Why 28 Days Later’s Author & Director Sat Out 28 Weeks Later Earlier than Franchise Return

The following sequel to 28 Days Later is coming to theaters this summer time. Meant to launch a brand new trilogy of movies, 28 Years Later serves as a follow-up to 2002’s 28 Days Later with unique director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland reuniting to proceed the story.

As followers of the franchise will know, 28 Years Later will not be the primary follow-up movie to 28 Days Later. In 2007, the primary sequel, 28 Weeks Later, was launched, however with completely different filmmakers; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed with a screenplay co-written with Rowan Joffe, E.L. Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo. In a brand new interview with The Playlist, Garland commented on getting again along with Boyle to revisit the franchise after the duo’s absence for 28 Weeks Later. The author stated that the one follow-up story the 2 of them might inform personally required a sure period of time to first go by.

“It was this,” Garland defined. “28 Days Later was a really uncynical movie. It had a punk sensibility. And with a view to make a follow-up to it, you couldn’t be in a cynical mindset. There’s varied the explanation why that wouldn’t have labored. And sufficient time had handed [with us]. There was a key concept that felt tonally appropriate to what we did 20-something years in the past.”

28 Years Later is meant to be the primary installment of a brand new trilogy of movies. Boyle is barely directing the primary film, nonetheless, as Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) is the director of the second chapter. Each movies are penned by Garland, although he confirmed to The Playlist that he’d solely written these two scripts presently. He didn’t state for sure if he will probably be concerned with the script for the third 28 Years Later film.

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28 Years Later will convey again unique 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy to function a producer; whereas it has been confirmed that Murphy will reprise his function from the movie in some unspecified time in the future within the trilogy, it is probably not on this first movie. The film stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding, and Emma Laird. It is not but clear what number of of those actors will probably be returning for DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, maybe pending on the survival of their characters in 28 Years Later.

A New Trilogy Begins With 28 Years Later

28 Years Later will probably be launched in theaters on June 20, 2025. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will comply with with its launch on Jan. 16, 2026. A launch date has not been set for the third chapter of the 28 Years Later trilogy presently.

Supply: The Playlist

28 Years Later

Launch Date

June 20, 2025

Producers

Andrew Macdonald, Cillian Murphy

Prequel(s)

28 Weeks Later, 28 Days Later

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  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Uncredited

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  Alfie Williams

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