![]() America, as it so often has, is leading the reconstruction and repatriation of those lucky few who’d escaped abroad, that project centred around a secure Green Zone (and those alert to political resonances might intuit how that hubris will play itself out).īut prior to that exposition, the spectacular set piece that opens the movie makes clear where its real energies are concentrated: we start with husband and wife Don and Alice, hunkered down with others in a barricaded farmhouse while the virus is still raging. The story picks up in 28 Weeks Later with the virus having burned itself out in a locked-down Britain after having taken most of the population with it. At that movie’s release, it felt terrifyingly as though someone had changed the rules and not informed the audience. The shufflingly slow reanimated corpses that could be avoided by a brisk walk in Night of the Living Dead had, in 28 Days Later, become rabid dervishes animated by a rage virus. First, horror as a genre still seems a little grindhouse to some, and second, it’s a sequel, to a movie that would seem to outshine it: Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, the critical and financial success that transformed (if not created) the modern zombie sub-genre, mostly through the innovation of sprinting zombies. ![]() ![]() There are probably a couple of good reasons for that. I’m pretty sure that following the Covid-19 pandemic, Alex Garland has come up with some brilliant and terrifying ideas about what could happen in the third film in what could be a pretty incredible zombie trilogy.It’s a measure of how underrated Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later is that when I recommend it to people, they’re often startled. In 28 Days Later we saw that the zombie virus has spread into Paris and was heading across the continent of Europe. But a third part would get people in, if it was half-decent. It’s hard for companies distributing films and for cinema chains to show films, they’re struggling to get people into the cinema unless it’s something like Top Gun: Maverick or a Marvel. Garland then added: might come back into focus because one of the things that’s happening in the business at the moment is it has to be a big reason for you to go to the cinema, because there are less and less reasons. So yeah, I love the idea and it’s very appealing to me. It really stands up, which is amazing for a film that’s 20 years old. Because I showed it to my kids recently, some Halloween about four or five years ago, and they loved it. Well, here’s what Murphy had to say about possibly returning for 28 Months Later:Įvery time I do bump into Danny or Alex I always mention it. ![]() However, it’s still not certain whether her character survived 28 Weeks Later. Could Danny Boyle direct the movie?Ĭould we end up seeing the likes of Cillian Murphy – whose character was last seen heading for the Lake District – or maybe even Imogen Posts. However, there’s no word yet on whether any characters from the previous two films will return. There aren’t many details on the movie’s script, however, we can confirm that the film will be set in the United Kingdom. So, Garland has finalised a script and Boyle is very much “tempted” to direct it. It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it until you just said it, and I remembered ‘Bang, this script!’ which is again set in England, very much about England. Boyle was also waiting for the right story, and it seems as though Alex Garland, the writer of the first film, has finished a script for what’s being referred to as 28 Months Later.Īccording to Variety, Garland’s script for 28 Months Later was written years ago and Boyle called it “a lovely idea,” adding, “I’d be very tempted. Director of the first movie, Danny Boyle, has often talked about wanting to return to the franchise, however, other projects have got in the way of him making another film in this particular universe. ![]()
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