Principal photography for the film Daybreakers starts in Australia.
Daybreakers is released theatrically in Australia, where it was produced.
Daybreakers receives its wide theatrical release in the United States, reaching a broader audience.
A widespread pandemic causes the majority of the human population to become vampires, leading to a drastic transformation of society.
Due to the massive increase in vampire population, human blood supplies begin to dwindle dangerously, threatening vampire survival.
Hematologist Edward Dalton works for a vampire-run company research lab, trying to find solutions to the critical blood shortage.
Edward uncovers a secret facility where humans are kept captive to be used as blood supplies under unethical conditions.
Scientists find that prolonged vampirism causes fatal blood diseases, threatening the vampire population's future.
Edward allies with a group of surviving humans/uprising vampires aiming to end the exploitation and find a cure.
Edward starts developing an experimental serum to convert vampires back into humans or to cure vampirism.
Edward confronts the corporate leaders profiting from human exploitation, risking his life to bring down the corrupt system.
Edward administers the experimental serum to vampires, beginning a potential reversal of vampirism and saving humanity.
