28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have lastly reunited to make a sequel to their zombie (or, should you want, contaminated individuals) film basic. As we reporter earlier this 12 months, 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. The theatrical launch date is June twentieth, 2025 – and with that date swiftly approaching, a brand new poster has been unveiled. You’ll be able to test it out on the backside of this text.
The solid of 28 Years Later contains 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). Within the authentic 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 by means 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 means of one other rage virus nightmare 28 years later. He will not be within the first 28 Years Later, however he’s supposed to come back again “in a surprising way” sooner or 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.” 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 by means of 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’d assume goes to be bizarre and odd, however really is a pressure for good.“
Now we have now an official synopsis to go by as properly: 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 nearly three many years for the reason that 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 properly.
Due to their take care of Sony, every of those new movies might be receiving a theatrical launch and can 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, authentic producer Macdonald, and Peter Rice, who was the pinnacle of Fox Searchlight Photos when that firm backed 28 Days Later. Murphy is govt 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.
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