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Daybreakers
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
2010 · Directed by Michael Spierig · 98 min · Action · Fantasy · Science Fiction · 10 frames
Tagline
In 2019, the most precious natural resource... is us.
Crew
- Screenplay: Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig
- Cinematography: Ben Nott
- Edited by: Matt Villa
- Music: Christopher Gordon
- Production design: George Liddle
- Produced by: Todd Fellman, Bryan Furst, Sean Furst, Chris Brown
Cast
- Ethan Hawke as Edward Dalton
- Sam Neill as Charles Bromley
- Willem Dafoe as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
- Claudia Karvan as Audrey Bennett
- Isabel Lucas as Alison Bromley
- Vince Colosimo as Christopher Caruso
- Jay Laga'aia as Senator Turner
- Michael Dorman as Frankie Dalton
- Harriet Minto-Day as Lisa Barrett
- Tiffany Lamb as News Reader
Production
- Country: United States of America, Australia
- Language: English
- Studios: Lionsgate, Pictures in Paradise, Pacific Film and Television Commission, Furst Films
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $51,417,188
- Themes: experiment, sunrise, waitress, vampire, dystopia, rain, sunlight, undead, scientist, epidemic
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