Hannah: Post-apocalyptic films reflect our fears about Brexit future

JOHN HANNAH believes that dystopian and post-apocalyptic films appeal to audiences because our society is currently “on the edge of it”.

The Scottish actor, 56, stars in new British thriller, Genesis, in which the world is on the brink of apocalypse thanks to a deadly strain of pollution.

“I think we’re living on the edge of it,” he said. “Technology and Theresa May and Brexit, nobody knows what the future is going to be like at the moment, we really don’t.

“Personally, I feel like Brexit will be a disaster, and we’ve got these morons who are just walking us towards the cliff.”

Hannah, who rose to fame in hit 1994 rom-com Four Weddings And A Funeral, said the popularity of films and television shows set in fractured communities reflects the uncertainty of our position in the world. “These politicians are just careerists,” he said.

“It’s just about them doing what they want. God knows what we’re going to be taking for medicines or food or [what] the future of education [will be]. I think there are strong elements about the world that these film deal with.”

Hannah, pictured, stars opposite British actors Olivia Grant, Warren Brown and Ed Stoppard in the new film. Of the movie’s location, he said: “We were in a nuclear bunker that the guys had found in Essex, it was only decommissioned in the Nineties. It was horrendous. It definitely bonded us. It gives you pause for thought about of surviving a nuclear holocaust.”

⬤ Lionsgate UK will release Genesis for download on July 9 and DVD on July 16