28-year-old Josh Hartnett gave an interview between shoots for 30 Days of Night, in which he plays the sheriff of a gaunt town on the brink of a massacre. "I'm working right now [in New Zealand]. I've got a week and a half off to come do press. I go back on Friday," said Josh.
"It's less of a horror movie. You saw 'Alien,' right?" Hartnett asked. "It's like that. It's kind of a supernatural, but kind of a western, you know, in that genre. It's all about being on the edge. The outskirts of society. Having to create your own society with an outside element creating massive fear and panic. Most of the film you don't even know they're vampires."
Hartnett has just completed Resurrecting the Champ, about a sports journalist who after helping a homeless man, realizes that the man is a professional boxer believed by many to be dead.