28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, now its 28 Years Later

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/28-years-later-lands-home-sony-1235804926/

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28 Years Later, the hot package from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, has landed at Sony.

The Culver City-based studio has come out on top after a protracted bidding war to win the rights to the sequel package to the 2002 horror classic 28 Days Later.

Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have reunited to write and direct the sequel, which also comes with a Part 2, to be written by Garland. Boyle would only direct the first project, with the sequel’s director to be determined at a later stage. Cillian Murphy, whose career was launched thanks to the original movie, is also returning, as an executive producer. The Oppenheimer star could also possibly act in the project, although details are being quarantined.

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They better wait a while before they release it or it won't be 28 years

I really enjoyed the first two. Id say that 28 Days might be my favorite horror movie
Just a neat idea/concept.

Second was good

Here's to hoping they dont screw up the trilogy

we need to stop remaking EVERY movie

28 Days Later was incredible. One of the best horror movies out there with handily the most disturbing and effective line for me in all of cinema.

28 Weeks... was whatever. It was a relatively average hollywood action-horror movie. It lacked the thematic core of the original movie. It didn't understand that the original was about people, not about zombies.

Doing a third one makes me nervous. However, if it is being created by the original Director and Writer, that bodes very well and gives me hope that this won't just be a cynical Hollywood cash grab.

This will be the only horror film I'd be willing to go to theaters to see. 

28 Days Later and Cabin Fever are my favorite horror films of all time. 

Not remembering it at all, I guess I'm going to have to watch 28 days later again.

Y'all better not be wrong.

Edit. Nope, berkeley that boring zombie crap. I thought this was the movie with the ice age where everything froze over.

They decided to skip 28 months later? In general the problem I have with zombie-movie series is that nothing ever gets resolved. The zombies don't kill everyone, and the survivors never kill all the zombies....its just a dragged out dystopian world with no hope of any type of resolution. Yes, I am aware that the ones in 28-whatever-later aren't zombies int he classical sense...but same thing effectively. So zombie movies may make for an entertaining flick...but in the end the lack of any actual story makes them about as appealing as vampire movies.

RevRico said:

Not remembering it at all, I guess I'm going to have to watch 28 days later again.

Y'all better not be wrong.

 

Edit. Nope, berkeley that boring zombie crap. I thought this was the movie with the ice age where everything froze over.

I may not be a fan of zombie movies...but that "Day after Tomorrow" was 10 times worse. Admittedly though the concept is about the same level of ridiculous as zombies to begin with. Give me an actual good science fiction movie any day over either...IE: Gataca, District 9, Monsters, etc.

Wicked93gs said:

They decided to skip 28 months later? In general the problem I have with zombie-movie series is that nothing ever gets resolved. The zombies don't kill everyone, and the survivors never kill all the zombies....its just a dragged out dystopian world with no hope of any type of resolution. Yes, I am aware that the ones in 28-whatever-later aren't zombies int he classical sense...but same thing effectively. So zombie movies may make for an entertaining flick...but in the end the lack of any actual story makes them about as appealing as vampire movies.

World War Z is one zombie movie I can think of with a resolution, but yeah if you need one then zombie movies aren't the genre for you...

Oddly enough 28 days later wasn't intended to be a zombie movie although it massively altered the genre, it's the reason fast zombies rather than the traditional slow shambling zombies, and sci-fi zombies rather than supernatural zombies are the norm today.

28 Days Later is about zombies in the same way that Alien and The Thing are about monsters from outer space.

In reply to Wicked93gs :

Ooo Gataca. Talk about a sleeper hit movie. I went into it in high school expecting crap because the teacher put it on to fill the last week of school, and wound up so surprised at it that I actually bought a copy. 

I am hoping they close the loop on it, and not try to cash in. Watching the walking dead has been torture the past 4-5 years.

Wicked93gs said:

RevRico said:

Not remembering it at all, I guess I'm going to have to watch 28 days later again.

Y'all better not be wrong.

 

Edit. Nope, berkeley that boring zombie crap. I thought this was the movie with the ice age where everything froze over.

I may not be a fan of zombie movies...but that "Day after Tomorrow" was 10 times worse. Admittedly though the concept is about the same level of ridiculous as zombies to begin with. Give me an actual good science fiction movie any day over either...IE: Gataca, District 9, Monsters, etc.

Gattaca and District 9 are fantastic movies. "PRAWNS" 

28 Day Later was great. The sequel, not so much. The Walking Dead ruined the whole zombie genre for me because they just wanted to keep cashing out on the hardcore fans instead of just ending a series with a good conclusion. 

I also enjoy stupid campy thrashers or corny ones like Killer Clowns from Outer Space

In reply to DirtyBird222 :

District 9 was brilliant.

They basically designed the Prawns with the exact *opposite* philosophy of the aliens from Avatar. Everything about them is meant to be disgusting, offputting, creepy, threatening, and generally disdainful. For our reflex reaction to see them as "vermin".

Then they make us feel for and care about them.

DirtyBird222 said:

Wicked93gs said:

RevRico said:

Not remembering it at all, I guess I'm going to have to watch 28 days later again.

Y'all better not be wrong.

 

Edit. Nope, berkeley that boring zombie crap. I thought this was the movie with the ice age where everything froze over.

I may not be a fan of zombie movies...but that "Day after Tomorrow" was 10 times worse. Admittedly though the concept is about the same level of ridiculous as zombies to begin with. Give me an actual good science fiction movie any day over either...IE: Gataca, District 9, Monsters, etc.

Gattaca and District 9 are fantastic movies. "PRAWNS" 

28 Day Later was great. The sequel, not so much. The Walking Dead ruined the whole zombie genre for me because they just wanted to keep cashing out on the hardcore fans instead of just ending a series with a good conclusion. 

I also enjoy stupid campy thrashers or corny ones like Killer Clowns from Outer Space

 

 

You like campy? Evil Dead with Bruce Campbell. Do it now.

Wicked93gs said:

They decided to skip 28 months later? In general the problem I have with zombie-movie series is that nothing ever gets resolved.

Warm Bodies and Shawn of the Dead both did a pretty good job of resolution.  As much as I don't like it, I'd say that the remake of Dawn of the Dead resolved the situation, too, in favor of the zombies.

I skipped 28 Weeks Later, since the initial reviews for it were horrible.  Seems like it has picked up a bit of a following in the last several years, though.  If the new movie is reviewed well, maybe I'll try to catch up.

Beer Baron said:

In reply to DirtyBird222 :

District 9 was brilliant.

They basically designed the Prawns with the exact *opposite* philosophy of the aliens from Avatar. Everything about them is meant to be disgusting, offputting, creepy, threatening, and generally disdainful. For our reflex reaction to see them as "vermin".

Then they make us feel for and care about them.

Weren't they both released in 2009? I don't think District 9 got near the credit it deserves and find it to be a much more entertaining movie than Avatar. 

Clutchsmoke - If I've seen Killer Clowns from Outerspace then I've def seen Evil Dead.