Jack O’Connell Joins 28 YEARS LATER Trilogy From Danny Boyle and Alex Garland
Director Danny Boyle has cast Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) in his upcoming film 28 Years Later, which is the first of a trilogy of films set in a world overrun with Zombies.
O’Connell joins the previously cast Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes. Boyle is directing the first movie from a script by Alex Garland.
O’Connell is said to be playing more of a supporting character in the first film and more of a lead role in second one.
The original movie centered on a bicycle courier (Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to discover the world had been overrun with zombies following the outbreak of a virus.
There are still no plot details to share, but Garland previously offered some insight on the theme of the film. He shared: “It’s to do with the passage of time, and thinking about what effect the passage of time would have.”
He added: “Is it what you would traditionally call a post-apocalyptic state? Or has something else begun to manifest? Time is really at the core of the engine of the film.”
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.”
Boyle is set to direct the first film in the trilogy and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta is in talks to helm the second one.
Source: Deadline