new trilogy; all three coming zombie movies are being scripted by screenwriter Alex Garland, who's reuniting with Boyle and Mantle after helming Civil War, launched earlier this yr.

Another key crew member from the 2002 film is again for at the least one movie within the new trilogy: Long earlier than his razor-blades-in-flat-caps function within the gritty TV present Peaky Blinders—or his Oscar-winning, Bhagavad Gita–quoting efficiency in Oppenheimer (2023)—Cillian Murphy’s breakout function was because the lead actor in 28 Days Later. A full-frontal huge shot of him mendacity bare on a gurney was Murphy’s introduction to the limelight. (Murphy didn’t seem within the Boyle-produced 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later. This film, starring Robert Carlyle and Idris Elba, and directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, was shot on movie, and enjoys the identical cult standing because the first.)

There are not any particulars but on the plot for 28 Years Later, or whether or not Murphy stars in all three motion pictures of the upcoming trilogy.

In the unique film, Murphy, then simply 26, performed Jim, a confused bicycle messenger waking from a coma in a abandoned London hospital a month after being hit and injured in an unseen crash. In memorable scenes of a desolate London, Jim walks from the hospital and slowly discovers he’s one of many few to not have caught a virus that causes “infecteds” to feast on human flesh.