Days for weeks to years – why have we never had a “28 months later”?

In 2002, Danny Boyle And Alex Garland met as a director and writer to create 28 days laterNow considered one of the best horror films of the 21st century. The obsessive film, which takes place following an apocalypse similar to a zombie in London, has become an involuntary message on September 11 and became even more poignant after the cocovid pandemic. He was also the big role of breakthrough for his star, Cillian Murphy.

With its success, it is not surprising that there is a sequel, the property entitled 28 weeks laterIn 2007. This film had a writer, a director and a different casting, but despite an intense opening scene, she did not hit like this first film. Now, after almost two decades, Boyle and Garland are back for this year 28 years laterwith Aaron Taylor-Johnson,, Jodie ComerAnd Ralph Fiennes. There is only one problem. Where devil is 28 months later?

’28 weeks later ‘was a fun but disappointing sequence

In 2002, Danny Boyle was already a big name thanks to the popularity of Trainpotting And Beach (The latter based on a novel by Alex Garland). 28 days later It would be the first feature film scenario of GarlandAnd together, the two made a “zombie” film which redefined the genre, giving us the film then rare which made its creatures work instead of Shagble because they are humans infected by the rabies virus. It made the monsters much more terrifying. It was also a very human film, full of characters who really cared for us, which led to a global box office of $ 84 million with a budget of $ 8 million. Critics loved him as much as the public, with Roger Ebert Write that 28 days later was “a hard, intelligent and ingenious film”.

2007 28 weeks later The script has four writer’s credits (which is rarely a good sign), and was made by Juan Carlos Fresnadillowhich had only made another film six years ago. Without the trio of the first film that returns, 28 weeks later Has only $ 65 million worldwide. It was by no means a bad film, but even if it was filled with names then sheltered from Big as Jeremy Renner,, Byrne pinkAnd Idris Elba,, It appeared more as an action film with many victims in place of characterization.

Alex Garland did not want to write a “28 months later”

Always, 28 weeks later was far from a disaster. It is an amusing horror thriller, although forgettable, which still had a sufficiently interesting premise while the US military tries to help reopen some of London with disastrous results. There was enough there so that the public would like to see what was going on in what would certainly be a 28 months laterBut it has never become a reality.

28 months later was originally supposed to arrive. However, in 2010, Alex Garland told PirePreviews that the rights were frozen, which held a third film. In 2015, Garland spoke to IGN of the potential project, saying:

“We just started talking about it seriously. We have an idea. Danny [Boyle] And [producer] Andrew [Macdonald] And I had fairly serious conversations on this subject, so it is a possibility. It’s complicated. There are a lot of reasons why it is complicated, which is boring, so I will not enter, but there is a possibility. “”

Garland also revealed that The film would probably be called 28 months later and not 28 years laterBecause there would be only one place to go after the latter and “28 decades later is probably taken the piss. “It was 10 years ago, when it happened?

Last year, Garland said that he had resisted writing 28 years later “because There were things on 28 weeks who disturbed me. I just thought about it: “Fucking that. I prefer to try to write a different story in a different world.” He explained that an idea finally came to him a few years ago that Boyle really liked, as 28 years later was born.

’28 years later ”, fans are again very interested

Say that fans are excited this year 28 years later is an understatement. The first trailer, with this frightening repetitive song, was a record, becoming the most viewed horror trailer of the year and the second largest ever, behind He chapter two. Not only are Boyle and Garland back together (the latter having become a very successful director too), but the distribution of the stars is shown in what seems to be a new fascinating story with survivors on a small island and a new mutation of infected. It is certainly much more intriguing than a simple film of shooting, where the bloodshed is considered the same thing as the suspense and the fears.

The interest in the franchise is at a record level. Shortly after the film was announced would have been acquired by Sony Pictures, it was revealed that Boyle and Garland had planned a whole trilogy. Quick advance to now, and Nia Dacosta has already filmed the next film, 28 years later Part II: the bone templeWhich will bring Cillain Murphy, now an A-Lister and Oscar, winner, in the lap. We can’t wait to see what’s going on, but Hopefully Danny Boyle and Alex Garland resist the temptation to come back in several years with 28 decades later. A zombie apocalypse in the year 2400 is not what this franchise should never be. These are the characters who will always come first, not the gadget.