Where was 28 Days Later... filmed
28 Days Later...
Year: 2002
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: United Kingdom
<p>The movie 28 Days Later was filmed in and around London, UK. The choice of the city was due to two things - the crew was from the UK, and the movie was shot on a very modest budget, so it would not have been possible to travel far. Second - the director needed to show abandoned but recognizable locations. That's why London was perfect, and since the team had little money and it would have been very expensive to block the main streets of London, the shooting in the center took place in the predawn hours, which is noticeable by the sun and lighting in the scenes. But one scene was filmed outside London. This is the scene where scientists release a group of infected chimpanzees. The filmmakers couldn't find suitable monkeys in the UK, so they went to Studgard, Germany, to shoot the movie.</p>
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Locations
Apartment Building
In movie
Scene where Jimmy and Sienna notice a working garland on the window of a house and decide to go inside the apartment, where they meet Frank and his daughter and find out how their household works.
Canary Wharf Station
In movie
Scene where Jim along with the two survivors who brought him up to speed and accepted him into their gang escapes from the zombies and goes down into the subway, the escalators don't work and so they have to run down the stationary stairs.
Real
Scene was shot at Canary Wharf station on the London Underground's Jubilee Line, built in 1999 to accommodate the rapidly growing number of passengers. The station was chosen for filming also because of its location, as it is in the center of the city.
Church
In movie
Scene where Jim continues to explore the empty town and peeks into the church, he stands on an interior balcony and observes from above that there are hundreds of corpses on the first floor. But they begin to come to life and an infected walks onto the balcony. This is his first encounter with zombies.
Real
Scene was shot at St. Anne's, which is a small Catholic church in the Limehouse district. What is interesting is that it is one of the few locations in the movie that is not in reality where it is in the story. Limehouse is a neighborhood to the east of central London and it's quite far to get there from the route the main character takes. Obviously, the more famous churches in the city center didn't fit because they didn't have a large balcony inside the building or they didn't want to do the zombie shoot indoors.
Destroyed Bus
In movie
Scene where
Entering the tunnel
In movie
Scene where the whole company - Jimmy, Sienna, Frank and his daughter drive a specially prepared car to the asylum and come to a car tunnel. They have doubts about whether it is safe to drive through the tunnel, as it may be filled with infected people, but they decide it is worth the risk and drive through it.
Real
Scene was shot the Blackwall Tunnel is a road running under the Thames, connecting Greenwich and the northern part of the city, and also leading to the highway on the way out of the city. Perhaps that's why the tunnel appears in the shot, as the characters want to go far north, but in general it's not the only way to cross the river. The scene was shot at the southern entrance on the Greenwich side.
Horse Guards Parade
In movie
Scene where
Hospital (exterior)
In movie
Scene where Jim walks out of the empty hospital, he wanders the corridors for a long time and finds no one. But there is no one outside either, he looks out into the parking lot, there are several ambulances and no one there. He decides to leave the hospital to explore the city.
Real
Scene was shot at St. Thomas's Hospital, located off Westminster Bridge. It is a large hospital located in the very center of the city, i.e. at the real beginning of Jim's journey. This place is very crowded, and the parking lot is always full, so the director shooting here wants to show us the contrast between reality and the empty corridors and the street in front of the building.
Hospital (lobby)
In movie
Scene where Jim is lying in the hospital, he was in a coma and stayed that way for 28 days. He gets out of bed and realizes that the hospital is abandoned, he goes down to the first floor, finds a drink and wanders the corridors, but does not meet a soul around.
Real
Scene was shot at Middlesex Central Hospital, it has an interesting lobby architecture with lots of light. According to the plot of the movie, given that Jim goes out downtown, the hospital in the story is St. Thomas Hospital, it is located at Westminster Bridge, across from Big Ben.
Intersection
In movie
Scene where Jim walks out to the crossroads in front of the Royal Bank of Scotland. It's practically the center of the city, but there's still not a single living person there. He slowly walks straight down the automobile road, not understanding where he should go next and what the reason for the deserted streets is.
Real
Scene was shot at the intersection of five streets in front of the bank. Usually it is one of the busiest intersections in London. The creators had to close the streets, because even in the dawn hours, when the movie was filmed there were a lot of people. As we can see it was filmed in those moments when glass skyscrapers were not erected behind the bank.
Pedestrian Bridge
In movie
Scene where Jimmy goes to the shelter with two other survivors who tell him about what has happened in the world during his coma.