28 YEARS LATER Star Ralph Fiennes Shares Spoilery Plot Details And Confirms Two Movies Have Been Shot

28 YEARS LATER Star Ralph Fiennes Shares Spoilery Plot Details And Confirms Two Movies Have Been Shot

Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter) has shared the first plot details for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later sequels, and it sounds like 28 Years Later's follow-up has also wrapped shooting...

By JoshWilding - Oct 27, 2024 10:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: IndieWire (via Fear HQ)

Production wrapped on 28 Years Later earlier this year, with that set to be the first instalment of a planned trilogy picking up after the events of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 28 Weeks Later.

While plot details for the movie have been kept under wraps until now, we know that Boyle will return to direct this opening chapter before handing over the reins to Nia DaCosta (The Marvels) for the sequel. According to star Ralph Fiennes, that follow-up has already been shot!

"It’s three films, of which two have been shot," he said in a recent interview with IndieWire (via FearHQ.com). "Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother."

"He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain. But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected," Fiennes continued. "But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good."

That third chapter hasn't started production yet and we still don't know who is directing. However, the fact two of these movies have been filmed bodes well for Boyle's trilogy becoming a reality as he envisioned. 

The impressive cast also includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Erin Kellyman, and the returning Cillian Murphy (while he's not officially attached to star, he will be executive producing and is expected to make a cameo appearance at the very least).

"I’ve always said I would love to be involved because that movie changed everything for me and I have great affection for it and for those guys Alex [Garland] and Danny [Boyle]," the Oscar winner said back in February. "I never watch my own films, except that one. It’s always on around Halloween and during the pandemic people were constantly sending me clips."

"And I’ve shown it to my kids. And it’s really stood up, even though it’s something like 23 years old now. So I’m really thrilled that we’ll get the band back together to makes this one."

This franchise's return has been a very long time coming and, given how close to the initial zombie outbreak the previous movies played out during, it will be interesting to see what the world looks like nearly three decades later. 

28 Years Later is currently set to open in theaters on June 30, 2025.

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ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 10/27/2024, 10:52 AM
The sequels are " 28years and 1 week later", followed by " Shortly after 28 years and 1 week later"
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 10:58 AM
@ProfessorWhy - I always wonder why the skipped 28 month later, THEN 28 years later and like you said, 28 years and one week later or 28 Years and 28 Days later.
IAmAHoot
IAmAHoot - 10/28/2024, 4:02 PM
@lazlodaytona - 28 seconds later is more my speed...
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/30/2024, 10:34 AM
@IAmAHoot - Heck yeah! That's like 12 sequels in one year :D
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 10/27/2024, 11:27 AM
I thought this movie was still in the script-writing stage...

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lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:00 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - No. I personally know one of the actresses in this, she's not named above because she's not as popular here as she is in the U.K.
They've been filming everyday for a LONG while now. So, the article is pretty much accurate.
dragon316
dragon316 - 10/27/2024, 12:11 PM
Plots usually same in horror movies nothing new we have not saw before
KurtLazner
KurtLazner - 10/28/2024, 3:32 AM
@dragon316 - Danny Boyle always delivers. This is just surface level plot details.
Fares
Fares - 10/27/2024, 12:31 PM
Why don't they make 28 weeks later first? What will the sequels be called? Are we gonna have a 28 years later? 28 decades? We gonna go cyberpunk?
Nolanite
Nolanite - 10/27/2024, 4:28 PM
@Fares - read your own comment dumbass.
28 weeks later was the sequel. Imbeciles like you shouldn't be allowed to participate in internet activities.
Fares
Fares - 10/27/2024, 9:37 PM
@Nolanite - I meant to say months. I have dishonored myself. I shall commit seppuku.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:02 AM
@Fares - They did make 28 Weeks Later. It's the sequel to the 1st.

It should have been 28 Months Later, THEN 28 Years Later, and either 28 Years and 28 Days Later or or 28 Decades Later.
S8R8M
S8R8M - 10/27/2024, 12:38 PM
Hopefully 28 Months Later, then Years and then decades.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:03 AM
@S8R8M - EXACTLY. Why they skipped "Months Later" kinda blows my mind. That would make a trilogy a lot easier to make and start with.
S8R8M
S8R8M - 10/28/2024, 11:14 AM
@lazlodaytona - I know because it would make sense to release Years in 2030 for it to be exactly 28 years.
I think it is a fickle thing for artists.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:26 AM
@S8R8M - agreed sir
TheDpool
TheDpool - 10/27/2024, 12:47 PM
I love that Murphy has shown his kids. I can remember Friday night horror night with my dad when i was young. And when it came to 28 Days later, after watching stuff like Return of the Living Dead, he told me to prepare myself as he put the dvd of 28 Days on.
NickScryer
NickScryer - 10/27/2024, 2:09 PM
I loved the first two, so I'm looking forward to this.

But it was apparently shot on an iPhone, we'll see if it works.
Nolanite
Nolanite - 10/27/2024, 4:29 PM
28 years later and then 28 days before.
A sequel and a prequel which should lead into 28 hours later.
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 10/27/2024, 5:31 PM
Only one as far as I am concerned.

Not everything needs to be franchised...
BraxtonHicks
BraxtonHicks - 10/27/2024, 5:49 PM
A prequel, 28hrs Later?
Another 28 days?
Another 28 Weeks?
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:05 AM
@BraxtonHicks -
Then:
28 Months Later
Years Later
Decades Later
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 10/28/2024, 11:07 AM
They didn't mention the actress Jodie Comer from the U.K. is in this too. Highly underrated actress. If you've never watched it, on Netflix watch "Killing Eve." You won't be disappointed in the series or Miss Comer's tremendous acting.

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