![]() So as not to draw any attention, the mission is top-secret, and Eden and her team are given 46 hours to get in, find the cure, and get out. #DOOMSDAY 2008 DRIVERS#Joining her is military man Norton (ADRIAN LESTER) armored transport drivers Chandler (RICK WARDEN) and Read (NORA-JANE NOONE) gunners Carpenter (LESLIE SIMPSON) and Miller (CHRIS ROBSON), and researchers Dr. Nevertheless, he or someone following in his footsteps is their only viable hope, so Nelson opts to send Eden on a recon mission to find out what's going on and bring back a cure. Their hopes are buoyed by the earlier work of a scientist by the name of Kane (MALCOLM McDOWELL) who was working on a cure, but he hasn't been heard from in a very long time. They hope they've found it in surveillance footage of Glasgow that's recently shown activity in the streets where everyone presumably would have been long dead. Now, however, there's been an outbreak in London, and the government is desperate for a solution. As a last resort, the Brits literally walled in the population with a thirty-foot-high barrier, ordered that no one be let in or out, and hoped that would prevent the problem from spreading. It seems that nearly 30 years ago, an outbreak of the deadly and contagious Reaper virus spread like wildfire throughout Scotland. He reports directly to Prime Minister John Hatcher (ALEXANDER SIDDIG) and his right-hand man, Michael Canaris (DAVID O'HARA), both of whom are worried about a recent development. PLOT: It's the year 2035 and Eden Sinclair (RHONA MITRA) is a major in the British military, an efficient soldier who carries out various jobs for Bill Nelson (BOB HOSKINS), the chief of the Department of Domestic Security. "More than any other film." He remains fond of his bloody, often crazy, and surprisingly funny action movie, which features an exceptionally cool hero who gets some standout scenes with the late Bob Hoskins.QUICK TAKE: Action/Thriller: Three decades after Scotland was walled off to quarantine a deadly and contagious virus, a group of specialists head back inside the country to try to find a cure when the virus resurfaces. "I learned a s*** load from the failure of this film," the writer-director said. He definitely hasn't forgotten the importance of Doomsday, though. Marshall joked maybe he could scrap together bread crumbs from Europe to make the sequel, but he's long since moved on. Beyond that, I haven't really thought about it. There's a border town, and she discovers her mom is still alive and running her own kind of gang there. The story was going to involve our hero character, Sinclair, ending up in Newcastle upon Tyne, my hometown. I thought, Oh, I'll save that for the next one. There was a sequence involving helicopter gunships attacking the castle, which I knew I couldn't properly do for this one. According to Marshall, Doomsday 2 would've revealed Sinclair's mother survived the virus: I had an idea for a part two. ![]()
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