As a movie enthusiast with a penchant for horror and a soft spot for Danny Boyle‘s masterpieces, I can’t help but feel my heart racing at the prospect of “28 Years Later.” With its stellar cast, intriguing plotline, and the return of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle, it promises to be a thrilling ride that will undoubtedly leave us on the edge of our seats.
28 years after its initial release, Danny Boyle’s zombie franchise will officially resume in June 2025. While we have a few more months to wait for the premiere, Ralph Fiennes, one of the film’s stars, has shared some details about the sequel’s plot ahead of time.
During a chat with IndieWire regarding his upcoming movie, the Pope thriller “Conclave”, Fiennes disclosed some information about “28 Years Later”, the film that brings Alex Garland and Danny Boyle together once more, with Garland serving as writer and Boyle directing. Clearly, it moves 28 years into the future, but here’s what Fiennes mentioned about the storyline:
Twenty-eight years have passed since the onset of this dreadful epidemic, which transformed many humans into violent, rabid individuals, leaving isolated pockets of uninfected communities in Britain. The narrative revolves around a determined young boy who seeks a physician to save his ailing mother. Accompanied by her, he navigates through the picturesque northern English countryside.
But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.”
28 Years Later serves as the third installment in a series that debuted in 2002, where we find Jim (played by Cillian Murphy), awakening from a coma in an abandoned London. He discovers that a virus has transformed humans into aggressive and hungry zombies, but his encounters with survivors rekindle his hope. The follow-up, titled 28 Weeks Later, was helmed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, and unlike the original, it didn’t include any of the initial film’s characters. Instead, it centered around a pair of siblings trying to evade their infected father. In this new chapter, the cast returns, with Oscar-winning Murphy reuniting with Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jodie Comer.
Not only does this news about next year have us buzzing with anticipation, but Fiennes also disclosed some intriguing insights concerning the future of the 28 series. Interestingly, Fiennes didn’t specify whether it was a matter of years, decades, or even centuries, instead he mentioned:
It’s three films, of which two have been shot.
Why 28 Days Later is Such an Important Film for the Horror Genre
In the movie “28 Days Later,” Boyle significantly reshaped the zombie genre by introducing rapid, mindless zombies. Moreover, during the era of numerous remakes in the early 2000s, he demonstrated that original horror could flourish. The film was also innovative when it came to realism and slow-building drama, portraying Jim as an ordinary survivor, rather than someone striving to become a savior.
28 Days Later is widely considered one of the greatest zombie movies ever produced. Though it doesn’t quite reach George A. Romero’s pioneering depiction of a zombie apocalypse, Danny Boyle achieved something extraordinary with 28 Days Later. He managed to convey the despair in a dystopian world when, irrespective of genre, humans (and Americans particularly) usually received a happy ending. Despite its open and somewhat hopeful conclusion, the lingering uncertainty forever solidified the notion that “in an apocalypse, we don’t want Boyle’s zombies.
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2024-10-26 03:02