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A New ‘Passage’ Opens for Matt Reeves
Jason Keller has been hired to pen the adaptation of Justin Cronin’s epic 2009 novel The Passage for Fox 2000, writes Heat Vision.
Let Me In/Cloverfield director Matt Reeves came on to develop and direct the project in April, and he has settled on Keller as his collaborator.
Keller wrote the screenplay for the Marc Forster-directed Machine Gun Preacher, which Relativity Media just acquired for a fall release, and he co-wrote Relativity’s untitled Snow White project, which just began filming with Julia Roberts starring.
Cronin’s Passage, which is the first of a planned trilogy, “is set a hundred years in the future after a government experiment to lengthen the human life span ends up turning people into vampires.”
Fox 2000 picked up rights to the proposed trilogy of books in 2007. John Logan wrote the original draft of the script when Ridley Scott, who is producing the project, was also considering it as a directing gig.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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