'28 Months Later' Spoilers: What We Know So Far About The Sequel To '28 Weeks Later' [VIDEO]
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding 28 Months Later, and now we have some of the key names who have previously been involved in the series talking about the project.
Most recently, Danny Boyle, who directed the original 28 Days Later, spoke about the possibility of him coming on board. Speaking to IGN, he suggested that he might be interested if the movie took a very different direction from the previous ones. Boyle alluded to wanting to surprise audiences and not give them more of the same.
"I love doing stuff that is 'How are you going to direct that? How would you do that?' It's like this project - it's like the Steve Jobs," he said. "You go 'How are you going to do that?' That's a wonderful place to start off. The worst place is when you know how to do it. Or you think you do. Because actually you don't. The audiencespot that quite quickly - they're weird, and rightfully so, they're righteous judges of us. They go 'Oh, he's done that before - that's crap.' I've learnt that. So if it's something that I've felt that about, then I'd have no hesitation."
Boyle who is currently busy working on the highly anticipated sequel for Trainspotting, revealed that he had read Alex Garland's script for 28 Months Later and though it was lovely, adding that Garland had a different take and was veering away from the predictable zombie themed shows and movies that have inundated pop culture recently.
"It is a good idea, which I can't obviously say what it is. But it's a lovely idea. Because there's been so many stories told since we did the first one - you know in television and other movies and stuff like that. It's become such a popular device - the walking dead if you like, or zombies, or the infected as we called them," he said.
"But he had a lovely idea on them and it's being worked on. It's not as far advanced - I can't tell you more about it than that, because it's not as far advanced as Trainspotting 2, but then it started later. Ten months seems like a long time to you guys, but in terms of the gestation of things that's not an enormous amount of time. I wouldn't be over-concerned yet that it's not going to arrive."
The first confirmation for the movie was confirmed by author Alex Garland.
The writer of The Beach, Ex Machina, and 28 Days Later, revealed that the project will be going forward with producer Andrew McDonald.
In an interview with IndieWire Garland revealed that he was not initially very invested in the idea of a trilogy kickstarted by 28 Days Later -- which was followed up with 28 Weeks Later.
"The rights to 28 Days were frozen, effectively, because they were shared between Danny [Boyle], [producer] Andrew [McDonald] and myself, and Fox," he said. "After the second one, none of us really wanted to do another. Fox may or may not have, I don't know."
He went on to reveal that he let the idea come to him naturally without any premeditated conception of a trilogy and talk of Boyle collaborating on Trainspotting 2 surfaced, Garland got inspiration for 28 Months.
"About two years ago, Danny started collaborating on the potential to make Trainspotting 2, another sequel," he said. "In that conversation, an idea for 28 Months arrived. I had a sort of weird idea that popped into my head. Partly because of a trip I'd taken. I had this thought, and I suggested it to Andrew and Danny, but I also said I don't want to work on it. I don't really want to play a role, and Andrew said, 'Leave it to me.' So he's gone off and is working on it."
While no real official word of confirmation has come from Boyle, the director did hint at the fact that 28 Months Later is in the pipeline in previous interviews.
He told The Playlist that he didn't mind working on a sequel to 28 Weeks Later.
"I've got no problem [with that]. It's the usual thing: is it's not about whether people think it's a good idea that you're directing. It's whether you respond to the script or not," he said.
