Marshall's Follow-Up to 'The Descent' is Cast

Hoskins leads a large list...

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Monday, January 29th 2007 at 12:59 AM

We already knew that the sexy Rhona Mitra was set to star in director Neil Marshall's follow-up to his hit horror-thriller The Descent, and today Rogue Pictures revealed the rest of the cast for Doomsday.

Starring alongside Mitra will be just announced Golden Globe-winning actor Bob Hoskins who is joined by Alexander Siddig (Kingdom of Heaven), Adrian Lester, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Emma Cleasby, Chris Robson, Leslie Simpson and Craig Conway. Several of the cast members (Noone, Buring, Simpson and Conway) all starred in The Descent for Marshall.

In Doomsday, a lethal virus spreads throughout a major country and kills hundreds of thousands. To contain the newly identified Reaper, the authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The literal walling-off works for three decades – until Reaper violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, including Eden Sinclair (Ms. Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Hoskins will play Bill Nelson, a career policeman who nominates Eden for the mission and monitors its progress.

In addition to Doomsday, the release mentions that Rogue and Crystal Sky Pictures are partnering on writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Castlevania, adapted from the top-selling video game and detailing Dracula’s origins. Intrepid has an ongoing multi-year production and co-financing deal with Universal Pictures and Rogue Pictures.