PREMISE:
In 2017, a plague transforms the world's population into vampires. With fewer humans to provide blood, the vampires seek to farm the remaining humans and to find a way to continue their existence. A secret team of vampires uncover a way that would rescue the human race

Production:
In November 2004, Lionsgate acquired the script to Daybreakers, written by Peter and Michael Spierig. The brothers, who directed Undead (2003), were attached to direct Daybreakers. In September 2006, the brothers received financing from Australia's Film Finance Corp., with production set to take place in Queensland. In May 2007, actor Ethan Hawke was cast into the lead role. Later in the month, Sam Neill joined the cast. Daybreakers began filming in Gold Coast, Queensland at Warner Bros. Movie World studios on July 16, 2007. Weta Workshop will create the creature effects. The production budget is $21 million, with the State Government contributing $1 million to the filmmakers. Filming was completed on time in September 2007.

Hawke described the film as an allegory of man's pacing with natural resources, "We're eating our own resources so people are trying to come up with blood substitutes, trying to get us off of foreign humans." The actor also said that despite the allegory, the film was "low art" and "completely unpretentious and silly".

Role: Alison Bromley
Lionsgate & Paradise P/L, Dir: Spierig Brothers

The film is set 10 to 15 years in the future, where the world has been taken over by vampires whom have all accepted their lives and have returned to their everyday jobs and suburban homes. The story focuses on two vampire brothers -- one embracing the vampire life and is part of some military organization to trap and capture the last remaining humans for food, while the other is seeking to become human again.

Other Cast:

Ethan Hawke
Sam Neill
William Dafoe
Claudia Karvan
Michael Dorman
Vince Colosimo

Director:
Michael Spierig
Peter Spierig

Category:
Vampires
Horror