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The Great Organ Failure Continues
Has Fox Searchlight been living in a cave or are they determined to make the first financially successful organ harvesting sci-fi thriller? In a shocking move, they’ve announced a new film that literally takes on the exact some plot as Logan’s Run (it’s forthcoming remake), The Island (a Logan’s Run rip-off), Repo! The Genetic Opera and the forthcoming Repossession Mambo. While the cons are glaring, there are a few pros that include the film being directed by the do-no-wrong Mark Romanek (why didn’t you do Wolfman, why!?) and Keira Knightley taking on the starring role. Read on for the details.
Keira Knightley (Domino, Pirates of the Caribbean) will star in the sci-fi thriller Never Let Me Go for Fox Searchlight.
Mark Romanek (“One Hour Photo”, music videos for Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others) will direct the cloning-themed pic, which will also star Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan.
The story revolves around a trio who grew up in a boarding school with no contact or knowledge of the outside world until they discover they are clones grown for the sole purpose of organ donation. The film is set to lense in April in London and Norfolk, England.
Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich are producing through their London-based DNA Films banner. Alex Garland, who penned the screenplay, is producing as well. Film 4 is also involved as a producer.
DNA, which has a longstanding partnership with Searchlight, has teamed with the specialty label on a number of films including “The Last King of Scotland” and Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine” and “28 Days Later.”
Knightley is attached to star in several films, including “The Beautiful and the Damned” and the Columbia Pictures remake of “My Fair Lady.”
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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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