McDowell joins Doomsday!

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

The cast for the upcoming film DOOMSDAY,
the latest action film from director extraordinaire Neil Marshall, has now just
added another name to the already plump and juicy cast, that person being;
Malcolm McDowell!

According to

UK IGN McDowell has jumped on board this
cool little project with only about a month of principal photography left.
DOOMSDAY takes place in
Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague,
known as the “Reaper Virus,” has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in
its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as
it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the
remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the
victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to
send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone
to investigate the possibility of a cure.

It sounds like a real dandy, but where does
McDowell fit in you ask? Well according to

UK IGN
“In DOOMSDAY, McDowell will play Kane, the brilliant scientist who is the
only true expert on the lethal Reaper virus that an elite group of specialists
— led by Eden (Rhona Mitra) and monitored by Nelson (Bob Hoskins) — is
battling through what one character calls “hell on earth” to retrieve a cure
for.”

Marshall is really shaping up to a great
director. Both his werewolf film

DOG SOLDIERS and his phobia inducing film

THE DESCENT were amazing. And with the great cast that he has
lined up for DOOMSDAY (Rhona Mitra ,

Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Adrian
Lester, Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Emma Cleasby, Chris Robson, MyAnna Buring,
Nora-Jane Noone, Leslie Simpson, Craig Conway, and now Malcolm McDowell!) this
thing should just literally explode off screen!