Danny was particularly interested in issues that had to do with social rage - the increase of rage in our society, road rage, and other things.

вЂњLots of stuff was happening in this country that felt like the right kind of social subtext or social commentary that you could put in a science fiction film. вЂњt was just a paranoid story coming out of the paranoid time,вЂќ Garland said in the same Filmmaker interview. Not having the money can be a problem or it can be a kind of freedom, and for us it was a freedom.вЂќДЄlthough Boyle had brought GarlandвЂ™s novel to theaters with The Beach, the two really hadnвЂ™t worked much together, but they clicked on the underlying themes of 28 Days Later. вЂњWe wanted it to be just ordinary people. вЂњNormally making a a huge budget, but we wanted to keep the budget down to about $6 million, and we did that because we didnвЂ™t want any stars in it,вЂќ Boyle later told Filmmaker. After flirting with the Hollywood system, this down-and-dirty zombie flick was BoyleвЂ™s way of getting back to basics. But by the time he prepped 28 Days Later, he seemed to be in a slump: His Trainspotting follow-up A Life Less Ordinary was largely dismissed and The Beach had bombed - partly because it was DiCaprioвЂ™s first film after Titanic, which put unreasonable expectations on the movie. The celebrated English director had launched onto the scene thanks to the Hitchcockian thriller Shallow Grave and then delivered one of the decadeвЂ™s most zeitgeist-y films with the addiction drama Trainspotting, both of which helped make a young actor named Ewan McGregor a star. Danny Boyle wasnвЂ™t necessarily the director youвЂ™d think of to help launch that resurgence. But the early 2000s saw a resurgence in the genre, sparked largely by 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, which were both shot around roughly the same time in 2001. Why was it a big deal at the time? Coming out of the 1990s, zombie movies werenвЂ™t very fashionable. 28 Days Later meant to chronicle the end of the world, but it ended up opening an exciting new era in mainstream genre films. That doesnвЂ™t end up working out quite like they imagined, and BoyleвЂ™s intentionally low-grade digital cameras capture every horrifying moment along their bruising odyssey. Jim teams up with some other survivors, including Naomie Harris and Brendan Gleeson, eventually making their way to what they believe will be safe haven from the virus. (Few who have seen 28 Days Later will forget this fearsome bit of graffiti: вЂњRepent The End Is Extremely F***ing Nigh.вЂќ) Bad news, Jim: While you were sleeping civilization has been decimated by a virus called Rage that has turned humans against one another, creating a bleak post-apocalyptic scenario. The Britain-set thriller starred Cillian Murphy as Jim, a regular bloke who wakes up in the hospital following a coma. вЂњIn my mind, it was this sort of punk film,вЂќ Garland once said. theaters the previous November - the film rethought the horror genre and proved to be a chilling post-9/11 commentary at the same time. Released on June 27, 2003, in the States - it had hit U.K. Viewers can argue about whether 28 Days Later is technically a zombie film - people arenвЂ™t dead, theyвЂ™re just infected by a virus that makes them seem zombie-like - but just about everyone agrees that itвЂ™s one incredibly scary movie. Initially, I was working with Andrew Macdonald, who I still work with now actually, and I said to him that I had an idea for a movie about running zombies.вЂќДў8 Days Later was his first produced screenplay - The Beach had been adapted by frequent Boyle collaborator John Hodge - and, right out of the gate, heвЂ™d come up with a classic. It just looked like a lot of fun, really. вЂњI had been writing novels up until that point,вЂќ Garland recalled in 2016, вЂњand just the idea of a collaboration seemed very attractive to me. But that transition from author to big-screen auteur first materialized when director Danny Boyle was making The Beach, which inspired Garland to think about a future in movies. A former novelist who wrote The Beach, which got turned into the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, the 51-year-old writer/director penned the screenplays for some of the smartest and most interesting sci-fi films this century with Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd before stepping behind the camera for Ex Machina and Annihilation. There may be no more exciting genre filmmaker working right now than Alex Garland. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the worldвЂ™s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.

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