Mark your calendar for June 20, 2025 as that’s when the subsequent installment in Danny Boyle’s 28 franchise hits theaters, 28 Years Later.
Boyle returns to direct off a screenplay by Alex Garland. Boyle and Garland are additionally producing, as is authentic producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice. Bernie Bellew can be producing. Cillian Murphy can be returning as an government producer.
As Deadline reported, the pic is a sequel to 2002’s 28 Days Later and stars Jack O’Connell, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes additionally star within the pic, which is a part of a deliberate trilogy.
Sequel’s storyline is beneath wraps. The unique 28 Days Later, directed by Boyle, written by Garland and launched in 2002, centered on a bicycle courier (performed by Murphy) who wakes from a coma to find the world had been overrun with zombies following the outbreak of a virus. The pic grossed greater than $82 million on the world B.O. and led to the 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, on which Boyle and Garland served solely as EPs and minted over $65M WW.
Deadline’s Justin Kroll additionally broke the information that Sony has tapped Candyman director Nia DaCosta to direct the second a part of the trilogy, and that the plan is to shoot each movies again to again.
The one different extensive entry on June 20 subsequent yr is an untitled New Line occasion film.