![]() ![]() London on screen: how the bridge scene in 28 Days Later was filmed. While Danny Boyle directed 28 Days Later on a modest 8 million budget, its runaway success poised 28 Weeks Later to be a blockbuster sequel. ![]() Danny Boyle and Alex Garland took producing roles along side Andrew Macdonald. So yeah, I love the idea and it’s very appealing to me.’īoth the original and sequel enjoyed a slightly twisted resurgence in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic and with them making a decent haul at the box office, it’s easy to see why film producers and audiences want more action A sequel, 28 Weeks Later, was released on May 11, 2007. But a third part would get people in, if it was half-decent.’Īsked about returning to the franchise, Murphy tells NME : ‘It really stands up, which is amazing for a film that’s 20 years old. ‘It’s hard for companies distributing films and for cinema chains to show films – they’re struggling to get people into the cinema, unless it’s something like Top Gun: Maverick or Marvel. It might come back into focus, because one of the things that’s happening in the business at the moment is there has to be a big reason for you to go to the cinema, because there are less and less reasons. ‘It feels like a very good time, actually. in reprising the role of Jim for a sequel to '28 Days Later.'. That movie ended with the revelation that the virus has made its way overseas to Europe, so it’s possible that a third movie in the franchise would explore the Rage virus’s global impact. Given how he got his big break in the 2002 zombie flick 28 Days Later. It was followed in 2007 by sequel 28 Weeks Later, with neither Boyle or Murphy returning and Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo behind the camera. The original starred Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to learn of a highly contagious virus that has caused society to collapse, with aggressive zombies on the loose across London. ![]() Looks like these Infected zombies still have legs.Danny Boyle has hinted that his 2002 zombie apocalypse horror 28 Days Later could be getting another sequel. Everyone else will be left satisfied and satiated – at least until the inevitable third installment charges into cinemas.Ī frantic follow-up that delivers jolts, claret and just enough character to make you care. Yet, there are moments here that beckon nightmares: the puking, raging Infected remain terrifyingly implacable beserkers empty London landmarks (Regents Park, The Millennium Bridge, Wembley Stadium) are eerily strange yet familiar and the opening 10 minutes – all handheld cameras and chaotic self-preservation as the Infected attack a rural farmhouse – deserves props as one of the most disturbingly intense sequences you’ll see this year.īy the time the credits roll (and an epilogue opens up the possibility of 28 Months Later across the Channel), the Infected will be the only ones moaning. And don’t question the logic either (oh, go on then – would anyone really tonsil snog their Infected wife?) The dialogue isn’t quite so successful, with Rose Byrne’s scientist and Jeremy Renner’s army sniper given to uttering atmosphere-piercing clichés. Fresnadillo isn’t afraid of standing still – he works hard to bring a little humanity to the blood-splattered proceedings – but he’s at his best when screeching packs of Infected are hoofing, chomping and, in one colourful sequence, being mass decapitated by helicopter. Ugh, so now the comic dovetails into the terrible film sequel 28 Weeks Later. Following the film's success, a 2007 sequel, 28 Weeks Later, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, was made like the previous film, it also garnered generally positive reaction from critics, and was a box office success. 28 Weeks Later Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillos sequel to Danny Boyles admired zombie chiller '28 Days Later,' is a ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters. It’s non-stop action, breathless to the point of asthma. ![]()
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