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Let’s Not Get Our Hopes Up But Steven Spielberg Just Hinted at a Return to Scary Cinema
Watching Steven Spielberg accept the “Honorary Golden Bear” at the Berlin International Film Festival this week, one thing was crystal clear: he’s not hanging up the camera anytime soon.
Spielberg is once again back in the Academy Awards picture with his deeply personal new movie The Fabelmans, but what’s next from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time?
During his acceptance speech at Berlinale, Spielberg brought up his early horror works including Duel and Jaws a couple times, at one point teasing a potential return to the genre.
“I feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished. I want to keep working,” Spielberg made it clear during his speech. “I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself and sometimes the shit out of you.”
Spielberg continued, “I gotta get back to some of those earlier scarier movies but that’s another story for later on. As long as there’s joy in it for me and as long as my audience can find joy and other human values in my films, I’m reluctant to ever say that’s a wrap.”
The 76-year-old filmmaker of course has a long history with the horror genre, producing classics including Poltergeist, Gremlins, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and Arachnophobia. But it’s been many years since Spielberg has directed a horror movie of his own, with War of the Worlds (2005) bringing him back to the genre over ten years after the original Jurassic Park.
Could we someday see another return to horror for Steven Spielberg before he calls his career a wrap? We’re not getting our hopes up, but it’s certainly not out of the question at this time.
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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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