28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have lastly reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, in the event you choose, contaminated individuals) film basic. As we reporter earlier this 12 months, this sequel is about up at Sony, goes to be referred to as 28 Years Later, and it’s meant to launch a complete trilogy of 28 Days Later sequels. The theatrical launch date is June twentieth, 2025 – and with that date swiftly approaching, a batch of character posters have been unveiled. You’ll be able to test them out on the backside of this text.
The forged of 28 Years Later consists of Jodie Comer (The Bikeriders), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The Fall Man), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Alfie Williams (His Darkish Supplies), and Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). Kellyman is the one one on that record who hasn’t gotten a personality poster (but). Within the unique movie, Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) 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. He might not be within the first 28 Years Later, however he’s supposed to return again “in a surprising way” within the second film.
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.” Talking with Empire, Garland mentioned (with because of Display Rant for sharing the quote), “[28 Years Later is] not in conflict [with 28 Weeks Later, but] canon [is] not a very Danny Boyle word.” Boyle added, “It’s not mapped out like a scientific formula.” When 28 Years Later got here up throughout an interview with IndieWire, Fiennes determined to go forward and inform us all about it: “Britain is 28 years into this horrible plague of contaminated people who find themselves violent, rabid people with just a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it facilities on a younger boy who needs to search out a health care provider to assist his dying mom. He leads his mom via this lovely northern English terrain. However in fact, round them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the contaminated. However he finds a health care provider who’s a person we would suppose goes to be bizarre and odd, however truly is a drive for good.“
Now we’ve got an official synopsis to go by as effectively: Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated author Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set on the earth created by 28 Days Later. It’s been virtually three many years because the rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island related to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as effectively.
Due to their cope with 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 finances of $75 million. Boyle and Garland are producing 28 Years Later with Bernie Bellew, unique producer Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the top of Fox Searchlight Photos when that firm backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is government producing.
Garland additionally wrote the screenplays for the sequels that may come after 28 Years Later. Of the 2 28 Years Later initiatives presently within the works, Boyle directed the primary one, then handed the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta for the sequel, titled 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple. The second movie has already wrapped manufacturing. Boyle may circle again to direct 28 Years Later Half III, however that one doesn’t have a full greenlight but.
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