Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes will star in 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle’s upcoming sequel to the zombie horror classic 28 Days Later.
The new film will mark the reunion of Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, who directed and wrote the 2002 original and served as executive producers on the 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later.
28 Years Later is the first part of a planned sequel trilogy. Earlier this month, Deadline reported that Candyman director Nia DiCosta is in talks to helm the second installment, which is planned to be shot alongside the first film.
28 Days Later – which the Guardian called a “muscular, masculine piece of filmmaking” in 2002 – became a critical success and an unexpected box-office hit soon after its release
Cillian Murphy talks about 28 Years Later
The unknown Cillian Murphy who made a splash
Plot details for the sequels remain unclear, though they boast $75 million budgets for each film and now plenty of star power — a far cry from “28 Days Later,” which was made on $8 million and starred a relative unknown Cillian Murphy in a breakout role.
Murphy played a bicycle postman who wakes up from a coma in a post-apocalyptic United Kingdom, which has been ravaged by a virus that turns victims into bloodthirsty attackers. Academy Award winner Oppenheimer will return as an executive producer on 28 Years Later.
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“Muscular, masculine piece of filmmaking”
28 Days Later – which the Guardian called a “muscular, masculine piece of filmmaking” in 2002 – became a critical success and an unexpected box-office hit soon after its release.
It is largely credited with reviving the zombie horror genre and popularizing the portrayal of zombies as fast-moving, terrifying attackers rather than sluggish corpses.
*With data from theguardian
