INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Danny Boyle directs the third film in the post-apocalyptic franchise, 28 Years Later.
The critically acclaimed 2002 film
much a direct sequel but the start of a new planned trilogy.(Some spoilers for 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later below.)In 28 Days Later, a
highly contagious "Rage Virus" is accidentally released from a lab in Cambridge, England
scratches, or even just by getting a drop of infected blood in one's mouth, the virus spreads rapidly, effectively collapsing society
A bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma 28 days later to find London mostly deserted, apart from a handful of
survivors fleeing the infected hordes, and joins them in the pursuit of safety
Jim (barely) survives, and we see zombies dying of starvation in the streets during the denouement.The sequel, 28 Weeks Later, featured a
new cast of characters living on the outskirts of London
With the help of NATO soldiers, Britain has begun rebuilding, taking in refugees and moving them to safe-zone districts
But all it takes is one careless person getting infected and raging out for the virus to spread uncontrollably yet again
So naturally, that's what happens
The survivors eventually flee to France, only for the rage virus to spread there, too.As early as 2007, Boyle had plans for a third film,
set 28 months after the original outbreak, but it ended up in development hell
When the film finally got the green light in January 2024, the title had changed to 28 Years Later, given how much time had passed
Alex Garland returns as screenwriter and also wrote the two sequels for this new trilogy.
Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son
Spike (Alfie Williams) are on a mission to the mainland.
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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 aim at an encroaching threat.
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Jamie
takes aim at an encroaching threat.
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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 aim at an
encroaching threat.
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Here be zombies.
Isla (Jodie Comer)
fleeing zombies with her newborn baby.
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Isla (Jodie Comer)
fleeing zombies with her newborn baby.
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Isla (Jodie Comer) fleeing zombies with
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.Jodie Comer plays Isla, who lives 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 living as a scavenger
The cast also includes Ralph Fiennes as Dr
Kelson, one of the survivors of the original outbreak; Jack O'Connell as cult leader Sir Jimmy Crystal; Edvin Ryding as Swedish NATO soldier
Erik Sundqvist; Erin Kellyman as Jimmy Ink; and Emma Laird in an as-yet-undisclosed role.
