We’re nonetheless just a few years early, however go off. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reuniting to launch 28 Years Later with Sony Photos in 2025. This follows the 2007 launch of 28 Weeks Later, their sequel to their post-apocalyptic horror movie 28 Days Later. Rumors of a 3rd film have been spreading as early as 2015; however we lastly took a number of zombie steps nearer this 12 months. In line with The Hollywood Reporter, Boyle and Garland started buying their new venture to potential consumers in January 2024 … besides it apparently wasn’t only one film. They have been reportedly pitching a complete trilogy of recent movies. Right here’s the most recent on what we all know in regards to the upcoming first installment, together with what occurs within the trailer (is that our favourite bike messenger, Cillian Murphy?), who’s within the forged, and when the discharge date is.
Set to a creepy recitation of Rudyard Kipling’s warfare poem “Boots,” the two-minute trailer performs fairly coy with the plot. Clearly, the world remains to be coping with a zombie downside. We see terrified youngsters, Aaron Taylor-Johnson with a bow and arrow, individuals with some disturbing masks on, a large pile of skulls, and a sickly determine that appears suspiciously like Cillian Johnson. However apart from that, it’s not instantly clear precisely what’s occurring.
Fortunately, an official synopsis provides us some useful context for the footage. Regardless of a “ruthlessly enforced” quarantine, some individuals have discovered methods to exist “amidst the contaminated,” almost three a long time after the “rage virus” escaped. “One such group of survivors lives on a small island related to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway,” the synopsis reads. “When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as nicely.”
The primary movie stars Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, who wakes up from a coma to a contagious, lethal illness that turns people into zombies. 2007’s 28 Weeks Later takes place after the preliminary outbreak and is a stand-alone movie following completely different survivors (Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, and Catherine McCormack).
Deadline reported in April that Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Prepare) and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu) can be our newest group of Brits combating off the undead. Youngster star Alfie Williams and Derbeian actor Jack O’Connell have been later additionally confirmed as forged members.
Up to now, Cillian Murphy at present hasn’t been listed as a forged member in official 28 Years Later promo supplies. But in a Could interview with Deadline, Sony’s Tom Rothman stated that Murphy can be returning to the 28-iverse. However in a brand new, freaky approach. When requested if Murphy would seem in 28 Years Later, he replied, “Sure, however in a shocking approach and in a approach that grows, let me put it that approach.” So, like, he’s a zombie? Feels like he’s going to cameo as a zombie. “I believe I’ve made eight films with Danny Boyle and I maintain him within the Pantheon and we’ve got his new 28 Days trilogy,” Rothman stated. “It’s 28 Years Later, however not in any approach a literal sequel.” Besides that Cillian Murphy is actually returning, proper?
Yup. Actually, Ralph Fiennes instructed IndieWire in October 2024 that the primary two components had already been shot. 28 Years Later reportedly filmed back-to-back with its sequel, which a copyright submitting appears to recommend could also be referred to as 28 Years Later Half II: The Bone Temple. (We nonetheless like our earlier suggestion: 28 Years Later 2: Uhhhh…29 Years Later?, however no matter). Deadline reported that Boyle will directing the primary movie, whereas Candyman director Nia DaCosta will direct the second.
Depend the times till the discharge date of June 20, 2025. Relying on who you ask, that’s someplace between 22 and 23 years after 28 Days Later got here out (November 2002 within the U.Okay., June 2003 within the U.S.). Only a few extra years, and the title would have actually hit completely different, huh?