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Gizmodo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Daryl Dixon' Lives to Ride Again in Season 3's New Trailer
AMC's The Walking Dead Universe continues to delve into the decayed wasteland of the zombie apocalypse through the eyes of its bike-riding icon in Daryl Dixon. Returning Walking Dead vet Norman Reedus reprises the titular role alongside Melissa McBride as Carol; the fan-favorite duo continues their trek through the European walker landscape. The cast and creative team were on hand at San Diego Comic-Con to preview season 3 of the show. Here's the trailer that convention goers got to witness during the panel, which brings the series on a cross-Europe trip: after heading to France last season, now Daryl and Carol find themselves venturing from England to Spain. Turns out, everywhere they go in the zombie apocalypse, things still suck for humanity wherever they still live, as the duo find plenty to fight against when it comes to the survivors they find there. Cómo se dice 'We are the Walking Dead' en español? As well as introducing Stephen Merchant as 'the last Englishman in England,' who helps Carol and Daryl get to Spain, Daryl Dixon season 3 also stars Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Alexandra Masangkay, Candela Saitta, Hugo Arbués, and more. That wasn't the only news out of the panel, however. It was also confirmed that AMC has renewed the show for a fourth and final season. The season, which will run for eight episodes, is set to enter production in Spain later this month. 'Daryl Dixon has been an incredible journey,' star Norman Reedus said in a statement provided to press. 'I thank each and every fan who has joined us on this ride. It's been a privilege to build this story for these characters, and we have so much gratitude for how it's been embraced. Your love and support have made every moment worth it. This finale isn't just an ending; it's a celebration of what we've all shared together. Keep carrying that love forward—Daryl's journey is far from over.' AMC's Daryl Dixon returns September 7. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
National Post
24-07-2025
- National Post
Christopher Dummitt: The drug-addict zombies are coming for your neighbourhood
PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — I've come to think that we Canadians are so polite that even though we now find ourselves living inside a real-life zombie movie, many seem afraid to raise a fuss for fear of offending the zombies. Article content 'Sorry, sir, but I think you're gnawing on my arm.' Article content In our case, the zombie apocalypse is the epidemic of drug addiction that fills our streets with addicts. Contemplating their next fix — or in the temporary delirium granted by the last one — they shuffle in front of our cars, defecate on our sidewalks, and break into our cars and houses. Article content Article content We all have our stories of zombie run-ins. Article content Article content Last week, while visiting my local ER, I met someone I'll call 'Dwight.' I was there to help my child. Dwight was there to get access to drugs. Article content I shouldn't have known Dwight's name — I certainly didn't know the name of any other patient in the small curtained off 'rooms' where we found ourselves. But Dwight was hard to miss. Loud rock music was blaring from his room. It's not normal in an ER but apparently Dwight needed to be calmed down and he had an iPad and this is all the nurses had to work with. Article content It wasn't enough. Soon Dwight was demanding drugs. Like RIGHT NOW. The nurses couldn't help. He'd just been given drugs. Article content That's when he began to smash things. Article content When he smashed the computer next to his bed, the security guards came. But they didn't approach Dwight. As the nurse kept telling him, security was just there to keep everyone else safe. Article content 'Please sit back down Dwight. Go back to your bed Dwight.' Article content Dwight didn't go back to bed. The shouting got worse. So did the swearing and then, randomly, the accusations of racism against the non-white security guards who had just shown up. It wasn't until the police came and restrained Dwight to the gurney that things began to settle down. Though not until they had sedated him. Article content Article content In the meantime, my own child, who was in immense pain, didn't get attention. The nurses and doctors couldn't get near us. Article content Article content But don't worry, Dwight was OK. Article content Over the past year I've almost killed addicts several times. Not that I wanted to. But when you're driving along the street and they randomly walk out in front of your car, it's a little tricky not to become an accidental killer. Article content Recent trips to the library have included such highlights as watching one man defecate beside our car even as, a few feet away, a group of people huddled in a group and injected drugs. Then there was the time I entered the library only to find a couple spreading out their things in the library foyer, including drug paraphernalia and large bottles of booze. Article content If you went by what it is mostly used for, you might think the library toilet in the basement — right next to the children's section — is meant to be a homeless person's French-shower location and possibly a place to shoot up (if the sounds in the stalls are anything to go by). Article content There's nothing like a little drug addiction to go with your Harry Potter. Article content Perhaps the most egregious case is the fate of the Silver Bean café, a charming little gem of a spot housed in a water-side building that was a local millennium project. It's advertised as everyone's 'cottage in the city' and it is genuinely a magical place. Of course, it's also very much a cottage in the city for the region's drug addicts. Article content Do you have to go to the washroom after your latte? You might think you'd go to the purpose-built public toilets only a few feet away from the café. But you'd be wrong, or just stupid. The entrance to the washrooms is a garbage dump continuously occupied by hordes of men and women who are only partly aware of what is happening in the world and who think 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday is a perfectly good time to enjoy a bit of beer and meth, thank you very much. Article content Article content Instead, the café, which is tiny and has almost no inside space, allows customers to go around back and through its kitchen into a tiny washroom. At least the zombies at the public toilet aren't disturbed. Article content There are more stories — everyone has them. There was the woman who I saw last winter stumbling through downtown without any pants on. Or underwear either. Article content Then there are the women who linger on street corners on the edge of downtown, bedraggled, drug-skinny, and haggard. If only you'll meet their eye as you drive by, they can offer you some sexual services. Article content Peterborough isn't unique. My zombie apocalypse is probably your zombie apocalypse, too. Article content All of this has happened while the so-called 'harm reduction' programs have expanded. And even though the 'housing first' advocates did build a new community of tiny homes for the homeless just a couple of years ago, somehow, for some inexplicable reason, the problem has only gotten worse. Article content I won't pretend to have any elaborate plan or solution. This seems to me to be one of those things that social scientists call a 'wicked problem.' Article content
RNZ News
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Review : 28 Years Later
28 Years Later sees the return of director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland to the zombie apocalypse they created 23 years ago. Now survivors settle on a small island, leaving the mainland to the rapidly mutating infected. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and newcomer Alfie Williams as the 12-year-old hero Spike.
BBC News
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Danny Boyle raves about Cheddar Gorge on 28 Years Later shoot
Danny Boyle has described Cheddar Gorge as "extraordinary" after filming parts of his zombie apocalpyse flick 28 Years Later director added that he felt "privileged" to be shooting in Somerset for the film, which was released on Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who lives near Bruton in Somerset, stars alongside Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Alfie Williams in the film, which is set 28 years after the accidental release of a virus that caused the breakdown of Boyle said the gorge was "one of the most unique pieces of British landscape". Nick Sheldon, operations manager overseeing the filming at Cheddar Gorge, said: "It's a spectacular location for this film... it was a real privilege to work with Danny on this movie."They turned Cheddar Gorge into a real zombie apocalypse for a few days."I was lucky enough to go to the premiere this week where I got to sit next to Zombie number three. "We were used for the last 10 minutes of the film so the climax is all based in Somerset." Mr Taylor-Johnson said the film has "got a feel that's like no other movie", thanks to the experimental way it was of the film was shot using iPhones, which Mr Taylor-Johnson said "felt initimate".The film is the third instalment of the 28 Days Later series. In the second film, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 2007 film 28 Weeks Later, the "rage virus" is seen reaching Europe. Mr Boyle's film sees the infected pushed back and re-confined to British shores. As the rest of the world heals, Britain's remaining survivors have been left to fend for themselves.
Telegraph
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
28 Years Later, review: A terrifying vision of Britain turning in on itself
Few places in Britain scream zombie apocalypse less than the Northumbrian coast, which makes it the perfect setting for Danny Boyle 's new film. This transfixingly nasty, shrewdly postponed sequel to 2002's 28 Days Later finds a knot of survivors ensconced on the island of Lindisfarne where the otherwise endemic Rage virus has yet to reach. The menfolk work with their hands, the children sing hymns at school, and in the evenings, bitter is swilled by the tankard, while an accordion leads the revellers in roaring song. This little heaven built in hell's despair is separated from the ghoul-infested mainland by a gated tidal causeway which only the untainted few are permitted to cross. You might say its inhabitants have taken back control – but then so has virus-free Europe, which has the entire UK under a militarily enforced lockdown of the damned. The original 28 Days Later – written, like this one, with a beady sociological eye by Alex Garland – noted the civil unrest that had started to fester as the optimism of the early Blair years began to fade. This follow-up doesn't re-take the temperature of British society one generation on so much as vivisect its twitching remains. Call it Disemb-owell and Pressburger: an unholy hybrid of A Canterbury Tale and Cannibal Holocaust which Boyle was perhaps uniquely placed to pull off, and which stands as his finest film since 2008's Slumdog Millionaire. It isn't 'about' Brexit or Covid or anything else so crudely specific: rather, it's a phantasmagorical vision of a deeply familiar, vulnerable, beautiful nation that has become intent on simultaneously turning in on and against itself. Its plot centres on a 12-year-old lad called Spike (Alfie Williams, a real find) who illicitly leaves his island haven to search the mainland for a much-whispered-about doctor (Ralph Fiennes) who might be able to help his mother Isla (Jodie Comer) overcome an unknown disease. Spike's father Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is a seasoned stalker of the infected, among whom muscular 'alphas' have begun to emerge. (Presumably because fabric rips and rots, one point of difference with the first film and its now canonically sidelined original successor, 2007's 28 Weeks Later, is that the zombies here are obviously nude; sometimes pendulously so.) Early on in the film, Taylor-Johnson is hungry to induct his son into the hunting rite, and their first joint expedition proves as heart-in-throat for the audience as it does arrow-in-throat for most of their targets. The precise moments of impact are captured by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle with a sickening, time-freezing jerk, as if the camera operator from The Matrix has just had his neck snapped. Mantle shot much of the film on (augmented) iPhone cameras, which give the regularly outrageous action a terrifyingly ordinary texture like Facebook photos from a walking holiday in Alnmouth. Garland employs a strain of peculiarly British pulp humour – very 2000 AD, very Warhammer 40,000 – to undercut the ambient dread. And flashes of Arthurian fantasias and wartime newsreel footage (as well as a pointed double cameo for the now-felled Sycamore Gap tree) serve as regular nudges in the ribs as he and Boyle toy with the notion of a 21st century British national myth. Perhaps more than any of the above, though, it's Fiennes's gently patrician, RP-accented doctor – whose bedside manner is impeccable even when stripped to the waist and slathered in iodine – which gives 28 Years Later its lingering, Kiplingian ache. A brief prologue and epilogue suggest that next January's sequel, titled The Bone Temple and directed by The Marvels' Nia DaCosta, will stir Scottish Presbyterianism into the mix. What British end of the world worth its salt would be without it? 15 cert, 115 mins. In cinemas from June 20
