The Isle of Dogs is a peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England. It includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was hi
Aerial view of the Isle of Dogs in 2015. The O2 Arena can be seen on the Greenwich Peninsula to the right (east) of the Isle of Dogs.
The Isle of Dogs at night
East Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs
1899 The Isle of Dogs, at the height of its Victorian commercial success
28 Weeks Later is a 2007 action horror film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who co-wrote it with Rowan Joffé, Enrique López Lavigne, and Jesús Olmo. It is a standalone sequel to 28 Days Later and
Isle of Dogs
…The Isle of Dogs featured heavily in the 1980 British film The Long Good Friday, and the Isle of Dogs is the primary location of the 2007 horror film 28 Weeks Later, where it is the only secure and quarantined area in all of Britain suitable for recivilisation after a virus epidemic kills the population of Britain…
Theatrical release poster
The film's District One setting was filmed in Canary Wharf, pictured here on 16 September 2020.
28 Days Later composer John Murphy (pictured at the 2022 WonderCon) returned to score the sequel.
Critics note that 28 Weeks Later draws on "Mission Accomplished" symbolism and satirises militarised crisis management of the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq. Pictured here is US President George W. Bush announcing Operation Iraqi Freedom at the Oval Office in 2003.