If there’s a style I have, it’s to do everything in camera. We all back each other up and we are able to work very quickly too. We had to work on a small scale for Dog Soldiers and The Descent. With me, my DoP and production designer, we’ve been on the same journey together. MT: How has you style grown over the films you have done? It looks like a one hundred million dollar movie, but it’s thirty. We filmed the whole thing in South Africa and we got a lot for our money. Within the cave, it’s the perfect environment to do that. Sometimes, it’s very difficult to make the lighting work properly. I thought that would focus the claustrophobia. You know a tiny corner, with someone with a match. I wanted to have a widescreen, with very little light. I don’t want any beautiful light coming down making our caves look spectacular. NM: Well, for example, with The Descent, I told the DoP that we have no other lights besides what the (girls) take with them. MT: What’s your secret to making these big, elaborate scares on a low budget? The difference is it’s all throughout the film, lots of nasty stuff. There’s more blood and guts in this film than The Descent. NM: Somebody gets cooked alive and eaten. Do you have some more of this in Doomsday? MT: In Dog Soldiers and The Descent, you found ways for very creative bloodshed. He finished it and got back on a plane to the UK. Bob Hoskins flew all the way down to Cape Town to do one scene in which all he had to do is sit in a car and say one word. That’s exactly the way I feel, so we have a lot in common. As they both say, their favorite place in the world is to be on a film set making movies. Malcolm was an absolute joy, just a lovely, lovely guy. They’re playing very different characters to what I’ve seen them play before. Into that mix, we have Hoskins and McDowell and they are complete icons. They have such loyalty to me and vice versa. I don’t need to worry about them so much. We also got back a couple of the girls from The Descent. Everyone is playing someone completely different for roles. I was lucky enough to bring back a whole bunch of guys from Dog Soldiers. I’ve never worked with anyone like that before. MT : Was it a cool reality to get to work with Malcolm McDowell and Bob Hoskins? The knights’ quest is a bit of an Apocalypse Now journey up the river to find the cure. So in one scene, the wall behind them has a gift shop sign. So they are fake medieval not real medieval. They’ve (knights) raided all of the museums in the area. What they find there is this post apocalyptic society which is a mix of Glasgow marauders who are cannibalistic, and then a feudal society with knights in armor. They send in soldiers and scientists to try and find a cure. The government has been keeping quiet about them. The story picks up 25 years later, when the virus reoccurs, in a vastly overcrowded room and they have reason to believe that their our survivors north of the wall. Nobody can get in and nobody can get out, leaving everybody to die. To do this, they build a wall from east coast to west coast, which cuts off Scotland from the rest of the world. As a last resort they (government) quarantine the entire country. The basic story is that in the present day a virus occurs in Scotland and starts to wipe out the whole population. Escape from New York, The Road Warriors, Metal Storm, you name it. Neil Marshall: Doomsday is my homage to post apocalyptic films of the early 80’s. The Massie Twins: Tell us about Doomsday. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education.The Massie Twins sat down with writer/director Neil Marshall to discuss his new action/sci-fi/thriller “Doomsday,” starring Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm McDowell, during the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. UK Notes The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. JW - channel sales manager) Email Web External site opens in new window Phone +44 (0) 20 8433 1009 Address BBC Studios Limited Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries Subjects Environmental science Keywords environment population dynamics Production Company Name BBC Television Distributor Name BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning Contact Carolina Fernandez Year of production 1992 Availability Sale 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) Notes Broadcast on BBC1 on 1 June 1992. Series Horizon, Series Language English Country Great Britain Medium Video Videocassette. The programme asks when the human population will reach its carrying capacity and examines the consequences thereof. Any other animal community which grows at an unprecedented rate will crash spectacularly when it exceeds the ‘carrying capacity’ of its environment - it will run out of food and destroy its life support systems. Synopsis The population of the world is growing faster now than at any other time in history: the UN projects that it will double in 60 years.
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