Movies
Danny Boyle Has an Idea for Third ’28 Days Later’
It’s already been 12 years since Fox Atomic released 28 Weeks Later, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Danny Boyle‘s 28 Days Later. While the filmmaker wouldn’t return for the sequel, he is involved with the long-gestating third film; four years ago, Boyle said he’d be interested in returning to the director’s chair.
Set to be called 28 Months/Years Later, the project has been defunct for quite some time. Now, Boyle is reviving chatter in a new interview with The Independent where he revealed that he’s still working on the sequel with Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, who wrote the 2002 original.
“Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part,” he told the site. “It’s properly good.”
He continued: “The original film led to a bit of a resurgence in the zombie drama and it doesn’t reference any of that. It doesn’t feel stale at all. He’s concentrating on directing his own work at the moment, so it’s stood in abeyance really, but it’s a you-never-know.”
In 2015, Garland told IGN that they had “just started talking about it seriously.”
“We’ve got an idea. Danny [Boyle] and [producer] Andrew [Macdonald] and I have been having quite serious conversations about it so it is a possibility. It’s complicated. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s complicated, which are boring so I won’t go into, but there’s a possibility.”
He added: “It’s more likely to be 28 Months [Later] than 28 Years. 28 Years gives you one more place to go. 28 Decades is probably taking the piss.”
It’s been four years since the last time there’s been talk. Boyle could have easily said the project is never happening, but insisted that there’s a good idea that he and Garland have been developing. Although, Garland has been on fire lately, so the idea that he’s going to buckle down to finish writing another 28 Days Later is proper insane. I think the takeaway here is that Boyle sounds committed to (eventually) bringing the trilogy to an end one way or another. We’ll just be here waiting patiently for 2030/2035.
From director Sébastien Vaniček, Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, but that’s just one of two brand new Evil Dead movies releasing in the next two years.
Evil Dead Wrath recently wrapped production, with the upcoming film from director Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) set for theatrical release on April 7, 2028.
We’ve known virtually nothing about the movie up to this point, but a recent interview with producer Rob Tapert has surfaced this week (thanks, Dread Central) and it reveals a very surprising bit of information about Evil Dead Wrath. The film is set in 1972!!
Tapert told the students at Michigan State University during a chat, “Evil Dead Wrath is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”
That means Evil Dead Wrath takes place even before the arrival of Ash Williams and friends to that infamous cabin in the woods, which should give the film a whole new kind of flavor.
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was of course set in the Middle Ages, but Evil Dead Wrath will take place chronologically before Ash Williams was transported into medieval times!
“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock,” Tapert notes. “Still available. A lot of movies shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”
Tapert calls Wrath “very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. [Galluppi] made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”
The Last Stop in Yuma County, it’s interesting to note, is also set in the 1970s!
Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant will star in Evil Dead Wrath.
Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert are producing. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas.