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- Director Danny Boyle said he strapped a camera to farm animals while filming "28 Years Later."The director used iPhones and drones to shoot footage because they were lightweight.Boyle said this also made filming "way, way cheaper."
Many Hollywood directors use expensive cameras to film their blockbusters. Danny Boyle's approach to filming his zombie sequel "28 Years Later" was a bit more… experimental.
"We did strap a camera to some animals a couple of times — yeah, a goat," Boyle told Business Insider.
The director, whose 2002 horror classic "28 Days Later" was shot on digital cameras for a deliberately lo-fi look, was keen to take a similarly unconventional approach with his follow-up film two decades later.
The movie, written by Alex Garland, follows 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) as he leaves his secluded island home for the first time with his father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and comes face-to-face with hordes of people infected with the Rage Virus.
To capture their terrifying encounters with zombies, Boyle told BI he relied on iPhones, drones, and yes, those goats. While Boyle said the goat shot didn't make it into the final cut, the tactic prompted him to try strapping a camera to a new variant of the infected, called the "Slow-Low," which crawls on the ground eating bugs.
"Having done it with the goats, you then think, 'Oh!'" Boyle said. That Slow-Low shot made it into the film — and into the trailer, too.