28 Years Later is ready to succeed in theatres subsequent June, and 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple might be launched six months later
28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have lastly reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, for those who favor, contaminated individuals) film traditional. This sequel is ready up at Sony, it’s known as 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch a complete trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. In truth, when producer Andrew Macdonald confirmed that filming on 28 Years Later had wrapped again in August, he adopted that up by saying that they have been about to start out engaged on the second chapter on this trilogy. Boyle solely deliberate to direct the primary one; for the second movie, he handed the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta. The sequel, 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple, wrapped manufacturing in October… and now we all know when it’s going to be launched. 28 Years Later is ready to succeed in theatres on June twentieth, 2025, and 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple will observe six months later, on January 16, 2026.
This launch date places the movie in direct competitors with Weapons, a mysterious horror challenge from New Line Cinema and Barbarian author/director Zach Cregger. Weapons might transfer into 2025, since New Line has already held constructive take a look at screenings for it, however Deadline hears that they’re content material with the January 16, 2026 launch date, which is the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. There’s additionally an unspecified Disney film scheduled to be launched that weekend.
Garland wrote the screenplays for 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple, and is predicted to write down the final entry within the trilogy as effectively. Whereas we don’t have any info on what occurs in The Bone Temple, forged member Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) revealed some particulars on 28 Years Later: “Britain is 28 years into this horrible plague of contaminated people who find themselves violent, rabid people with a couple of pockets of uninfected communities. And it facilities on a younger boy who needs to search out a physician to assist his dying mom. He leads his mom via this lovely northern English terrain. However after all, round them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the contaminated. However he finds a physician who’s a person we’d suppose goes to be bizarre and odd, however really is a drive for good.“
Along with Fiennes, the forged of 28 Years Later consists of Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Man), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). It has additionally been stated that 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy returns “in a surprising way.”
Within the unique movie, Murphy performed bicycle courier Jim, who wakes up from a coma to search out himself in an apocalyptic England that’s overrun by individuals who have been contaminated by a rage virus. Boyle and Garland went via a number of endings for 28 Days Later earlier than touchdown on the one movie-goers noticed in theatres – and that ending was the one one the place Jim survived. So he’s nonetheless on the market, able to reside via one other rage virus nightmare 28 years later. As The Hollywood Reporter beforehand famous, “The 2002 film grossed $82.7 million globally and spawned a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, though Boyle and Garland were only nominally involved as executive producers.”
Due to their take care of Sony, every of those new movies might be receiving a theatrical launch and could have budgets within the $60 million vary. 28 Years Later has a funds of $75 million. Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, unique producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the pinnacle of Fox Searchlight Photos when that firm backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is government producing.
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