Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later Lands at Sony Pictures and Cillian Murphy Confirmed To Return
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have been developing another sequel to 28 Days Later and this one is titled 28 Years Later. There were several studios trying to land the distribution rights to the film and this project ended up at Sony Pictures.
On top of that, Cillian Murphy, whose acting career was launched with the original movie, is confirmed to return and produce the project and also possibly reprise his role, which is very likely. The first film also may kick off a trilogy.
Boyle is attached to direct the first installment of the trilogy, and Garland will write all of the projects. The budget for each movie would be around $60 million.
In a previous interview, Boyle teased his interest in making the film, saying: “I’d be very tempted [to direct it]. It feels like a very good time actually. It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it until you just said it, and I remembered ‘Bang, this script!’ which is again set in England, very much about England. Anyway, we’ll see… who knows?”
Boyle went on to explain: “It might come back into focus because one of the things that’s happening in the business at the moment is it has to be a big reason for you to go to the cinema, because there are less and less reasons. 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 a Marvel. But a third part would get people in, if it was half-decent.”
As for what we can expect, when previously teasing the third movie, Garland said: "I have got a really cool idea for it, but it's a much bigger movie, and one of the things about 28 Days Later is that it was small and punk and this idea is less small and punk. But me and Danny speak about it. Every couple of years it will come up, or going, 'Do you want to do that?' and then for some reason it never happens."
Cillian Murphy also previously said of the franchise: “Every time I do bump into Danny or Alex I always mention it. I showed it to my kids recently — some Halloween about four or five years ago — and they loved it. It really stands up, which is amazing for a film that’s 20 years old. So yeah, I love the idea and it’s very appealing to me.”
Are you excited that this zombie project is moving forward? It’s pretty cool that after all these of of talking about making a sequel, they are actually doing it!
Source: THR