‘28 Days Later’ Sequels Finally Happening

Those fast-moving zombies certain took their candy time coming again. But now they’re right here.

Confirming current rumors that sequels to the fashionable zombie basic 28 Days Later had been being shopped round Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter says the tasks have landed at Sony, the place two new sequels are being developed by unique 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland. The movies will probably be often known as 28 Years Later. (There was one earlier sequel within the franchise, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which had solely minimal involvement from Boyle and Garland.)

Per THR, Boyle and Garland “have reunited to write and direct the sequel, which also comes with a Part 2, to be written by Garland. Boyle would only direct the first project, with the sequel’s director to be determined at a later stage.” They additionally notice that Cillian Murphy who starred within the unique movie is concerned as an government producer who “could also possibly act in the project.”

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In the unique 28 Days Later from 2002, Murphy performs Jim, a person who awakens a month right into a zombie outbreak in London and finds town all however deserted to flesh eaters. Together with a number of different survivors, he struggles to discover a secure haven from the contaminated, who’ve been reworked by a “rage virus” into senseless monsters. The unique film ended on an upbeat notice, with Jim and several other others escaping town and awaiting rescue by the army — though the movie had a number of alternate endings, all of which ended with Jim dying as a substitute.

28 Days Later’s unique innovation, along with its grungy digital pictures and eerie scenes of an deserted London — a component of the film that appeared disturbingly prescient amidst the lockdowns of 2020 — was its introduction of fast-moving zombies as a substitute of the plodding, brainless hordes who’d typified the style to that time. Which raises the query: What horrifying nightmare will Boyle and Garland introduce this time?