>Back in February on Slice of SciFi Show #95, in our Future Talk segment, we talked about a new film starring “Boston Legal” alum Rhona Mitra being moved up into the A-List after it signed-on two biggies in the biz in the persons of Bob Hoskins and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Syrianna” star Alexander Siddig.

(or is he really dead on Heroes? – Chapter Two will tell). Malcom is well known to Star Trek fans as the one who killed off everybody’s favorite Starfleet Captain, James T. Kirk in the seventh film of the historic franchise, “Star Trek VII: Generations.”

McDowell got to work alongside Siddig (his real-life nephew) in this tale that begins in England, year 2007. The deadliest plague in human history has broken out – dubbed the “Reaper Virus,” and it wipes out hundreds of thousands in the British Isles. The government constructs a wall around the country after evacuting all people not infected and leaving behind those with the virus, or unlucky enough to have been stuck behind the finished wall.

The film then jumps ahead thirty years into the future. The world thinks they have put the virus behind them when suddenly a new outbreak of it shows up outside the wall, in what was thought to be the safe-zone. A task force is put together headed up by Major Sinclair (Mitra) to infiltrate the extremely dangerous hot-zone behind the wall in search of a rumored cure.

A release date for “Doomsday,” which has just begun post-production, is expected to be announced for sometime in late 2007 or early 2008.