![]() ![]() Here is the disappointing sequel, on which Boyle and Garland serve as executive producers. When the infection comes back, you see it build and break out.F our years ago, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland had a huge, bloodthirsty, flesh-ripping, eyeball-gouging hit on their hands with 28 Days Later: a post-apocalyptic vision of Britain reduced to anarchy with the leak of a dangerous virus called "rage", reducing one and all to ferocious zombies. In the first film, you didn’t know what was going to happen in this film, you sort of know. Says Macdonald, “This is more action horror, in the same way that Aliens was to Alien. So prepare for Apache gunships strafing Westminster and nighttime panic in the streets of London. With a further twist that some people may be immune to the virus (albeit carriers), and a twitchy US military prepared to incinerate anything that moves when the infection returns, this, in every way, is aiming to be bigger and better than its predecessor. In Don’s case, his survival instinct wins over love.” A virus is trying always to survive and human beings also have an amazing survival instinct. “There is something absolutely similar between a virus and a human being. “That’s something I really loved about the story,” says Fresnadillo. Don (Robert Carlyle), who survived the initial outbreak, and his young son (Mackintosh Muggleton) and daughter (Imogen Poots), who were safely abroad, are reunited in a safe zone on the Isle Of Dogs. The film picks up with the US military overseeing Britain’s resettlement after the virus has burned itself out. But when he had the idea to tell the story through the experiences of one family, he was hooked. “Danny said, ‘We need you because we love Intacto and we want somebody to introduce something new in the story.’”Īs it was, Fresnadillo was initially reluctant to take on the project, being neither interested in sequels nor horror movies. ![]() “They were trying to bring fresh eyes to this landscape,” says Fresnadillo. “I tried to persuade Cillian Murphy to come back as an infected, but he wouldn’t,” Macdonald laughs, adding that Boyle never ruled himself out of directing, “but it was just never going to happen because he was making Sunshine.” Although none of the original cast return, the blood-hopping virus that spawns acute anger management issues does. “Danny’s line has always been that to have a successful business in this country, you need to embrace sequels,” says Macdonald. The sequel to 2002’s viral-nightmare horror 28 Days Later is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a Spanish filmmaker with one credit to his name (albeit an extremely good one, the classy thriller Intacto) who Boyle hand-picked as his replacement. “And nobody else could direct that /except/ Danny.”Ģ8 Weeks Later, however, is a different matter. “The sequel that Danny and I should do is obviously Porno,” producer Andrew Macdonald tells Uncut, referring to the Trainspotting follow-up that he and director Danny Boyle are asked about with a frequency bordering on national obsession. Zombies stalk the streets of London once more in viral-nightmare horror sequel 28 Weeks Later Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Robert Carlyle, Andrew Macdonald Uncut ![]() This text is replaced by the Flash movie. ![]()
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