We now know a little more about 28 Years Later and his trilogy

Obviously, we all know how much time has passed between them the worlds of 28 days later and 28 years later. And if you don’t know, we’ll give you a second to think. yes That’s 28 years. And while that’s relatively obvious, a new interview with the director and writer of the upcoming zombie flick talks about how the passage of time is crucial to setting up everything to come.

28 years later comes out on June 20th and it’s the third movie in a series originally created by writer Alex Garland (who went on to do Civil War, Ex Machina, and more) and director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire). After stepping back for 28 weeks later, the pair reunited for the first film in a proposed trilogy that begins with the zombie outbreak three decades after the beginning. “It was a completely different approach,” Boyle said in a new interview with Empire. “It was about what those 28 years get you.”

What 28 years gives you is stability. c 28 years laterthe world has come to terms with the zombies. They have learned to live with them and have made them a part of their lives. The film shows this through the eyes of a small island that has isolated itself from the rest of the country. “It’s a closed and by necessity very tight-knit community,” Boyle said. “Obviously there are very strict defense laws in place to survive for so long in what is effectively a continuously hostile environment. They have created a successful community as they see it.”

The community, called Holy Island, is only accessible from the mainland by a small causeway that only appears for a few hours a day when the tide goes out. So they are relatively safe. But the film goes beyond that, following a father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his wife (Jodie Comer) who take their 12-year-old son (Alfie Williams) on a journey to show him the truths of the world. Things don’t go according to plan.

This story will then continue in a second film, 28 Years Later: Temple of Bonesdirected by Nia DaCosta. It has already been filmed and the release date is set for January 16, 2026, which means audiences will you only have to wait about 28 weeks to see what happens next 28 years later. As for the third film, however, Boyle will direct, but only if audiences respond to the first. “It’s very narratively ambitious,” Garland told Empire. “Danny and I figured it out. We tried to condense it, but its natural form felt like a trilogy.

As for the star of the original film and executive producer of this trilogy, Cillian Murphy, he will not appear in the first film. But that doesn’t mean he won’t show up at all. “He’s not in the first movie, but hopefully there’ll be Jim somewhere down the line,” producer Andrew MacDonald told the Empire. The answer points to long-standing rumors that he would appear in DaCosta’s film.

Together, Boyle and Garland make a great team. Neither of the two there was to return to the franchise they helped create. That they wanted and want to make it this big gives us a lot of confidence that we’ll see something special in a few months. It all starts on June 20.

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