It took 22 years to see Danny Boyle when staging a new film in the “28” saga. 1st part of a new trilogy “28 years later” is released this Wednesday, June 18 in our rooms. Everything you need to know before seeing the film.
22 years ago, Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland offered us one of the most successful infected films of the 2000s: 28 days later. Led by Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris & Christopher Eccleston, this film prohibits under 16 when it was released in theaters sees a commando for animal protection bursting in a top secret laboratory to deliver dozens of chimpanzees subject to terrible experiences.
But immediately released, the primates, contaminated by a mysterious virus, jump on their “saviors” and massacre them. 28 days later, the evil spread at a dazzling speed across the country, the population was evacuated en masse and London is only a ghost city. The rare survivors governed to escape the “contaminated” thirsty for violence. It is in this context that Jim, a courier, comes out of a deep coma.
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Released in 2003, 28 days later quickly established itself as a classic of genre cinema. With a budget of $ 8 million, the feature film that revealed Cillian Murphy brought $ 84 million to the international box office.
A sequel announced but long pushed …
Four years later, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo features the rest, entitled 28 weeks later. In this opus, the action of which takes place 6 months after the events of the first film, the American army arrives in a England ravaged by the virus and tries to restore civilization in London. Robert Carlyle takes over from Cillian Murphy and the work also achieves a nice score at the world box office: $ 65 million in revenue for a budget of 15 million.
At the end of the second film, we discover that infected have managed to escape and that the virus will spread all over the world. A final scene that suggested that a third part entitled 28 months later was going to see every day.
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But 16 years later, still nothing, however in various interviews Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and Cillian Murphy are all ready to come back for a third opus.
3 films instead of one!
In 2023, the screenwriter Alex Garland announces that the third film will finally take place 28 years after the facts told in the first feature film and everything accelerates.
Quickly, Danny Boyle declares that he will be back on staging and that this third opus will also be the first film in a new trilogy. 28 years later 2 is staged by Nia Dacosta to whom we owe the remake of Candyman and The Marvels.
The second part (or fourth film in the franchise) – subtitled The Bone Temple – was shot shortly after that of Danny Boyle. It is announced in our rooms for January 14, 2026. The shooting of the third installment, supposed to be directed by Boyle will start after the release of 28 years later and will be conditioned in the success in theaters of the feature film.
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Is Cillian Murphy in 28 years later?
If the announcement of the return of Cillian Murphy caused a lot of ink to flow (the producer of Sony Pictures Tom Rothman had declared to the microphone of Deadline in May 2024 that the actor recently oscored for his role in Oppenheimer will be in the casting of 28 years later “in a surprising way that develops over the films. “), We now know that the actor is not in the first part of the new trilogy.
The rapid announcement of the return of the star of the first film was a subterfuge of the team in order to find funding. Cillian Murphy – Executive producer of films – will be back in the new trilogy but not before the end of the second opus.
On June 3, Danny Boyle explained at the microphone ofIndiewire ::“This third film, we have been talking about it for a long time, Alex Garland and I, because it was obvious that the saga had kept its popularity. Not only the original film, but everything that followed. We often joked that we should have received a percentage on The Walking Dead or The Last of Us.
And then Alex wrote a scenario version where the virus was militarized. Any script of Alex is good, but we felt that we were not thrilled. We said: “Yes, that's good.” But that was everything. There was not this thrill. So we dropped. And then Alex returned with a much more ambitious idea: to withdraw from Europe and isolate the island. This new idea has spread over three films, two of which are already shot, and all the characters end up being linked – that's how Cillian Murphy enters the scene.
We were unscrupulous
He is an executive producer on this first film, and of course, we were unscrupulous – and he rightly approved – to use his name to obtain funding, saying: “You take this project with his name, and you will end up finding Cillian, and it will be his film. And immediately, as soon as we started to consider it like that, the project gained inventiveness. He focused on the characters, because the whole structure was based on them. “
The characters are indeed at the heart of this film which, in addition to being a horror film, is also a family drama.
Who is in the casting of 28 years later?
Beastica Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer & Ralph Fiennes
If Cillian Murphy is not in 28 years later, the casting is no less prestigious. The main roles were indeed entrusted to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, the young Alfie Williams, Edvin Ryding and Jack O'Connell.
The filming of 28 years later took place in the county of Northumberland in the north of England. The feature film, which is prohibited in theaters under 16, like the previous parts, acts as a result at 28 days and 28 weeks later, but also first -strictly part of a new trilogy. It can be seen independently of the previous films.
It has been almost thirty years since the fury virus has escaped from a biological armament laboratory. While a very strict containment has been put in place, some have found a way to survive among infected people. This is how a community of survivors took refuge on a small island only connected to the continent by a road, placed under high protection. When one of the inhabitants of the island is sent on a mission on the continent, he discovers that not only have changed, but that other survivors too, in a context that is both mysterious and terrifying …
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The actor Ralph Fiennes evoked the story of the film at the microphone D'Indiewire. He declares: “Great Britain has lived for 28 years under the yoke of this terrible epidemic which infects people and makes them violent and rabid humans. A few groups of non-infected communities remain. History focuses on a young boy who is looking for a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this magnificent landscape of northern England. But of course, around them, hidden, hidden and wood are the infected.
28 years later is planned in our dark rooms for June 18, 2025, almost 22 years for day after 28 days later. A great way to celebrate the birthday of this cult film.
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