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

Next summer’s horror blockbuster is the biggest release yet to be shot with iPhones—and not even Apple’s latest model.

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. 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 follow-up to 28 Days Later —the 2002 genre-defining movie that was the first to portray zombies as scary fast rather than lumbering—and 2007's 28 Weeks Later. But a clue has been online for some months: A single paparazzi photograph out of a portfolio of 150, shot in July, shows Comer standing close to a movie camera that, at first glance, appears to be a high-end model such as those made by German manufacturer Arri, a standard choice for professional cinematographers new and old.

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