Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Written by: Alex Garland
Wait, we had 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Now they’re advertising 28 Years Later.
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What happened to 28 Months Later?
They better make that prequel before they even think about working on 28 Decades Later!
All joking aside, I wonder how this movie will turn out. Considering almost everyone who was infected, pretty much died from natural causes after 28 weeks, I suspect after 28 Years, the virus would have well and truly killed itself off, with human civilization being long gone. But that would make for a very different type of movie to what audiences would probably expect (one more akin to Mad Max than a zombie movie). So I’m curious as to what they’ll do.
I’m just gonna guess that it’s easier to do a triptych / trilogy of stories to show the long term effects on the world of the virus. There wouldn’t have been much of a change between Weeks and Months, but to show how devastating it was after Years seems perfect to me. I do wonder if they considered doing Months before skipping to Years, tho.
And the trailer shows a lot while not giving a single thing away… I like it!