Manufacturing has wrapped on director Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, and work on the Nia DaCosta-directed sequel has now begun
28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have lastly reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, for those who want, contaminated folks) film basic. As we reporter earlier this yr, this sequel is ready up at Sony, goes to be known as 28 Years Later – and it’s meant to launch an entire trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. No less than two of these three potential motion pictures are occurring for certain, as producer Andrew Macdonald revealed throughout an look at an Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Pageant occasion this previous Sunday that filming has wrapped on 28 Years Later and that, as of yesterday, work has formally begun on the second film!
The solid of 28 Years Later contains Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Man), Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave). It has additionally been stated that 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy returns “in a surprising way.”
Within the authentic 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 by way of 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 dwell by way of 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.”
Garland is already writing the screenplay for the sequel that can come after 28 Years Later. Of the 2 28 Years Later initiatives presently within the works, Boyle is just planning to direct the primary one. For the second movie, he’s passing the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta. Due to their cope with Sony, every of those new movies will probably be receiving a theatrical launch and may have budgets within the $60 million vary. Apparently 28 Years Later has a finances of $75 million.
Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, authentic producer Andrew Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the top of Fox Searchlight Footage when that firm backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is government producing. The movie is scheduled to succeed in theatres on June twentieth, 2025.
On the Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sunday, Macdonald stated (with because of The Hollywood Reporter for the transcription), “We’re making, hopefully, three more 28 films with the first one called 28 Years Later that Alex has written, and Danny has directed, and has finished shooting. Then we’re just about to start, tomorrow morning, actually, part two. And then we hope there’s going to be a third part and it’s a trilogy.”
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