Regardless of rumors on the contrary, Cillian Murphy is just not in 28 Years Later.
That’s in line with the film’s producer, Andrew Macdonald. He informed Empire Journal that whereas director Danny Boyle wished Murphy, who starred within the first movie within the sequence, 2002’s 28 Days Later, to return for the brand new movie, it didn’t fairly work out this time. Nevertheless, the door is open for Murphy to seem in one of many further sequels which are already within the works.
“[On] this, we wished him to be concerned and he wished to be concerned,” Macdonald stated. “He isn’t within the first movie, however I’m hoping there will probably be some Jim someplace alongside the road.”
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Murphy was 28 Days Later’s hero Jim, who awakens from a coma in an deserted London decimated by an viral outbreak that turns folks into zombies. He manages to flee the town and survive (though not in many of the film’s alternate endings, which Boyle initially most well-liked however finally ditched in favor of a extra upbeat conclusion).
Early stories about 28 Years Later teased that Murphy would seem in some kind of supporting function — and on-line sleuths speculated one of many putting zombies within the trailer for 28 Years Later was an zombified Murphy. That was not right, and neither have been the rumors about Murphy. 28 Years Later as a substitute stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes.
28 Years Later is scheduled to open in theaters on June 20. The film is the primary in a deliberate trilogy of sequels; the following installment, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, has already been shot. So it’s attainable Murphy might seem in that movie or the following third film. (“I might hope we will work with him not directly sooner or later,” Macdonald added.)
