28 DAYS LATER Team Danny Boyle & Alex Garland To Reunite For New 28 YEARS LATER Trilogy

28 DAYS LATER Team Danny Boyle & Alex Garland To Reunite For New 28 YEARS LATER Trilogy

They're skipping 28 Months, but director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have joined forces yet again for a long-awaited sequel to 2002's horror classic, 28 Days Later...

By MarkCassidy - Jan 11, 2024 10:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Via FearHQ

It's been a long time coming, but we have some news that's sure to make zombie fans very happy.

The director and writer behind 2002’s horror hit 28 Days Later are joining forces yet again for at least one sequel, and possibly a trilogy.

Though we're not sure why they decided to skip 28 Months, THR reports that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland will reunite for 28 Years Later, which "is expected to hit studios, streamers and other potential buyers later this week."

The original movie was a massive success, and already spawned one less well-regarded (but still well worth watching) follow-up in 2007's 28 Weeks Later. Boyle and Garland were only involved as executive producers on that project, so a lot of fans are sure to view this new movie as the first true sequel.

Boyle is attached to direct the first instalment, while Garland would write all three. The budget for each movie is said to be in the $75 million range.

The first film starred Cillian Murphy as a nameless man who wakes from a coma after a bicycle accident to find that England has been overrun by "The Infected." The virus turns its victims into raging killers, but unlike the usual "zombies," these creatures can move with frightening speed. The man then sets out to learn what's been going on, meeting fellow survivors played by Naomie Harris and Brendan Gleeson along the way, as well as a deranged army major played by Christopher Eccleston.

Plot details for 28 Years Later are still under wraps, but the timeframe would suggest that it will take place in a near-future setting, which means the movie might lean more towards sci-fi than straight-up horror.

There's no mention of the surviving characters (played by Murphy and Harris) returning, but we'd assume Boyle and Garland enlisting an entirely new cast would be more likely.

What do you make of this news? Are you excited for more 28 Days movies, or do you think too much time has passed? Check out the trailer for the original below, and be sure to share your thoughts in the usual place.

"A group of misguided animal rights activists free a caged chimp infected with the "Rage" virus from a medical research lab. When London bike courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma a month after, he finds his city all but deserted. On the run from the zombie-like victims of the Rage, Jim stumbles upon a group of survivors, including Selena (Naomie Harris) and cab driver Frank (Brendan Gleeson), and joins them on a perilous journey to what he hopes will be safety."

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thereeljoefish
thereeljoefish - 1/11/2024, 10:01 AM
LETS GOOOOO
grif
grif - 1/11/2024, 10:01 AM
trilogy? wut?


lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/11/2024, 10:12 AM
@grif - that has me excited and confused all at the same time. I'll take all the '28' sequels we can get, but a trilogy set 28 Years later? To me a trilogy would have been easier if you started with months, second film years, and no idea what to do with the 3rd film.
Vigor
Vigor - 1/11/2024, 10:12 AM
@grif - yes. 3 movies
HumanRubiksCube
HumanRubiksCube - 1/11/2024, 10:34 AM
@lazlodaytona - 28 centuries later - ZOMBIES IN SPACEEEEEEEE!
The1st
The1st - 1/11/2024, 11:05 AM
@grif - standard Hollywood procedure for big ips
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 1/11/2024, 10:02 AM
what happened to months?
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 1/11/2024, 10:05 AM
@harryba11zack - It seems like 28 Days and 28 Weeks are within their own direct continuity where 28 Weeks had an introduction set during the same time and place of 28 Days later. 28 Years Later is set to be another direct continuity of one another.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/11/2024, 10:13 AM
@harryba11zack - Time flies when you're being chased by the infected.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 1/11/2024, 11:36 AM
@harryba11zack - It probably has to do with the plot...

At any rate, considering they filmed the original movie in 2001, released in 2002, all things considered we're getting close to 28 actual years later, especilly if they get to the second or third movie it could be right on 2029/2030. If Cillian Murphy is in it, the age matches up naturally.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 1/11/2024, 11:45 AM
@SonOfAGif - So, to me it sounds like it will focus on different characters, but the setting may follow the previous movies?

Meaning, the 2nd movie ended showing the zombies crossing the border into Paris, if I'm not mistaken. Basically it was showing the infection spreading beyond just that one country.

So, rather than showing Paris get infected, which would really just be re-treading what we've already seen, they are skipping ahead 28 years to show the world infected? Or maybe all of Europe and Asia? Something like that.

I would imagine it will be all different characters, even though the kids with the potential cure in their blood escaped. But it really just sounds like a time jump forward to show how more of the world has been infected.

And I wouldn't expect this to be more sci-fi like the article is speculating. 28 years isn't a long enough time for people to suddenly have laser guns or much crazier technology than they had in 28 Weeks Later.

Or......they could just be rebooting the entire franchise, but I think that would be silly and a mistake.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 1/11/2024, 3:23 PM
I imagine they wanted to leech off the IRL time passage between the original film and the new film - whether or not they are connected in a linear sense.

I still think they should have cranked out a '28 months later' first, then 28 years later as a natural follow-up and split across two films to allow them to explore the setting because jumping 28 years into the future removes you so far from where you started that you'd need to tie it all together.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 1/11/2024, 10:03 AM
There hasn't been a decent zombie movie in a long ass time.
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 1/11/2024, 10:06 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Dude what there's been hella good zombie movies out.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 1/11/2024, 10:06 AM
@HashTagSwagg - The Night Eats the World was genuinely creepy the first half.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 1/11/2024, 10:07 AM
@HammerLegFoot - Train to Busan was awesome.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/11/2024, 10:03 AM

I will check it out.

Those movies were pretty good.

I wonder if a Hillary Clinton zombie could actually look worse than the real thing. **shudder**

mountainman
mountainman - 1/11/2024, 10:31 AM
@DocSpock - It certainly would be less evil and have a lower kill count.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/11/2024, 10:51 AM
@mountainman -

2 very true & important points.
HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 1/11/2024, 10:05 AM
Man I use to love this movie as a kid. And I like the sequel. But I had always wondered what happened to Cillian's character. Should have done a 28 hours later.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/11/2024, 10:16 AM
@HammerLegFoot - yeah, I'd love it if he came back, he was so good in the first one. I'm guessing he was in his very late 20s to mid 30s so they'd have to age him up on screen to be somewhere in his 50s or even early 60s.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 1/11/2024, 10:20 AM
@HammerLegFoot - Didn't 28 Weeks Later establish that the survivors in London were evacuated and given sanctuary in the United States and only some people within their group number were allowed to return based on clearance? So perhaps Jim, Selena, and Hannah were not part of the first wave of citizens who returned. And after the events of 28 Weeks Later, The US stopped the relocation process.
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