Danny Boyle to reunite with Alex Garland on ’28 Years Later’
Directors Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are set to team up once again. The British film pair are collaborating to develop a sequel to the 2002 horror movie 28 Days Later.
Boyle will direct 28 Years Later, which will be written by Garland, mirroring the roles that the duo had while making the original film. In 2007, a sequel called 28 Weeks Later was released. However, Boyle and Garland only served as executive producers on the project.
Now, the 28 Years Later film is said to begin a new trilogy of movies in the franchise, with Boyle taking the directorial reins on the first of three, while Garland will be penning each of the movies.
Each film is slated to have a budget of around $75million. As of yet, a release date for 28 Years Later has not yet been announced, nor have details of its cast been released.
The original 28 Days Later film is a landmark work of cinema in the zombie film genre, with its faster and more aggressive undead and its dark tone. Cillian Murphy plays a young man who wakes up from a coma four weeks after a virus turns most of the UK into murderous zombies.
Last year, Garland said of plans for a sequel: “So we’re talking about it quite seriously, quite diligently…If he doesn’t want to direct it himself I’ll be well up for it if we can execute a similarly good idea.”
He added: “I resisted [making a sequel] for a long time because there were things about 28 Weeks that bugged me…I just thought, ‘F*ck that. I’d rather try to write a different story in a different world’.”
Watch the trailer for 28 Days Later below.
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