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Wales Online
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
28 Years Later director Danny Boyle addresses Cillian Murphy's absence
28 Years Later director Danny Boyle addresses Cillian Murphy's absence After starring in 2002's '28 Days Later' as protagonist Jim, the future of Murphy's character was left undecided alongside fellow survivor Selena – as portrayed by Naomie Harris A still from the 28 Years Later trailer (Image: Sony Pictures ) '28 Years Later' director Danny Boyle has teased "we don't know what's happened" to Cillian Murphy's Jim by the events of the movie. After starring in 2002's '28 Days Later' as protagonist Jim, the future of Murphy's character was left undecided alongside fellow survivor Selena – as portrayed by Naomie Harris – and now Boyle, 68, has insisted the fate of Jim and Selena is still unknown by the events of the sequel '28 Years Later'. Speaking at a fan event in New York City about '28 Years Later', the filmmaker said: "So, it's independent from the first film, but it's still the same apocalypse 28 years later as it was for Cillian Murphy in the first film and Naomie Harris." Even so, the filmmaker insisted the two new protagonists in '28 Years Later', as played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, were "more than worthy stand-ins" for Murphy's Jim and Harris' Selena. He continued: "But this is 28 years later, and we don't know what's happened to them [Jim and Selena]. I'm not allowed to tell you, but these two are more than worthy stand-ins." Following '28 Days Later', the story was continued in the 2007 sequel '28 Weeks Later', which didn't feature Murphy's Jim and was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo instead of Boyle. Article continues below '28 Years Later' follows Jamie (Taylor-Johnson) and Isla (Comer) as they leave their tight-knit island community after their 12-year-old son Spike (Alfie Williams) embarks on a coming-of-age journey beyond the safety of the island, forcing the family to come face-to-face with the Rage Virus. '28 Years Later' producer Andrew Macdonald previously insisted Murphy's Jim wouldn't feature in the blockbuster, though the actor was still involved in the project as an executive producer. Macdonald told Empire: "This, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved. He is not in the first film, but I'm hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line. "He's involved at the moment as an executive producer, and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy." After '28 Years Later' – which hits screens on 20 June 2025 - Boyle and writer Alex Garland are set to return for the follow-up '28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple' in January 2026, and its sequel. Garland explained it felt like the "natural form" of '28 Years Later' was a trilogy. He said: "This is very narratively ambitious. Danny and I understood that. "We tried to condense it, but its natural form felt like a trilogy." Boyle added the '28 Years Later' films would be a "wholly different approach" to what had already been seen before in the series with '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later'. The director said: "It was about what that 28 years gives you." Ahead of '28 Years Later's theatrical release, Boyle urged fans to "support the apocalypse", as the completion of the horror trilogy hinged on the performance of the first two entries. Speaking at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, he said: "We've finished the first film, we've shot the second, however, we don't have finance for the third yet. "[Sony Pictures Chairman/CEO Tom Rothman] seems like a nice guy, but he hasn't given us the finance for the third, and that's where [exhibition] comes in. Article continues below "So please, do us proud in your cinemas on June the 20th and support the continuing apocalypse."
Perth Now
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
28 Years Later director Danny Boyle addresses Cillian Murphy's absence
'28 Years Later' director Danny Boyle has teased "we don't know what's happened" to Cillian Murphy's Jim by the events of the movie. After starring in 2002's '28 Days Later' as protagonist Jim, the future of Murphy's character was left undecided alongside fellow survivor Selena – as portrayed by Naomie Harris – and now Boyle, 68, has insisted the fate of Jim and Selena is still unknown by the events of the sequel '28 Years Later'. Speaking at a fan event in New York City about '28 Years Later', the filmmaker said: "So, it's independent from the first film, but it's still the same apocalypse 28 years later as it was for Cillian Murphy in the first film and Naomie Harris." Even so, the filmmaker insisted the two new protagonists in '28 Years Later', as played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, were "more than worthy stand-ins" for Murphy's Jim and Harris' Selena. He continued: "But this is 28 years later, and we don't know what's happened to them [Jim and Selena]. I'm not allowed to tell you, but these two are more than worthy stand-ins." Following '28 Days Later', the story was continued in the 2007 sequel '28 Weeks Later', which didn't feature Murphy's Jim and was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo instead of Boyle. '28 Years Later' follows Jamie (Taylor-Johnson) and Isla (Comer) as they leave their tight-knit island community after their 12-year-old son Spike (Alfie Williams) embarks on a coming-of-age journey beyond the safety of the island, forcing the family to come face-to-face with the Rage Virus. '28 Years Later' producer Andrew Macdonald previously insisted Murphy's Jim wouldn't feature in the blockbuster, though the actor was still involved in the project as an executive producer. Macdonald told Empire: "This, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved. He is not in the first film, but I'm hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line. "He's involved at the moment as an executive producer, and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy." After '28 Years Later' – which hits screens on 20 June 2025 - Boyle and writer Alex Garland are set to return for the follow-up '28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple' in January 2026, and its sequel. Garland explained it felt like the "natural form" of '28 Years Later' was a trilogy. He said: "This is very narratively ambitious. Danny and I understood that. 'We tried to condense it, but its natural form felt like a trilogy." Boyle added the '28 Years Later' films would be a "wholly different approach" to what had already been seen before in the series with '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later'. The director said: "It was about what that 28 years gives you." Ahead of '28 Years Later's theatrical release, Boyle urged fans to "support the apocalypse", as the completion of the horror trilogy hinged on the performance of the first two entries. Speaking at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, he said: "We've finished the first film, we've shot the second, however, we don't have finance for the third yet. "[Sony Pictures Chairman/CEO Tom Rothman] seems like a nice guy, but he hasn't given us the finance for the third, and that's where [exhibition] comes in. "So please, do us proud in your cinemas on June the 20th and support the continuing apocalypse."
Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
'28 Years Later' is Bringing New, Scarier Infected to the Party
Sony's 28 Years Later isn't just reintroducing audiences to the series' devastating post-apocalypse, it's also bringing some new horrors along for the ride. In an interview with IGN, director Danny Boyle teased the Infected have gained some new tricks since their last sighting in 28 Weeks Later. Along with the typical, fast-running ones that've been all over the marketing, some have 'mutated' to survive in this new environment. Hence, the 'Slow-lows,' so named because they 'hang about low level' and don't do running of any sort. Despite their lack of speed Boyle '[doesn't] advise messing with them.' If you've played video games with zombies, you know it's never just one variant lurking around. Along with the Slow-lows, 28 Years Later will introduce Beserker and Alpha types which are stronger than the regular Infected and might have some intelligence buried within their Rage Virus-addled minds. On a technical level, Boyle said the team generally shot the Infected 'in a brittle, almost unreliable way' similar to how they handled the first film. But the new undead get some additional flourishes, like Slow-low actors have cameras attached to them to enhance audience fear, or some sequences with specific Infected requiring 20 iPhones to simultaneously record in order to create 'a poor man's bullet time.' The new Infected also lend themselves to 28 Years' photography. For you format sickos, Boyle also told IGN the film was shot on widescreen to replicate the first movie's 'unease…the speed and the velocity, the visceral [aspect] of the way the infected were depicted. If you're on a widescreen format, they could be anywhere… you have to keep scanning, looking around for them, really.' 28 Years Later hits theaters on June 20.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The world of 28 Years Later: Star Aaron Taylor-Johnson reveals 'disconnected' community battling to survive in long-awaited sequel after humanity was pulled apart by Rage virus outbreak
The much-anticipated release of 28 Years Later is just weeks away, with fans left waiting two decades to discover the next instalment in Danny Boyle 's film series. And with the nation devastated by the Rage virus nearly three decades ago, this new film - released June 19 - will show insight into the vastly different ways humanity has adapted to survive. For one such community, this means complete isolation from the outside world, and in a new clip ahead of the film's premiere, star Aaron Taylor-Johnson shares insight into this new addition to the 28 Days Later universe for the first time. In this new land, known as The Holy Island, humans are entirely self-sufficient, and only leave the community to hunt on the mainland, when the tide is low. Aaron plays Jamie a scavenger who is tasked with training his Spike to survive in the wilderness, before they embark on a deadly mission to the mainland. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newslette r to stay in the loop. In an exclusive featurette, Aaron offers a glimpse at this new Holy Island, explaining: 'My character is part of this community that survived 20-odd years because they live on the Holy Island, disconnected from the mainland. 'They don't have doctors or medicine, can only eat what they can grow, they can go hunt, but they have to go hunt on the mainland.' 'And we have rules, if you leave the island and you don't return, there's no one going out to look for you, they're going to assume you've been infected and you're dead.' Aaron then explains that for his character's son, it's a 'rite of passage' to learn his father's hunting skills, in the hope that they can survive when they leave the island. The film is set on the real-life island of Lindisfarne, which is only accessible through a causeway during low tide. Jodie Comer also stars in the film as Jamie's wife Isla, while Ralph Fiennes plays Dr. Kelson, a survivor of the outbreak. The original film 28 Days Later starred Cillian as a bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. But despite frenzied speculation that he would be reprising his role in this sequel, when the trailer came out in December, with one character appearing to resemble a zombified form of Cillian's character Jim from the first film. In a new clip ahead of the film's premiere, Aaron shares insight into this new addition to the 28 Days Later universe for the first time However, this theory was quickly shut down when a London art dealer and model revealed he was the one playing the zombie character. Danny has since teased that viewers may get to see Cillian, 48, return after all, in one of the later films in the trilogy. Speaking during Sony's presentation at 2025 CinemaCon, the filmmaker hinted: 'Like all good things in life, you may have to wait a little while for [Cillian] to make his appearance'. 28 Years Later was filmed back-to-back with the second film, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, by director Nia DaCosta, which is being released in January 2026. Producer Andrew Macdonald previously confirmed that Cillian would not be appearing in 28 Years Later, but also suggested he could return for a future film. He told Empire: '[On] this, we wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved. He is not in the first film, but I'm hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line.' He added: 'He's involved at the moment as an executive producer, and I would hope we can work with him in some way in the future in the trilogy.' With a budget of $75million, 28 Years Later is the biggest film to be created with an iPhone and follows in the footsteps of a new Apple TV show. 28 Years Later hits UK cinemas on June 19, 2025.
Time of India
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Fans relive the zombie horror as 28 Weeks Later returns to streaming before 28 Years Later hits theaters
A new wave of rage: fans revisit 28 Weeks Later before final chapter arrives The countdown to the release of 28 Years Later has fans flocking back to revisit the bone-chilling second chapter of the franchise, 28 Weeks Later . The action-horror film, which expands the viral nightmare introduced in 28 Days Later , is heading to Hulu on June 1. Just weeks before the new installment premieres in theaters, this streaming return is sparking renewed buzz among horror fans who never forgot the impact of the Rage Virus . In communities of horror lovers online, nostalgia and excitement are surging. 'This is the most intense zombie sequel I've ever seen,' one Reddit user posted in anticipation of the re-release. 'That opening scene still haunts me.' Across social platforms, longtime fans are recounting their first viewing experiences and prepping to relive the chaos before 28 Years Later drops on June 20. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track default , selected Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Also read: Sequel of Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' announced. Here'a what we know so far about the new movie '28 Years Later' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Dukung Orang Terkasih Menghadapi Limfoma: Mulai Di Sini Limfoma Baca Undo Post-apocalyptic mayhem with a personal touch Set six months after the events of 28 Days Later , 28 Weeks Later plunges viewers back into a post-apocalyptic Britain where NATO forces have created a Safe Zone in London. The Rage Virus appears to be under control until two children sneak out of the secure area to honor their late mother, unknowingly reigniting the viral nightmare. The fragile peace collapses into bloodshed, survival, and moral chaos. While director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland stepped away for the sequel, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo took the reins with co-writer Rowan Joffé. What they delivered was a brutal, kinetic film that keeps viewers on edge with frantic handheld cinematography and visceral chase scenes. Though it lacks the quiet dread of the original, it replaces it with ferocity and scale, becoming a foundational piece in the modern zombie genre. Live Events Star-studded cast powers the sequel's momentum 28 Weeks Later may not feature Cillian Murphy, but it makes up for that absence with a stacked ensemble. Robert Carlyle leads the film with a haunting performance as a father tormented by guilt, while Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba round out the emotionally charged cast. Their grounded performances add human weight to a world consumed by fear and violence. Also read: 28 Years Later: Release date, returning cast and what to expect | Latest update The film's critical reception reflected its strengths. With a 72 per cent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and a box office haul of over $65 million on a $15 million budget, 28 Weeks Later proved to be more than a placeholder sequel. It earned accolades including the Empire Award for Best Horror and the Scream Award for Best Horror Movie. Why it still matters and where to stream it As horror audiences prepare for 28 Years Later , which promises to move the franchise decades forward, 28 Weeks Later offers vital context. It is a key link in the evolution of Rage Virus storytelling and a milestone for action horror. Its high-octane approach prefigures later hits like Train to Busan and The Last of Us . Streaming on Hulu from June 1, 28 Weeks Later joins a strong lineup of horror thrillers including Prey , Arcadian , Alien , The Damned , and The Beast Within . But for fans seeking a relentless, atmospheric, and deeply human zombie thriller, 28 Weeks Later remains one of the best zombie movies of the 2000s, a brutal reminder of how fast safety can collapse, and how quickly horror can return.
