28 Years Later trilogy plans confirmed and first plot details revealed

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Cillian Murphy stands successful an abandoned London successful 28 Days Later.

New crippled specifications for Sony Pictures’ 28 Years Later person been revealed. The long-awaited sequel is group to deed theaters successful nan summertime of 2025 — 22 years aft its franchise’s genitor film, 28 Days Later, was primitively released and 18 years aft that movie’s sequel, 28 Weeks Later, made its theatrical debut successful 2007. The caller movie marks a reunion betwixt 28 Days Later head Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland, and a sequel, titled 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple, has already been announced.

The Marvels head Nia DaCosta is group to helm nan sequel, which began filming successful August. While The Bone Temple‘s afloat formed has not yet been announced, it will beryllium based connected a screenplay written by Garland and Boyle. It has been antecedently reported that The Bone Temple could yet beryllium conscionable nan 2nd installment of a planned trilogy, too. Those intentions person now been reaffirmed by 1 of nan stars of 28 Years Later, who has besides shared immoderate caller penetration into nan forthcoming film’s mysterious plot.

In a caller question and reply pinch IndieWire, Conclave prima Ralph Fiennes offered an breathtaking update connected nan advancement of 28 Years Later and its sequel, confirming, “It’s 3 films, of which 2 person been shot.” The character went connected to uncover immoderate intriguing caller specifications astir nan sequel’s plot, adding, “Britain is 28 years into this unspeakable plague of infected group who are violent, rabid humans pinch a fewer pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers connected a young boy who wants to find a expert to thief his dying mother. He leads his mother done this beautiful bluish English terrain. But of course, astir them hiding successful forests and hills and woods are nan infected.”

Cillian Murphy runs distant from a flaming zombie successful 28 Days Later.

IndieWire reveals that Fiennes himself plays nan expert that 28 Years Later‘s young protagonist is searching for, whom nan character teases “is a man we mightiness deliberation is going to beryllium weird and odd, but really is simply a unit for good.” In summation to Fiennes, 28 Years Later stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding, and Cillian Murphy. Outside of nan specifications provided by Fiennes, small other is known astir nan film’s crippled and characters. Murphy is, however, expected to reprise his domiciled arsenic Jim from 28 Days Later successful some Boyle’s 28 Years Later and nan DaCosta-directed Bone Temple.

Whether aliases not Murphy will besides look successful nan purported 3rd installment of nan franchise’s sequel trilogy remains to beryllium seen. The aforesaid goes for nan project’s director, stars, and title, nary of which person been revealed yet. It is possible, successful fact, that Sony whitethorn hold to spot really 28 Years Later does earlier officially committing to a 2nd sequel to it. Either way, Fiennes’ comments corroborate that nan existent scheme is for 28 Years Later‘s communicative to encompass not conscionable 1 aliases two, but 3 full films.

Fans will person to hold to spot conscionable really ample of a domiciled Fiennes’ characteristic ends up playing successful nan still-developing trilogy’s complete, three-part story.

28 Years Later is group to deed theaters connected June 20, 2025.

Alex Welch

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