Sony Photos is formally pushing ahead with its 28 Days Later franchise. With the power and excitment popping out of early fan screenings for Nia DaCosta’s upcoming sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the studio is formally shifting ahead with the third movie within the trilogy.
The following installment doesn’t have a title but, however momentum is powerful sufficient that Alex Garland is already writing it and Cillian Murphy is now in talks to return.
The second movie arrives on January 16 and viewers who caught final night time’s AMC Century Metropolis fan occasion have been loud about it.
Metro’s Tori Brazier mentioned, “This has cranked all the pieces as much as 11, and I warn you, you will want a really sturdy abdomen (or a sick bag).” So it appears like DaCosta has delivered a horror expertise designed to go away viewers squirming.
Christopher Mills of Nexus Level Information referred to as the movie “one of many best horror motion pictures of the last decade, because it takes the primary film and goes 10 further miles with the brutality and depth of the world.” It’s excessive reward for a franchise already identified for pressure and bleak depth.
Murphy’s potential return is a giant deal for longtime followers of 28 Days Later. The actor not solely reprises his position in The Bone Temple, he’s additionally an government producer on each latest movies. Contemporary off his Greatest Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer, Murphy stays one of many franchise’s strongest hyperlinks to the 2002 origin level.
Garland’s involvement additional ties the trilogy again to its roots since he scripted the unique Danny Boyle basic.
Sony’s plan for the trilogy has been attention-grabbing. After they acquired the rights they secured an choice for a 3rd film however held off on formally beginning it. As an alternative they shot the primary two installments again to again.
Danny Boyle returned to direct the primary movie on this revived slate and DaCosta took the reins on the second. Boyle has expressed curiosity in directing the third entry and there may be hope he might be again behind the digital camera.
The renewed franchise has already confirmed itself commercially. 28 Years Later opened to $30 million, one of many strongest horror debuts in a really crowded 12 months for the style. It went on to earn $70.4 million home and $151.3 million worldwide. That makes it the highest grossing entry in your entire collection which initially started underneath Fox Searchlight in 2002.
Throughout all three horror movies, the franchise has introduced in almost $300 million globally. Every chapter has explored a future the place the contaminated overwhelm humanity and survivors fracture into fiercely opposed factions, a theme that can intensify in The Bone Temple.
I used to be actually hoping that Boyle and Garland would get to make all three movies and inform the entire story they initially envisioned, so that is thrilling information!
Supply: Deadline
