Quick ahead to 2024 and it sounds just like the rights holders are lastly chatting once more as a result of 28 Years Later is formally a go, with Danny Boyle again to direct a brand new script from Alex Garland. The information comes from THR, which experiences that the 28 Days Later duo intention to make an entire trilogy of sequels to the cult basic horror film. The filmmakers are at present purchasing the mission to film studios and streamers, with a goal price range of $75 million per film.
This may in fact be very welcome information for followers who’ve waited nearly 20 years to see what occurs subsequent within the 28 Days Later universe. But it surely’s unclear whether or not the brand new films would choose up after the occasions of 28 Weeks Later, which Boyle and Garland have been solely govt producers on, or observe up on the unique extra immediately. For his half, 28 Days Later and Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy informed The Unbiased in 2023 that he’d “be there in a flash” for a sequel if Boyle and Garland have been to ask.
Boyle beforehand confirmed to NME in 2022 that Garland penned a script for a sequel he known as “28 Months Later” with a “pretty concept” that’s “once more set in England, very a lot about England.” And Garland additionally didn’t mince phrases in 2023 when he informed Inverse that he resisted the thought of one other sequel as a result of “there have been issues about 28 Weeks that bugged me. I simply thought, ‘Fuck that. I’d somewhat attempt to write a unique story in a unique world.”
In different phrases, it seems like no matter 28 Years Later is, it might find yourself sticking to its roots somewhat than observe the cliffhanger to France. But it surely definitely could be a disgrace to have waited this lengthy and never study far more about how the Rage Virus crossing the English Channel affected the remainder of the world. Or perhaps when the threequel begins, England is definitely the one secure haven left whereas the remainder of the world has burned down within the years following Weeks? Till this film, in fact.
It’s early days but for 28 Years Later, however we’ll maintain you posted as we hear extra.