I've always been interested by the idea of the apocalypse. But what sort of post-apocalyptic film do I want to make?
Some of my favourite post apocalyptic stories are The Road, 28 Days Later and The Last of Us. In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, the book that is, we are introduced to a character carrying out their everyday life. He has a routine and we catch glimpses of who he is as a person by seeing this routine.
However, in all of these stories there is some kind of threat, whether it be other survivors or zombies. I don't want that for Radio Underground.
Literally, Tom’s world is what has been left behind after a virus has wiped out his fellow man. In a more literal film, there would be bodies littered everywhere. There would be a zombie around every corner. Or a family of cannibals with humans trapped in the basement. But this isn’t really Tom’s world. The film is a metaphor for depression. In this representation of Tom’s world, there is no good and no evil. There’s nothing. It’s not that the world has become morally ambiguous either; it’s just that there’s nothing left. There’s just nothing. No zombies. No cannibals. No animals. No people. No hope. No future. Nothing.
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