- Original 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle will direct trilogy capper
- 28 Years Later creative team promise a different take story
- 28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple already shot
28 Years Later isn’t even out yet but plans are already firmly in place for its future.
Earlier this year, the first teaser trailer for director Danny Boyle’s return to this rage-infused world was released. It didn’t take long for the internet to lose its mind. This was partly due to the trailer’s innovative use of a creepy Rudyard Kipling poem that amped up the tension.
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A 28 Year Later sequel is already in the can, with Candyman remake filmmaker Nia DaCosta having shot 28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple.
Rumors were heavy that Boyle and original 28 Days Later scribe Alex Garland were planning a new trilogy but no word had emerged on who might helm 28 Years Later part 3… until now.
28 Years Later Part 3 director revealed
Boyle and Garland recently sat down for a chat with Empire magazine where it was confirmed that Boyle will direct 28 Years Later Part 3.
According to the outlet, the film’s third instalment won’t go into production until Boyle’s first part of the trilogy is released and audiences have reacted to his and Garland’s new story.
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Together, the duo told Empire that their decision to split their new narrative into three chunks was needed to do their new story justice.
“This is very narratively ambitious. Danny and I understood that,” said Garland. “We tried to condense it, but its natural form felt like a trilogy.”
What happens in 28 Years Later?
Elsewhere in the same chat, Boyle explained that his and Garland’s new story wanted to explore what Britain would look like if it had been forced to endure years of a zombie pandemic.
For those unaware, the undead in 28 Days Later weren’t technically zombies. Instead, they were people who had been infected with a virus that transformed them into a constant state of rage.
While explaining his comments, Boyle shed some light on the plot of his new sequel.
“It was a wholly different approach,” explained Boyle. “It was about what that 28 years gives you.”
Guiding us through this world are Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Isla (Jodie Comer) and their young son Spike (Alfie Williams). Together, they live in a heavily guarded community that’s separated from the mainland by a bridge only accessible via low tides.
“It’s a closed and necessarily very tight community,” Boyle told Empire. “There are very strict defence laws, obviously, to survive that long in what is effectively an ongoing hostile environment. They’ve created a successful community, as they see it.”
Unfortunately, like any horror film, things don’t stay calm for very long. As for how exactly things go awry, we’ll have to wait and see.
