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Doomsday is a 2008 action science fiction film directed and written by Neil Marshall. Produced by Steven Paul and Rogue Pictures, the movie features Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, and Alexander Siddig in the cast. Tyler Bates composed the score for the production, which originated in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. The narrative is set in London and Glasgow and centers on an epidemic.
The film has a runtime of 108 minutes and was released in various formats, including video on demand. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix. The production budget was $30,000,000, with a revenue of $22,472,631. Critical assessments include a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 50% and a Metacritic score of 51 out of 100. The film received one award nomination and is rated R.
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5.9The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Cast
- Rhona Mitra as Eden Sinclair
- Bob Hoskins as Bill Nelson
- Adrian Lester as Sergeant Norton
- Alexander Siddig as Prime Minister John Hatcher
- David O'Hara as Michael Canaris
- Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Marcus Kane
Themes
- quarantine
- dystopia
- post-apocalyptic future
- sword fight
- futuristic
- lethal virus
- action hero
- 2030s
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
81,565 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
Metacritic
51/100
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Neil Marshall
- Written by
- Neil Marshall
- Produced by
- Benedict Carver, Steven Paul
- Starring
- Rhona Mitra Bob Hoskins Adrian Lester David O'Hara Malcolm McDowell
- Cinematography
- Sam McCurdy
- Edited by
- Andrew MacRitchie
- Music by
- Tyler Bates
- Production companies
- Rogue Pictures , Crystal Sky Pictures , Intrepid Pictures , Scion Films
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Latin America) , Concorde Filmverleih (Germany) , Ster-Kinekor (South Africa)
- Release dates
- 14 March 2008 ( 2008-03-14 ) (United States) 9 May 2008 ( 2008-05-09 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 105 minutes, (United States) , 113 minutes, (United Kingdom)
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States Germany South Africa
- Language
- English
- Budget
- £17 million
- Box office
- $22.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- horror film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- epidemic
- Director
- Neil Marshall
- Screenwriter
- Neil Marshall
- Cast member
- Cal MacAninch
- Composer
- Tyler Bates
- Producer
- Steven Paul
- Narrative location
- Glasgow
- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 560720
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.doomsdayiscoming.com
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- publication date
- 2008-06-12
- title
- Doomsday
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 51/100
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v1022408.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
Doomsday is a 2008 science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future in Scotland, which has been quarantined because of a deadly virus. When the virus is found in London, political leaders send a team led by Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) to Scotland to find a possible cure. Sinclair's team runs into two types of survivors: marauders and survivors styling themselves after medieval knights. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on the idea of futuristic soldiers facing medieval knights. In producing the film, he drew inspiration from various movies, including Mad Max, Escape from New York (1981) and 28 Days Later (2002).
Marshall had a budget three times the size of his previous two films, Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), and the director filmed the larger-scale Doomsday in Scotland and South Africa. The film was released in the United States and Canada on 14 March 2008 and in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2008. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the casting, pacing, narrative, and homage to previous films, but criticized the plot holes, character development, confusing editing, and excessive gore. The film grossed $22 million worldwide, making it a box office bomb.
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