We Now Know a Bit More About 28 Years Later and Its Trilogy

Clearly we each cognize however overmuch clip has passed betwixt the worlds of 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later. And, if you don’t know, we’ll springiness you a 2nd to deliberation astir it. Yes. It’s 28 years. And portion that’s comparatively obvious, a caller interrogation with the manager and writer of the upcoming zombie movie talked astir however the transition of clip is important to setting up everything to come.

28 Years Later opens connected June 20 and it’s the 3rd film successful a bid primitively created by writer Alex Garland (who went connected to marque Civil War, Ex Machina, and more) and manager Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire). After stepping speech for 28 Weeks Later, the brace person reunited for the archetypal movie successful a projected trilogy that picks up with the zombie outbreak 3 decades aft it started. “It was a wholly antithetic approach,” Boyle said in a caller interrogation with Empire. “It was astir what that 28 years gives you.”

What 28 years gives you is stability. In 28 Years Later, the satellite has travel to presumption with the zombies. They’ve learned to unrecorded with them and made them a portion of their lives. The movie shows that done the eyes of a tiny land that has isolated itself from the remainder of the country. “It’s a closed and needfully precise choky community,” Boyle said. “There are precise strict defence laws, obviously, to past that agelong successful what is efficaciously an ongoing hostile environment. They’ve created a palmy community, arsenic they spot it.”

The community, called Holy Island, is lone accessible from the mainland via a tiny roadworthy that lone appears a fewer hours a time erstwhile the tide drops. So, they’re comparatively safe. But the movie goes beyond that, pursuing a begetter (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his woman (Jodie Comer) who instrumentality their 12-year-old lad (Alfie Williams) connected a travel to amusement him the truths of the world. Things don’t spell according to plan.

That communicative volition past proceed successful a 2nd film, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta. It’s already been changeable and a merchandise day is acceptable for January 16, 2026, meaning audiences volition only person to hold astir 28 weeks to see what happens adjacent aft 28 Years Later. As for the 3rd film, though, Boyle volition nonstop but lone if audiences respond to the archetypal one. “This is precise narratively ambitious,” Garland told Empire. “Danny and I understood that. We tried to condense it, but its earthy signifier felt similar a trilogy.”

As for the prima of the archetypal film, and enforcement shaper of this trilogy, Cillian Murphy, helium volition not beryllium appearing successful the archetypal film. But, that doesn’t mean helium won’t look astatine all. “He is not successful the archetypal film, but I’m hoping determination volition beryllium immoderate Jim determination on the line,” shaper Andrew Macdonald said to Empire. The reply points to long-standing rumors that he’ll amusement up successful DaCosta’s film.

Together, Boyle and Garland are a formidable team. Neither had to instrumentality to the franchise they helped create. That they wanted to, and privation to marque it this big, gives america tons of assurance that we’re going to spot thing peculiar successful a fewer months. It each starts June 20.

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