Vampire civilization operates just like ours—they go to work, drink coffee (blood-infused), and fear the rising cost of blood.
The protagonist is , a brilliant hematologist and a vampire who refuses to feed on human blood. He works for a large pharmaceutical corporation, desperately trying to create a viable synthetic blood substitute to sustain the vampire population.
| Character | Actor | Role in the Story | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Ethan Hawke | A conflicted vampire hematologist searching for a cure. | | Elvis | Willem Dafoe | A scrappy human survivor who was once a vampire. | | Charles Bromley | Sam Neill | The ruthless head of the corporation and the main antagonist. | | Audrey Bennett | Claudia Karvan | A human rebel who helps Edward find the truth. | | Frankie Dalton | Michael Dorman | Edward's human-feeding, loyal brother. |
Set in the year 2019 (back when 2019 was the future), Daybreakers imagines a world where a plague has turned 95% of the population into vampires. Humans have been hunted to near extinction. The remaining 5% of humans are farmed for their blood, leading to a global shortage.
