After much hemming and hawing and a little bit of teases about his appearance, Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy has been confirmed for Sony’s “28 Years Later” horror thriller.

Sony chief Tom Rothman revealed the news in a new interview with Deadline. “Yes [Murphy will return], but in a surprising way and in a way that grows, let me put it that way,” Rothman said.

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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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Two decades after British filmmaker Danny Boyle resurrected the then-ailing zombie genre with his post-apocalyptic rage-virus movie (technically, not zombies, but close enough), the long-belated sequel to “28 Days Later” is finally taking shape. Titled “28 Years Later,” and reuniting Boyle with his original screenwriter Alex Garland, late yesterday, the main cast was revealed.

Deadline reports that Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Bullet Train”), and Ralph Fiennes (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) have all joined the cast.

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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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Movie studios are on notice after a federal judge ruled against Universal Pictures in a false advertising lawsuit over the trailer for Danny Boyle‘s 2019 film “Yesterday.” Variety reports that U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson ruled in favor of two Ana de Armas fans who filed the lawsuit in January. Their stance? They rented “Yesterday” after seeing de Armas in the trailer, only to discover all of her scenes were cut from the final film.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire“) is maybe one of the more recognizable and varied veteran directors working today from Britain. Dipping his toes in both thought-provoking dramas and well-crafted genre pictures as he tackles a multitude of subject matter. Boyle over the years has put together a very impressive body of work that saw his career launched into the big time when the tongue-in-cheek Scottish-set junkie odyssey “Trainspotting” made both Boyle and actor Ewan McGregor stars on the international stage.

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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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Fresh off of “Pistol,” his FX mini-series about The Sex Pistols, Danny Boyle has his next project lined up. And it’s the last thing anyone expects from the man behind “Trainspotting,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” and “Yesterday“…

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Variety reports that Boyle’s next project will be a stage dance adaptation of “The Matrix,” The Wachowski‘s 1999 sci-fi blockbuster.

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Danny Boyle is back with his first project since 2019’s “Yesterday” with a miniseries about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols. And while some people are excited about the show, one of them isn’t ex-Pistols frontman Jon Lydon. In fact, Lydon wants nothing to do with the show, but that doesn’t appear to both Boyle or the cast of the series.

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Last year, while the show was in production, The Sunday Times ran an interview with Lydon who, after having seen publicity stills from the show, called it the”most disrespectful shit I’ve ever had to endure.” Afterward, Lydon attempted to keep the series from completion, but he lost a court battle to his old bandmates Steve Jones and Paul Cook, who are more than happy to see their story onscreen.

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You can’t manufacture an anarchic spirit. That’s what drags down “Pistol,” the bio-series from Danny Boyle that premieres in its six-episode entirety on FX on Hulu on May 31st. It has all the pretense of something as dangerous and form-breaking as the music of The Sex Pistols, but too little of the actual energy that the band thrust into the U.K. and beyond in the 1970s.

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Daniel Craig‘s era of James Bond is over and while “No Time To Die” certainly entertained folks, there are still questions about what director Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting“) would have done with the final outing. Boyle was originally hired to direct and developed the script with screenwriter John Hodge, however, the two eventually left the Bond pic over “creative differences” with franchise producers and Boyle ended up making “Yesterday” instead.

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46 years ago, a then historic heatwave gripped Europe. Out of the dying embers, 2 of the most incendiary moments in popular music history took place; the Bill Grundy interview of 1976, in which English punk rock outfit Sex Pistols executed a nihilistic verbal barrage aimed in the general direction of a drab post-war society in the grip of rising unemployment, was greeted by the tweed-clad public with shock and disdain. Their May 1977 single ‘God Save the Queen’ was greeted with almost existential dread.

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Following the box office success of “Straight Outta Compton” and the Oscar victories and nominations of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Hollywood’s appetite for the rock biopic has suddenly enormously grown. In the wake of that movie, we received an Elton John biopic, an Aretha Franklin movie, a Motley Crue flick, with many more are in development, including Bob Marley and more.

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Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” was based on the provocative novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh, which chronicled a group of young Scots navigating heroin addiction and paying for it any way they can. A direct sequel, “T2: Trainspotting,” was released in 2017, which Boyle again directed, an adaptation of Welsh’s novel “Porno.”

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Back in January, fans of Danny Boyle were given the news the filmmaker was going to begin work on a new FX series based on the career of the influential punk rock band, The Sex Pistols. The series, titled “Pistol,” is based on the memoir of a member of the band and tells the story of the beginnings of punk rock and the destructive tendencies of the controversial band.

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Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle‘s “Yesterday,” a sci-fi romantic comedy about a world where no one remembers The Beatles, was a hit when it came out in theaters last year, but many critics noted that the film never lived up to its initial concept. It turns out the original script that became “Yesterday” was a darker and much better film, that is until Curtis came along, changed it and then took all the credit for the story.

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It appears that Danny Boyle is ready to venture back into the world of big-budget filmmaking, after dropping out of James Bond and tackling the feel-good, “Yesterday.” And he’s joining Michael B. Jordan to help tell the tale.

According to Variety, Boyle is set to direct “Methuselah” for Warner Bros, with Michael B. Jordan set to star.

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While we wait for the world to calm down so James Wan can start production on his new take on the classic Universal Monster, “Frankenstein“, we can at least take solace in knowing that we don’t have to wait that long to see at least one adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s classic tale. In 2011, Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (“28 Days Later”) directed a stage adaptation starring both Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein and his Creature, and now the whole thing will stream on YouTube for free!

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The unfortunate side effect of a filmmaker leaving a production before filming commences is that the artist’s specific ideas and vision will never see the light of day. No matter how many times we try to imagine what kind of film Danny Boyle would have made if he stuck around to film his ‘Bond’ movie, we’ll never get to see it. And according to at least one person who worked on the production, Boyle had some truly intriguing, perhaps wild ideas.

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Growing up, The Beatles were largely influential in “Yesterday” director Danny Boyle‘s life, and while it was really the explosion of punk music that helped shaped him as a person, the music of The Beatles spoke to his British sensibilities. The filmmaker has a knack for subtly highlighting and exploring British culture and trends and whether intentional or not, it certainly gives Boyle an authentic ground level voice.

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