I’ve written about Neil Marshall’s new film, “Doomsday”, a few times before. Marshall brings with him a good resume of genre films: “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent”, which leaves many people anticipating his new bigger budget, bigger concept film “Doomsday”.

In the world of “Doomsday”, Scotland is walled off to protect the rest of the world from a deadly virus called “Reaper”. 30 years pass and there’s a Reaper outbreak in another country, leading our heroes to enter the ruins of Scotland in order to try to find a cure. Malcolm McDowell stars as “Kane”, patterned after Kurtz from “Heart of Darkness” (or “Apocalypse Now” in the event that you’ve never read the book).

Someday we’ll progress to a point where scary, over the edge guys in media won’t be named variations of Cain or Kurtz.

Other than McDowell, what do they find in Scotland? A bunch of dirty, angry Scots with mohawks is the first impression that the official web site gives… cause after all, mohawks are apparently still scary.

At any rate, “Doomsday” will happen on March 14th, at least in the US.

There doesn’t seem to be a trailer online for “Doomsday” yet… I’ll post when I find one.

Via: Universal Snags a Release Date for Neil Marshall’s ‘Doomsday’ - Cinematical
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