The highly anticipated film is expected to be released in June 2025 (Picture: Rex)
Apple has just released the iPhone 16, but while its ultra-wide camera and auto-focus are great selling points, the tech giant’s iPhone 15 camera appears to be so good that an entire movie was filmed using it.
Despite filmmakers having access to the best cinema-quality cameras in the business, director Danny Boyle, 67, has reportedly challenged himself and his team by ambitiously deciding to film his upcoming zombie movie on adapted models of the iPhone 15.
Titled 28 Years Later, the feature is the highly anticipated sequel to his 2002 film, 28 Days Later and stars some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Jodie Comer, 31, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 34.
Shooting for the film concluded in August, with Wired reporting that cast and crew were requested to sign an NDA to prevent news of the filming methods from spreading.
But despite the team’s best efforts, a photo taken by a paparazzi in July shows Jodie talking to a crew member over a camera in between scenes.
While the image appears completely normal for a movie set at first, a professional camera operator who does not work on the film told the news outlet that a closer look shows a lens attached to a protective cage that may potentially be holding an iPhone.
A picture of Jodie on set earlier this year may have given away a key detail (Picture: Click News and Media)
The actress is just one of the pic Hollywood names attached to the film (Picture: Click News and Media)
Danny and his crew may have used a Beast adapter for a clearer shot (Picture: Beastgrip)
Following the speculation, multiple sources connected to the film have confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro Max was used as the primary camera on set.
Danny and his team likely filmed using high-tech accessories with the iPhone to ensure the picture was as clear as possible.
A potential accessory used is the Beast depth of field adapter, which was released in March and helps project the image from the DSLR lens onto the surface of the iPhone’s screen, which the iPhone then records.
If the movie was filmed entirely on adapted iPhones, its $75million (£56.4million) budget would make it one of the biggest films to date filmed with smartphones.
Other productions shot with an iPhone include Sean Baker’s 2015 movie, Tangerine, starring Mya Taylor and Steven Soderbergh’s 2018 drama Unsane, starting with Claire Foy.
It may not come as a surprise to fans of the director as the early 00s film, which starred Cillian Murphy, 48, and was the first post-apocalyptic film to portray zombies as things to be scared of, was also a pioneer in terms of how it was filmed.
Danny’s 2002 film was also made with an unusual filming method for its time (Picture: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Cillian will reprise his role for the sequel (Picture: Peter Mountain/Dna/20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
At the time, Hollywood was using a variety of cameras, including the Canon EOS D60, which won the European professional digital camera of the year award, but Danny and his team decided to use a Canon XL-1, becoming one of the first Hollywood feature films to do so.
Details of the upcoming film’s plot have not yet been released, but it has been confirmed that Cillian will reprise his role in front of the camera and serve as an executive producer.
The first film follows the story of the Oscar winner’s character, Jim, who awakes from a coma in a London hospital only to find a mysterious virus has spread through the city, causing people to eat human flesh.
It’s understood two more movies will follow the upcoming sequel.
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