 The boy who arrives at the cottage at the beginning of the film claims to be from Sandford. Sandford is the name of the `fake` village that was used by British police to practice emergency preparedness drills. It`s also the fictitious locale for the action comedy Hot Fuzz (2007).
The farm that Don and Alice hide out in the start of the film is the same farm that appears in Children of Men (2006).
The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff doubled for the interior of Wembley Stadium because, at the time of filming, the interior of the newly built Wembley was still under construction. Visual effects were used to turn the seats red and make the grass appear untended.
When Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald first began to consider a sequel to 28 Days Later... (2002), their initial idea was to do 29 Days Later, possibly using the characters of Jim (Cillian Murphy), Selena (Naomi Harris) and Hannah (Megan Burns) from the first film. This idea was dropped in favor of doing a film set within the time-frame of 28 Days Later..., focusing on an SAS team sent into London to retrieve either the Prime Minister or the Queen. Finally, it was suggested to set the film some time after the events of the initial film, and to deal with the impact Rage has had on society in general.
According to director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, composer John Murphy had only two weeks to compose the entire score for the movie.
All of the night scenes involving Andy, Tammy, Scarlet, Doyle and Sam`s journey across London to escape the bombs were shot day-for-night using a new technique created specifically for the film by director of photography Enrique Chediak. The scenes were shot day-for-night for three reasons. Firstly, because the filmmakers weren`t allowed to use Mackintosh Muggleton (Andy) at night time. Secondly, because there is supposed to be a total shut down of all power in London, hence every building must appear light-less. However, if one were to actually shoot at night time in London, this would be impossible to capture photo-realistically and would hence involve complex post-production work removing all of the lights. By shooting during the day time however, there are few lights on in most buildings anyway, and as such, when the day-for-night treatment is applied to the film stock, everything in the image darkens equally, thus giving the impression that all of the buildings are in total darkness. Thirdly, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has always been a big fan of the `ghostly` quality day-for-night shooting has, and he felt it would create the perfect sense of unease for the film.
Robert Carlyle had turned down a part in 28 Days Later... (2002).
Extensive filming of a "US Army Camp / Base" took place during the weekend of 21st/22nd October 2006 in the courtyard outside the Citypoint Building, Ropemaker Street, London EC2. A large number of tents with US flags, cast in military dress and vehicles were in place. Additionally access to the sub-floor car park area appears to have been given to shoot an underground scene
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