22 Years Later, Cillian Murphy Might Return for28 Years Later

The granddaddy ofthe modern zombi spirit genreis now formally back , and it seems its crowing star may also be along for the drive . week after news brokethat managing director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland were bringing back the populace of their 2002 hit 28 Days after with 28 Years Later , the sequel has now found a home at Sony . Along with that word comes the extra nugget that Cillian Murphy , who starred in the original celluloid and could come through an Oscar this class for Oppenheimer , will administrator - get the sequel and maybe even mavin .

The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news of Sony ’s victory in the competitory bid for the deed of conveyance , as well as Murphy ’s involution . His character from the original , Jim , did survive that first zombie scare so it ’s not out of the realm of possibility for him to return . ( Though he did exit in multiple alternate close andusing videodisk extras as canon for post - apocalyptic sequelsis something that happens . Food for thought . )

Boyle will engineer and Garland will save the new film . And while the original news of the labor border it as the first of a potential trilogy , all write by Garland , this in style update only mentions a “ part two , ” of which a director has yet to be determine .

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.Image: Fox

28 Days after was a turning stage in the careers of all require , though Boyle had already had plenty of success himself . The movie establish Murphy into the mainstream as well as Garland , and all three stay relevant and popular . With a modest account budget in the vicinity of $ 70 million , 28 year afterwards palpate like a barb dunk . We ca n’t wait to learn more about it , likely around the time Garlandstarts doing wardrobe for Civil War .

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