“A few years ago an idea materialized in my head for what would be really 28 Years Later,” Garland says, suggesting the next movie will skip the obvious “28 Months Later” naming convention and jump into the future. “Danny always liked the idea.”
In the two decades since 28 Days Later, Garland has also become a respected director in his own right. So who will direct this sequel? Danny Boyle has some ideas.
“So we’re talking about it quite seriously, quite diligently,” Boyle says. “If he doesn’t want to direct it himself I’ll be well up for it if we can execute a similarly good idea.”
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“I resisted [making a sequel] for a long time because there were things about 28 Weeks that bugged me,” Garland says. “I just thought, ‘F*ck that. I’d rather try to write a different story in a different world.’”
But clearly, something changed. Maybe enough time has passed. Or maybe the decision to skip “28 Months Later” and jump straight to “28 Years” offers the opportunity to ignore the bad parts of 28 Weeks. Either way, we’re definitely not complaining — assuming all this talk actually leads to something, of course.
All sounds promising, although I hope they don’t plan on releasing it in 2030, which would be 28 years after the first film.
I’m not really sure either of them have and it’ll be a slower, more meditative take on people trying to rebuild after an apocalypse.
I think we’d need to look elsewhere if we want a fast-paced, visceral post-apocalyptic zombie movie. The Sadness or the Crossed film that disappeared off the radar.
A Crossed movie!
You’ve made me just realise that this is something I’d kill to see.
Yeah, it was announced in 2010 and they got the rights back in 2012, then… silence.
I suspect the issue is balancing the budget and the certification. That said, a lot more R-rated films have been well recently so it could open the door. Also The Sadness has been well-received and I imagine someone has floated the idea of an English-language remake when the comics are just waiting to be adapted.