Apple Shares Video About '28 Years Later' Being Filmed With 20 iPhones

A few months ago, we reported that select scenes in the post-apocalyptic film "28 Years Later" were shot with a rig of up to 20 iPhones. Now, the film's director Danny Boyle has discussed this feat in a YouTube video uploaded to the Apple TV channel today.

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Boyle said that using iPhones provided "the ability to work in remote places, very quickly, and very lightly, leaving a light footprint."

"We wanted our landscape to look like it hadn't been touched for 28 years by any human, so it was very advantageous for that," he added.

"Director Danny Boyle pushed the power of iPhone to new cinematic heights in select scenes of 28 Years Later," says Apple. "In fact, the portable and powerful form factor of iPhone enabled the production team to build a custom rig using a unique 20 camera setup. Discover how his crew's camerawork innovations immerse audiences into shocking scenes."


"28 Years Later" was released in June, with the film building upon the events of "28 Days Later" (2002) and "28 Weeks Later" (2007).

The film grossed an estimated $150 million worldwide.

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Top Rated Comments

ignatius345 Avatar
5 weeks ago
Saw this at the theater. The video quality really was a pretty big tell that this was shot on iPhones instead of the usual high-end cameras cinematographers use. Shooting on a phone seems like more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
BGrifter Avatar
5 weeks ago
A camera capable of producing feature films is completely wasted on me.

I just take pictures of food and cats.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MallardDuck Avatar
5 weeks ago
Next up, modifying a Ford F150 to use iPhone as headlights.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should....
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Apple Knowledge Navigator Avatar
5 weeks ago
Apple’s slant: You can shoot a movie on just an iPhone!

The real horror: $100,000 rig
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jumpthesnark Avatar
5 weeks ago

Yeah, I just don't understand what Apple has been going for these past several years. Are they a camera company now? If you had no other context, it might be easy to think so, given that has seemed to be their main focus for the past how ever many iPhone version releases now.

It feels like such a gimmick to advertise shooting a movie scene using an iPhone. Can it get the job done in the hands of true professionals? Sure. Am I going to get the same results if I attempted the same thing? Nope.

But if there wasn't some kind of cross-promotional deal going on here, would a Hollywood production choose to use an iPhone over something else? No, I find that extremely unlikely.
Danny Boyle had a budget of $60M. He didn't need a "cross-promotional deal," he was using the right tool for the job.

The iPhone rigs were used for certain scenes that had a certain look. Not for the entire movie.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
KENESS Avatar
5 weeks ago

Saw this at the theater. The video quality really was a pretty big tell that this was shot on iPhones instead of the usual high-end cameras cinematographers use. Shooting on a phone seems like more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
Only select scenes were shot on the iPhone, not the whole thing. The style was an artistic choice, harkening back to the first movie.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)