'28 Years Later' was shot on iPhone 15s. The actors loved it.
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Jun 20, 2025
Mashable chats to director Danny Boyle and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Alfie Williams.
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The film was shot on iPhone
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How was that for you as actors to use that technology? Yeah, it was very new
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I mean, it was such a different experience. I'm calling, you know, very..
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Same for you, I guess. You don't know any difference. But I guess, yeah, it was very experimental, you know
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and I think that sort of set the ground for Danny and everyone
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that it was just, yeah, everything was very bold choices and experimental so we could explore
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but when someone puts an iPhone very close, you feel, it's a bit intrusive, you know
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You feel kind of vulnerable and you can't hide. There's this quality about it that just shows everything
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and it meant that we just had to kind of feel very present in the moment
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and it was just gonna capture these moments. And so it became, you got used to it very quickly
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and it became such a great environment to work around. Yeah. You're just like, yeah
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And he like well I do that all the time We make movies on iPhones all the time With Donnie Boyle Yeah Don don look at what in front of you Bulls bulls bulls bulls moving up and down again
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The world has moved on so much since we made the first film
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and we used for very specific, kind of almost story reasons. At one point, we were going to have a scene in the first film
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where a character picked up a discarded domestic video camera that was left on the ground along with all the cash
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and everything that's been left behind and is now all useless. And it still worked
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The battery was still live. And you could see evidence of the horrors or something touching or something like that
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So we thought we'll make the film on those cameras for all sorts of reasons. It allowed us to do the opening sequence in a clever way so that we could..
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But technology's moved on. And we thought we've got to move on. and yet we want to respect that instinct
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which is to use the ordinary in some way. So it feels like it something that come from the place that the story is about And of course we all got the phones though so we decided to use them they lightweight they do they now record at 4k but they allowed us to visit
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places remote places in the uk with a very light footprint so we use but we use a lot of cameras
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we used we didn't just use the iphones we used some special there's a red sequence in it that's
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used this special panasonic camera the eu123 i think it's called and we use drones which use
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of like 6k cameras and we unified everything with a format with a 276 with a widescreen format which
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you can do now with all these cameras and um it's a beautiful format it's not very much used it's
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only been used in a handful of films weirdly over the years um but but recently sinners used it and
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the creator used it oppenheimer used it hateful eight is shot in it and i love the way tarantino
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uses widescreen he's wonderful the way he edits as well he edits in a very different way than i
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at it he lets you select as a watcher where you're watching
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because you have to select on a wide screen and I like that unease it creates when you watch this it allows nature to be portrayed but it also the danger could be anywhere within that broad scope so so yeah it
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was exciting and it allowed us to we wanted to depict some of the violence in a very particular
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way which is like a poor man's bullet time the matrix technique right so we used we were able
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to get a lot of these cameras for free and kind of like stack them and then use this technique
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which you see a couple of times in the film to surround an event and to kind of be able to kind
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of flip around the different sides of it and sort of my dream is it's trying to you're here watching
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it and my dream is always to get you to go to flip inside it and then back out again and we haven't
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got that technology yet but one day where you just like astral projects into inside what you're
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enjoying. So anyways, but it's a kind of little way of doing that, it's a little technical
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way of doing that
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