28 Years Later: Danny Boyle’s New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15

Even though professional, cinema-quality digital cameras are now commonplace, they’re generally not small or compact. (Take a look at Arri’s current lineup, for example, with its [Mini LF](https://www.arri.com/en/camera-systems/cameras/alexa-mini-lf), used to capture [*Deadpool & Wolverine*](https://www.wired.com/story/deadpool-and-wolverine-trailers-launched-a-bonanza-for-internet-sleuths/).) However, Danny Boyle’s forthcoming zombie flick, *28 Years Later,* was shot over the summer with a bunch of adapted iPhone 15s, WIRED has learned, making the Hollywood thriller, with its budget of $75 million, the biggest movie to date [filmed with smartphones](https://www.wired.com/story/phone-cameras-in-film/).

Starring *Killing Eve*’s Jodie Comer, next James Bond favorite Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes, *28 Years Later,* due for release in June 2025, is the [long-awaited](https://www.wired.com/2007/10/that-nearly-scared-me-to-death-lets-do-it-again/) follow-up to *28 Days Later*—the 2002 [genre-defining movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw2vz5_4kzs) that was the first to portray zombies as scary fast rather than lumbering—and 2007’s *28 Weeks Later*. Boyle is joined by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle; they won Oscars together in 2009 for their hit *Slumdog Millionaire*. Mantle was also cinematographer on the original *28 Days Later*, as well as Boyle’s films *Trance* (2013), *T2 Trainspotting* (2017), and *127 Hours* (2010).

More: [https://www.wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-zombie-flick-was-shot-on-an-iphone-15/](https://www.wired.com/story/28-years-later-danny-boyles-new-zombie-flick-was-shot-on-an-iphone-15/)