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Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

In November 2004, Lionsgate acquired the script to Daybreakers, written by Peter and Michael Spierig. The brothers, who directed Undead (2003), were attached to direct Daybreakers. In September 2006, the brothers received financing from Australia's Film Finance Corp., with production set to take place in Queensland. In May 2007, actor Ethan Hawke was cast into the lead role. Later in the month, Sam Neill joined the cast. Daybreakers began filming in Gold Coast, Queensland at Warner Bros. Movie World studios on July 16, 2007. Weta Workshop will create the creature effects. The production budget is $21 million, with the State Government contributing $1 million to the filmmakers. Primary filming was completed on schedule in September 2007, with reshoots following to extend key sequences.

Hawke described the film as an allegory of man's pacing with natural resources, "We're eating our own resources so people are trying to come up with blood substitutes, trying to get us off of foreign humans." The actor also said that despite the allegory, the film was "low art" and "completely unpretentious and silly".

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