These fast-moving zombies positive took their candy time coming again. However now they’re right here.
Confirming latest rumors that sequels to the fashionable zombie basic 28 Days Later have been being shopped round Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter says the tasks have landed at Sony, the place two new sequels are being developed by authentic 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland. The movies will probably be generally known as 28 Years Later. (There was one earlier sequel within the franchise, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which had solely minimal involvement from Boyle and Garland.)
Per THR, Boyle and Garland “have reunited to jot down and direct the sequel, which additionally comes with a Half 2, to be written by Garland. Boyle would solely direct the primary undertaking, with the sequel’s director to be decided at a later stage.” Additionally they notice that Cillian Murphy who starred within the authentic movie is concerned as an govt producer who “might additionally presumably act within the undertaking.”
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Within the authentic 28 Days Later from 2002, Murphy performs Jim, a person who awakens a month right into a zombie outbreak in London and finds the town all however deserted to flesh eaters. Along with a couple of different survivors, he struggles to discover a protected haven from the contaminated, who’ve been reworked by a “rage virus” into senseless monsters. The unique film ended on an upbeat notice, with Jim and a number of other others escaping the town and awaiting rescue by the army — though the movie had a number of alternate endings, all of which ended with Jim dying as a substitute.
28 Days Later’s authentic innovation, along with its grungy digital pictures and eerie scenes of an deserted London — a component of the film that appeared disturbingly prescient amidst the lockdowns of 2020 — was its introduction of fast-moving zombies as a substitute of the plodding, brainless hordes who’d typified the style to that time. Which raises the query: What horrifying nightmare will Boyle and Garland introduce this time?
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