It would depend on how infectious the bodies would be after death, I think. That would be a lot easier to clean up than living beings. I'd imagine it would also be far, far easier in smaller towns than London - but I can see British pride demanding London be reclaimed first.
It would be an absolute shitshow, even if the military was smarter than in 28 Weeks Later and avoided a second outbreak. Resettling the U.K. would take years. A whole generation of Brits would grow up outside of Britain.
I should have been clearer in that after those issues are sorted, there would be some kind of symbolic effort in London.
Nor does a European outbreak. I'd imagine the Chunnel was bombed and airspace was restricted over the Channel once it was clear how bad this thing was.
Well lets see, the Virus will be able to infiltrate Cambridge city during the initial hours of the outbreak and be sporadic enough to overwhelm the emergency services from all directions when the Prime Minister gets called. Some of the infected will be on trains and vehicles headed out of the city but the painful spasms and incontrollable twitches will make it dead obvious that something is wrong with them, although it will be too late for the Emergency Services of Cambridge to contain it by the time they are told of the symptoms of the Virus.
I still wouldn't call it realistic. Symptoms after minutes, with full clinical picture after 90 minutes? The quickest incubation time for any disease affecting humans is I believe Salmonella, between 8-12 hours but with 6 hours if you get a large initial dose. But that's not only the exception, it's a bacteria. The quickest viral incubation period is measured in days.
I know. Nothing about the Rage Virus, or any other 'zombie' virus for that matter, was meant to be realistic. Hence my use with the quotation marks to make it slightly more realistic compared to the original movie concept, instead of 'realistic'.
There would be more time to figure out what's going on, so the Brits would have a chance to contain the virus. If anything, the infected would probably die faster than normal people, since they're running around everywhere at full speed and beating people to death. That can't be good for their bodies.
I think my favorite in this regards is "World War Z" with the Zombies essentially walking the Ocean Floor and the characters saying that nobody understand how anything can survive that those depths.
Is the movie already that old, still waiting for the third movie they wanted to call 28 Months later, but instead if we wait 8 years more we can have a movie called 28 Years later instead.
The movie turns 20 next year along with Resident Evil, Scooby Doo, Eight Legged Freaks, and the first Spiderman.
I forgot to add that Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones will also turn 20 next year. In OTL, it was released in the UK on May 16, 2002. For TTL, it would definitely be cancelled for British cinemas because the focus would be on the Rage Virus.
Eh... I always find it weird when people are like "guys, we've GOT to think of what happens to pop culture!" in these kinds of scenarios, especially apocalyptic ones like Independence Day, Dawn of the Dead/The Walking Dead, and especially 1983: Doomsday. No one is going to be thinking about this when they're barely staying alive.
