First Look at Martin Freeman in Zombie Survival Drama CARGO
Back in 2013, we shared a heartbreaking zombie short film called Cargo. It follows the story of a father who is bitten by a zombie and he sets out on a journey to save his infant daughter from himself before he turns into a zombie and the zombie apocalypse in which they live.
Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling are the brains being the story and they have adapted their short film into a feature film that stars Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock). You can see the first photo of him in the film above. It follows the same story as the short, but the story will be padded with more adventure and drama.
Freeman stars as Andy, a father infected with a killer virus in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic. Stranded in rural Australia he has a desperate 48 hours to find a new guardian for his infant daughter and a means to protect her from his own changing nature. Salvation may lie with an isolated Aboriginal tribe, but to gain access he must first earn the allegiance of a young Indigenous girl on a tragic quest of her own.
According to THR, Freeman’s agent said that “genre’s not really his thing,” but after reading Ramke’s script, the actor was impacted by the story, and he found it “unexpectedly powerful.” That says a lot about the film.