Sometimes, a film project comes together really quickly. That seems to be the case with the forthcoming “28 Years Later.” Prior to a few months ago, the film was more theoretical. Wouldn’t it be cool if it happened? Now, not only is it happening, but it’s the start of a new trilogy, we have two major directors attached, and the cast is really incredible, thus far. Now, “28 Years Later” might be one of our most anticipated films.

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Is Nia DaCosta headed back to the horror genre? Deadline reports that the “Candyman” director is in talks with Sony Pictures to direct the second film in the upcoming “28 Years Later” trilogy. If DaCosta does signs on, she’ll shoot her installment immediately after Danny Boyle wraps the first one later this year.  

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And that means Sony, Boyle, and writer Alex Garland are working fast to make this new trilogy a reality.

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Belated legacy sequels are still all the rage in Hollywood, and joining the ranks of this trend is “28 Years Later,” the long-overdue sequel to director Danny Boyle’s zombie/rage-virus thriller, “28 Days Later,” and its sequel “28 Weeks Later.”

While Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, who are reuniting for the first time in almost two decades, have teased a third film in the rage virus trilogy, one never materialized until just a few weeks ago when the surprise sequel was announced.

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Thanks to “Oppenheimer,” all of Hollywood wants a piece of Cillian Murphy. So is it any surprise that Sony shelled out a ton for the latest in the “28 Days Later” franchise? THR reports that the studio won the bidding war for a new sequel in the zombie franchise, which comes with an additional sequel if all goes well. As of right now, however, Murphy is only on board officially as an executive producer.

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Twenty-two years after the original film and 17 years after the sequel, a belated third film in the “28 Days Later” virus rage franchise is finally being made. Even better, original director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland are reuniting for the project, their first collaboration in over 15 years. Fans who love the series could even rejoice more; this new plan could launch a new trilogy of films.

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Back in 2019, we started to hear rumblings from Danny Boyle that he was interested in directing a new film in the “28 Days Later” franchise. He kept saying that it was all in the hands of writer Alex Garland, whether or not it happened. Then the pandemic hit and the sequel discussion seemed to have disappeared a bit. However, in a new Inverse profile of the original “28 Days Later,” both Garland and Boyle have expressed renewed interest in a proper sequel to their film, tentatively titled “28 Years Later.” 

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Released back in 2002, “28 Days Later,” directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, was a big hit and reignited fan interest in the zombie horror genre.

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When people think of the modern revival of zombie horror films, there are some who trace it back to Zack Snyder’s “Dawn of the Dead” remake in 2004. However, you really need to go back a couple of more years to Danny Boyle’s groundbreaking horror film, “28 Days Later.” That film is so beloved, even 20 years later, that folk are still clamoring for a new sequel.

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When it comes to contemporary sci-fi, Alex Garland sits at the top level of Hollywood creators. Whether penning original ideas about humanity’s undoing or adapting bestselling books to his own specifications, Garland has had a hand in several of the most intriguing sci-fi and horror films of the past 20 years. Lately, he’s stunned critics with directorial efforts like “Annihilation” (2018) and “Ex Machina” (2015) lately.

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Danny Boyle’s Beatles musical/romantic comedy “Yesterday,” an exuberant movie about preserving joy in the world through lost music (read our review) is in theaters now. Boyle is doing the press round for the film, and after a vibrant and eclectic career spanning three decades, questions are naturally coming up about some of his classic movies and the mooted sequels to some that haven’t yet occurred. One is the raw and visceral contagion outbreak movie “28 Days Later,” which people forget revitalized the then-dead-under-ground zombie genre at the time.

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Film fans are an excitable bunch. So, it’s not surprising when they get all worked up over the idea of a new sequel to a beloved film when a director teases it’s arrival. But sometimes, the filmmaker in question is a bit too excited and makes things appear a bit more concrete than they actually are. That seems to be the case with Danny Boyle and the proposed threequel to “28 Days Later.”

Recently, Boyle spoke about the idea that he and writer Alex Garland had fleshed out an idea for a third film in the zombie horror franchise.

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Back in 2002, filmmaker Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland teamed up for a film that would seemingly play a large part in reviving the zombie horror genre, “28 Days Later.” The film is not only a critical success but also was a pretty big hit at the box office, earning enough to quickly pump out a sequel, “28 Weeks Later.” However, that sequel didn’t share any of the cast and crew of the original and wasn’t received as well as the first film.

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By the pricking of my thumbs, a holiday-themed list feature this way comes. Yep, All Hallow’s Eve is almost upon us, and while the temptation to do some kind of “Before I Go To Sleep“-themed feature was a great one, we thought we should put together something appropriately spooky to get you in the mood for tomorrow night’s festivities.

So, during a break from making our costumes for the annual Playlist Halloween party (popular choices this year: the Babadook, Kevin Feige, Alexander from “Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” box-office receipts for “Sin City 2,” a GamerGater), we’ve been considering the state of recent horror.

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Danny Boyle’s on-again, off-again flirtation with directing this third film (an unknown title that Boyle hasn’t revealed), is apparently back on again.

In 2008, our last update, he said, “I mean, it’s absolutely not written yet, but there’s a prospect of an idea and the way these ideas start is you just suddenly get a little glimpse.”

In 2007, Boyle told MTV that yes, he really thought directing the film would be a possibility.

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If sequels were the name of the game in 2002, things didn’t change much in ’03, as franchises began to curdle over with disappointing new installments like “The Matrix Reloaded,” “The Matrix Revolutions,” and “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” proving to many that the allure and mystique of a series could easily be destroyed with unnecessary installments. Other warmed-over chum-like sequel continuations in that vein were “2 Fast 2 Furious,” “Freddy vs.

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Apparently Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Alvarez has taken Hollywood by storm this week thanks to his almost five minute short film, “Panic Attack!” (“Ataque de Pánico!”) that has drawn some comparisons to Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” because of its lo-fi, shaky-cam, documentarian depiction of a random and terrifying robot invasion (very “Iron Giant”) on Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.

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Well, according to the U.K.’s News of the World he’s Danny Boyle’s top choice, but they have nothing to back that up and they’re essentially one of those bad U.K. tabloid.

Ryan Gosling has been reported — by credible trade sources — as one of Boyle’s top choices, but we report this mostly because, what if?

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The first sign of trouble was an ill-conceived romantic comedy called, “A Life Less Ordinary” in 1997, followed up by 2000’s “The Beach.” It’s kind of amazing how much of a reverse thrust those two back-to-back, “failures” hit on Boyle’s forward momentum.

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Today it was announced that Keira Knightley will star in the futuristic thriller written by “28 Days Later”’s Alex Garland, who last wrote the severely underrated metaphysical space freak-out movie “Sunshine.” (Maybe, since “Sunshine’s director Danny Boyle is all the rage after his Oscar win, the film will find a new audience?

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Boyle is super coy about the details. “It don’t think it will be called ‘28 Months Later,’ that’s all I can say,” he told MTV. In fact he says the idea is still not even fully born. “I mean, it’s absolutely not written yet, but there’s a prospect of an idea and the way these ideas start is you just suddenly get a little glimpse.”

So talk sounds premature, but our guess to the name change?

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In 2007, Boyle told MTV that yes, he really thought directing the film would be a possibility. Then he said the same in September of this year. Then in October, it looked like Boyle would again hand over the reigns to another director like his did with, “28 Weeks Later,” and just deliver the idea and executive-produce again.

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But now comes word from Joblo, that much like “28 Weeks Later,” Boyle might just executive produce and hand off the reigns to another director (‘Weeks’ was capably handled by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo).

In an overhead conversation, Arrow In the Head (JoBlo’s gore sister-site) said that the director Paul Andrew Williams (“The Cottage”) came up.

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We were worried there for a second because ‘Slumdog’ was almost lost in the shuffle when Warner Independent Pictures was shuttered in the spring and it looked like the picture might get thrown into film purgatory, but it’s premiere was announced for the Toronto Film Festival and then was shared by Warner (who absorbed WIP) and Fox Searchlight (who released Boyle’s excellent, but grossly underrated psychological sci-fi drama “Sunshine.”)

“I am grateful to Warner for their careful handling of the film,” Boyle said in a press release.

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We loved the tense, paranoiac Kubrickian sci-fi mindbender; it was a viscerally poignant cinematic experience. We haven’t seen it since it screened in July of 2007, but that supernova of filmmaking blew us away and it still resonates.

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