Sony has prevailed in a bidding battle for rights to 28 Years Later, a brand new horror thriller based mostly on the 2002 zombie traditional 28 Days Later, which can reunite the unique’s director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland.
Boyle is hooked up to direct the pic, which is being checked out is the primary in a brand new trilogy, with Garland set to script every installment. Budget for the movies might be within the vary of $75 million. In addition to Boyle and Garland, producers on 28 Years will embrace Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the previous head of Fox Searchlight Pictures. The latter was a division of former studio Twentieth Century Fox, which backed the unique movies. On the awards circuit this yr because the star of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the unique movie’s star Cillian Murphy is on board as an government producer and may reprise his position as zombie apocalypse survivor Jim, although it’s very early days on the casting entrance.
Credited with respiration new life into zombie flicks, 28 Days Later watched as Murphy’s bicycle courier wakened from a coma to find that the world had been overrun with zombies, following the outbreak of a virus. Pic grossed over $82M worldwide and led to manufacturing of 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, on which Boyle and Garland served solely as EPs.
Boyle is coming off of Pistol, the Sex Pistols miniseries that he exec produced and directed for FX. Last seeing the discharge of his Jessie Buckley-led horror pic Men, Garland is poised for a return to theaters this yr with actioner Civil War, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and extra, which hits theaters by way of A24 on April 12.
News of the Sony deal for 28 Years Later was damaged this afternoon by The Hollywood Reporter.
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