Danny Boyle directs the third movie within the post-apocalyptic franchise, 28 Years Later.
The critically acclaimed 2002 movie 28 Days Later is usually credited with sparking the Twenty first-century revival of the zombie style. Director Danny Boyle is again with extra zombie-virus dystopian horror in his new movie set in the identical fictional world, 28 Years Later—not a lot a direct sequel however the begin of a brand new deliberate trilogy.
(Some spoilers for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later beneath.)
In 28 Days Later, a extremely contagious “Rage Virus” is by accident launched from a lab in Cambridge, England. These contaminated flip into violent, senseless monsters who brutally assault the uninfected—so-called “quick zombies.” Transmitted by bites, scratches, and even simply by getting a drop of contaminated blood in a single’s mouth, the virus spreads quickly, successfully collapsing society. A bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma 28 days later to seek out London principally abandoned, other than a handful of survivors fleeing the contaminated hordes, and joins them within the pursuit of security. Jim (barely) survives, and we see zombies dying of hunger within the streets throughout the denouement.
The sequel, 28 Weeks Later, featured a brand new solid of characters dwelling on the outskirts of London. With the assistance of NATO troopers, Britain has begun rebuilding, taking in refugees and transferring them to safe-zone districts. However all it takes is one careless individual getting contaminated and raging out for the virus to unfold uncontrollably but once more. So naturally, that is what occurs. The survivors ultimately flee to France, just for the trend virus to unfold there, too.
As early as 2007, Boyle had plans for a 3rd movie, set 28 months after the unique outbreak, nevertheless it ended up in improvement hell. When the movie lastly bought the inexperienced mild in January 2024, the title had modified to 28 Years Later, given how a lot time had handed. Alex Garland returns as screenwriter and likewise wrote the 2 sequels for this new trilogy.
How a lot time do we’ve left?
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Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) are on a mission to the mainland.
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Jamie takes purpose at an encroaching menace.
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Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) are on a mission to the mainland.
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Jamie takes purpose at an encroaching menace.
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Right here be zombies.
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Isla (Jodie Comer) fleeing zombies along with her new child child.
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Isla (Jodie Comer) fleeing zombies along with her new child child.
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Per the official synopsis:
It’s been nearly three a long time for the reason that rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island linked to the mainland by a single, closely defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as effectively.
Jodie Comer performs Isla, who lives along with her husband, Jamie, (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and 12-year-old son, Spike (Alfie Williams), on the aforementioned island. Isla is pregnant, and Jamie scrounges out a dwelling as a scavenger. The solid additionally contains Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Kelson, one of many survivors of the unique outbreak; Jack O’Connell as cult chief Sir Jimmy Crystal; Edvin Ryding as Swedish NATO soldier Erik Sundqvist; Erin Kellyman as Jimmy Ink; and Emma Laird in an as-yet-undisclosed position.