10 Unused Film Endings That Were Better Than The Real Thing
3. 28 Days Later Could've Been More Apocalyptic
Danny Boyle's zombie film is unrelenting, throwing its group of survivors out of the frying pan of the rage-stricken Capital to the fire of an army base out in the countryside. Having escape the clutches of the violent, rabid hordes in London, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and the young Megan Burns think they'll be safe in a military outpost that claims to possess a cure. Turns out they have nothing of the sort, and every intention to do harm to the women in the group. It's incredibly bleak and explored the sorts of things human beings are prepared to do to each other even when they're not infected by a virus that turns them into gibbering monsters. In the end, they escape the base and seek solace with an American air force. Alex Garland's scripted, radical alternative ending, meanwhile, doesn't even see them go to the army base. Instead, with Brendan Gleeson in tow as Burns's infected father, they discover the medical research complex the virus originated in. It did not really work out.
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