BBC Unleashes The Day Of The TriffidsPosted on Wed, Dec 30, 2009
The UK does it again, taking a A 58 year old story about carniverous plants that escape and take over the world after a natural disaster. Sounds hokey right? Well, somehow the BBC finds away to take a ridiculous yet timely story that would feel stupid in most filmmakers hands and make it watchable. More than watchable.. actually enjoyable.
It’s 2011 and man has created a substitute for fossil fuel by breeding a highly dangerous crop of plants. When the human race is blinded by a meteor shower, the event also has a devastating effect on the Triffids – the creatures mutate and turn against mankind. Written by Patrick Harbinson (ER, Law & Order), The Day of the Triffids is a fast paced and highly topical take on John Wyndham’s most famous novel.
The world is struck blind by a solar storm, and millions of man-eating mobile plants are released to roam Britain.
As an expert on the Triffids, Bill Masen knows that salvation rests in the hands of the father he hates, who mutated the Triffids in the first place to produce a green source of oil that the world craves.
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