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Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future. Scotland 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 medieval knights. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on the idea of futuristic soldiers facing medieval knights. In producing the film, he drew from various cinema, including Mad Max and Escape from New York.
Marshall had a budget three times the size of his previous two films, The Descent and Dog Soldiers, and the director filmed the larger-scale Doomsday in Scotland and South Africa. The film was released on 14 March 2008 in the United States and Canada and in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2008. Doomsday did not perform well at the box office, and critics gave the film mixed reviews.
In 2008, the Reaper virus infects Scotland, so the country is walled off by the British government. A Scottish woman begs retreating soldiers to take her injured little girl with them. Her daughter has an eye injury but is healthy otherwise. The mother gives her daughter an envelope just as the soldiers' helicopter lifts off.
Actors: Matthew C. Dumond (actor), Matthew C. Dumond (producer), Matthew C. Dumond (composer), Matthew C. Dumond (editor), Matthew C. Dumond (writer), Matthew C. Dumond (director), Gary L. Whelpley (miscellaneous crew), Giovanni Pantaleo (actor), Gary L. Whelpley (actor), Shawn Doherty (producer), Shawn Doherty (actor), Sean Collins (actor), Scott Neufville (actor), Richard DeAgazio (actor), Franco Trombino (actor),
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Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,