Luckily, ’28 Weeks Later’ (2007), the sequel to Boyle’s title directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (‘Intacto’, ‘Intruders’, ‘Damsel’), knew how to stay at the same level while leaving his acolytes wanting more, a wish that will soon be fulfilled with a third installment for which we are preparing with this compilation of everything we know about ’28 years later’.
The long-awaited sequel to the infected saga, “28 Years Later,” has finally set its release date for June 20, 2025. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, the duo behind the original 2002 film “28 Days Later,” are collaborating once again on this new project, which will seek to revive the tension and terror that captivated audiences around the world.
28 Years Later Release Date
The release date of ’28 Years Later’ is June 20, 2025, coinciding with the live-action remake ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (Dean DeBlois, 2025), the Pixar film ‘Elio’ (Adrián Molina, 2015) and ‘Ballerina’ (Len Wiseman, 2025), the spin-off of the John Wick universe with Ana de Armas.
28 Years Later Synopsis
We know little at the moment about the plot of ’28 Years Later’ except that, surely, it will occur 28 years after the spread of a virus devastated Britain, and, as we saw at the end of ’28 Weeks Later’, it spread. through continental Europe from France.
“The idea of a new trilogy suddenly arose in my head,” Alex Garland told The Guardian, confirming that he has once again been responsible for the script that Boyle will film and that it intends to be the first of three installments.
Garland himself has stated that, in the same way that his inspiration for ’28 Days Later’ was ‘The Day of the Triffids’, the novel by John Wyndham published in 1951, the basis for ’28 Years Later’ has been ‘Kes’ (1969), Ken Loach’s film in which a young man who lives poorly in a sad mining town finds a small injured falcon whom he decides to take care of until it can fly.
28 Years Later Team
The director of ’28 Years Later’ will once again be Danny Boyle, the British man who, after making his debut with the wonderful ‘Open Grave’ (1994), went down in history with ‘Trainspotting’ (1996), winning the Oscar Award for best director for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (2008), and again collecting the statuette for best adapted screenplay for ‘127 Hours’ (2010). His filmography also includes ‘A Different Story’ (1997), ‘The Beach’ (2000), ‘Sunshine’ (2007), and ‘Steve Jobs’ (2015).
Alex Garland, who, in addition to writing the script for the film that started it all, was also responsible for scripts such as ‘Sunshine’ (Danny Boyle, 2007), ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), and ‘Dredd’ (Pete Travis, 2012), made his debut as a director with the wonderful ‘Ex Machina’ (2014), followed by ‘Annihilation’ (2018), the brilliant miniseries ‘Devs’ (2020), and the recent ‘Civil War’. The war movie everyone is talking about imagines a dystopian future that is more real than you think.
28 Years Later Cast
The first to sign up for the cast of ’28 Years Later’ were Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and Jack O’Connell, four stars who were not present in the two previous titles, so, for now, there is no more data on their characters.
The one we do know the most about is Jim, the young man who woke up from a coma 28 days after the start of the pandemic and had to discover what had happened in London on the fly. The then unknown Cillian Murphy will return to the franchise as the Oscar winner for ‘Oppenheimer’ (Christopher Nolan, 2023), having shone in titles such as ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ (Ken Loach, 2006) and the applauded ‘Peaky Blinders’, available in the Netflix series catalog and on Prime Video.
28 Years Later Trailer, Poster and Images
It’s still too early for all this, but while we wait, let’s remember that, despite the overdose of the living dead, small miracles still happen, like ‘Train to Busan’ (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016) and ‘One Cut of the Dead’ (Shiniciro Ueda, 2017). There is hope!
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