Now formally lower than six months away from launch, the advertising and marketing marketing campaign for 28 Years Later has begun, which has included stars and crew members talking out about their roles within the movie. One artistic who has been significantly vocal is scribe Alex Garland, who additionally penned the script for the unique 28 Days Later starring Cillian Murphy. Nevertheless, Garland nor director Danny Boyle had been on the artistic workforce for the Jeremy Renner-led sequel, 28 Weeks Later, though they did function producers on the movie. Throughout the newest Empire print subject, Garland and producer Andrew Macdonald addressed whether or not the ending of 28 Weeks Later, which sees the contaminated operating via Paris to show that the virus has unfold exterior the UK, performs into 28 Years Later, and he wasted no time shutting that concept down:

Alex Garland: Covid was not in my thoughts as a result of it was too current and too current, however Brexit was. [Especially how the rest of the world began to view the UK.] A way of the globe simply kind of shifting its place. Turning their backs, not likely trying on this course. Probably not giving a shit [about the UK].

Andrew Macdonald: Nothing is allowed into Britain and nothing is allowed out. Britain has paused.

Garland: [28 Years Later] isn’t in battle with [28 Weeks Later, but] “canon” [is] not a really Danny Boyle phrase.

Macdonald: It’s not mapped out like a scientific method.

The unique 28 Days Later is likely one of the most acclaimed horror motion pictures of all-time, and the movie has change into a cult basic within the 22 years since its launch. It earned scores of 87% from critics and 85% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, each of that are greater than the sequel’s 72% rating from critics and 66% ranking from audiences on the combination website. One of many extra intriguing components of the 28 Days Later franchise is the virus being largely contained to the UK, with different components of the world being comparatively unaffected, which is why the ending of 28 Weeks Later was so controversial. Thankfully for followers who weren’t sizzling on 28 Weeks Later, it seems like Boyle and Garland have gone again to their very own concepts and largely disregarded the concept the virus was spreading exterior the UK.

Is Cillian Murphy in ‘28 Years Later’?

Whereas it was initially reported that Cillian Murphy would reprise his function as Jim in 28 Years Later, a current interview poured chilly water all around the prospect of Murphy’s return to arguably his most iconic function. It was revealed a number of weeks in the past that Murphy wouldn’t seem in 28 Years Later, however that it was attainable for him to look in a future movie within the trilogy. The subsequent probability for Murphy’s Jim to point out up will are available Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which can launch on January 16, 2026.

28 Years Later hits theaters on June 20 later this 12 months. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates and protection of the movie and purchase or hire 28 Days Later on Prime Video.

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