While Danny Boyle and Alex Garland keep going with 28 Years Later (28 years later), first chapter of a trilogy that will continue the story of 28 days later and 28 weeks later, Sony Pictures is working hard to cement its franchise. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has announced the signing of three big Hollywood stars for these films.
In 2002, Danny Boyle released the science-fiction film about zombies 28 days later, which became a true box office success. Starting from a budget of 8 million, the film reached a whopping figure of 84 million collection. This allowed the launch of a second installment in 2007, 28 weeks laterwhich did not achieve the same revenue as the first, but achieved the title of horror film classic over the years.
The first rumors came after the filmmaker Alex Garland (ex machina, Civil War), Whoever it was screenwriter of the first installment and executive producer of the second, will claim to have completed a script for the sequel. The North American media then reported that it was a new trilogy with Boyle as director of the first film and a budget of 75 million dollars for each one.
Both would return to produce the film, as they did previously, also counting on the original producer. Andrew Macdonald and with Peter Riceformer head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of the former Twentieth Century Fox studio that originally backed the British film and its sequel.
The protagonists of ’28 years later’?
Just a few weeks ago we knew that Cillian Murphywinner of the Oscar for best male performance in 2024 for Oppenheimerwould return to the franchise after being the protagonist of the first film in 2002. While waiting to know if he could also be one of its protagonists, the Irishman joined the film as executive producer, while the media is now echoing the signing of many other actors.
According to new information shared by THRSony would have signed Hollywood actors Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, Bikeriders. The law of the asphalt), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (The specialist, bullet train) and Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List), although details about their characters are still unknown.
A possible director for the sequel
As Boyle and Garland prepare for the return of their undead, sony He already has his eyes on a filmmaker who could take charge of the second installment. deadline warned that the studio could have found a filmmaker to replace Boyle.
Is about Nia DaCosta, known for its acclaimed reboot of Candyman and also for The Marvels, a much less valued film that, however, made her the first African American director with a number 1 at the US box office.
Rigorous sources indicate that Sony Pictures He wants to start shooting the second film immediately after the first, hence his rush to find a director to take over from Danny Boyle. The script for the new chapter, of course, will also be written by Alex Garland who is unwilling to get behind the camera again after the premiere of Civil War.
’28 days later’ and ’28 weeks later’
28 days later assumed a revitalization of zombie cinemabeginning to be treated as infected people and influencing later sagas such as The Last of Us either The Walking Dead. The first film featured Cillian Murphy as Jim, a man who woke up from a coma in a hospital in a post-apocalyptic England, after the spread of a virus that had turned its victims into ferocious killers.
For its part, the sequel I had Tammy (Imogen Poots) and his younger brother, Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton), who had to survive in a grim and harmful world six months after the spread of the virus. A film that also featured famous faces such as Rose Byrne or Jeremy Renner on the military side.
This second film It was directed by the Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadilloknown by titles such as Intact either Intrudersand who recently participated in the series DamselMillie Bobby Brown’s new work for Netflix.
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