The long-gestating sequel to 28 Days/Weeks Later has finally found a studio with Danny Boyle and Alex Garland.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Years Later is heading to Sony Pictures after a long bidding war over the rights to the sequel package to the 2002 horror movie.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reunited to direct and write the sequel with hopes for a new trilogy of movies. Boyle would only direct the first film with a new director coming for any future films. Cillian Murphy, who starred in the first film is also returning, but as an executive producer. There’s still talks that he could star in the film, but those details haven’t come out yet.
The representation for Boyle and Garland, WME, took the proposal to various movie studios, but the bidding war came down to Warner Bros. and Sony. THR compares the package of Boyle and Garland returning to what happened with George Miller and Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015.
The pair will also produce, as would original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of onetime studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel. Bernie Bellew is also producing.
28 Days Later really kicked off a zombie movie crazy that continues to this day. Shows and movies like The Walking Dead, World War Z, The Last Of Us, Zombieland, and more owe this movie a debt of gratitude.
Murphy starred as a man who wakes up from a coma, alone in a hospital, only to discover the outside world had been overtaken by the undead 28 days earlier. All three of Murphy, Garland, and Boyle have all seen massive success in Hollywood since the film came out, with Murphy starring in this season’s award’s front-runner Oppenheimer.
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Source: THR
