As in much of the film, this scene is gloomy and seems drained of colour, but when the group briefly takes the risk of opening a door to the outside we see that it is brilliantly sunny echoes of the match in darkness. The first visual image shows us a match striking (life continuing to spark, just about?) and we then meet Don (Robert Carlyle), making dinner along with a small group of survivors hiding out in a barricaded house from the marauding Rage-infected. I hope he does it because I’d love to see what kind of story this script tells.The first half-hour is essentially all premise and set-up, and when the principal characters do at last have an urgent need in their lives, it doesn’t add up to much more than a rather abstract “survive pursuit” (largely by the military as in the first film, they’re at least as much the enemy as the zombies). Never, really, does the movie engage in sufficient detail with the mechanics of how its protagonists are trying to survive for us to be invested in the nitty-gritty of individual scenes.įresnadillo’s film opens with a wonderfully foreboding single, long-held musical note on the soundtrack, an early indication that the score by John Murphy-who also composed for 28 Days Later and takes a similar approach here, including the insistent and unsettling repetition of a simple four-note ascending motif-will be one of the best things about 28 Weeks Later. It sounds like Boyle is actually really interested in making 28 Months Later a reality. Every couple of years it will come up, or going, 'Do you want to do that?' and then for some reason it never happens." "I have got a really cool idea for it, but it's a much bigger movie, and one of the things about 28 Days Later is that it was small and punk and this idea is less small and punk. I think it actually, speaking of conversations, 28 Days Later joined the zombie conversation, that genre. "A long time has passed and 28 Days Later, when it arrived fresh, and I don't think it's fresh anymore. When previously talking about this possible third movie, Garland said: So yeah, I love the idea and it’s very appealing to me.” It really stands up, which is amazing for a film that’s 20 years old. Because I showed it to my kids recently, some Halloween about four or five years ago, and they loved it. But every time I do bump into Danny or Alex I always mention it. “I think there’s a problem with that, in that I’m 20 years older. 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy commented with a laugh: It’s something that a lot of us have been wanting to see, so it would be cool if it actually got made after all these years. I think he’s right! Fans of the franchise would welcome a third film. But a third part would get people in, if it was half-decent.” It’s hard for companies distributing films and for cinema chains to show films, they’re struggling to get people into the cinema unless it’s something like Top Gun: Maverick or a Marvel. “It might come back into focus because one of the things that’s happening in the business at the moment is it has to be a big reason for you to go to the cinema, because there are less and less reasons. It’s funny, I hadn’t thought about it until you just said it, and I remembered ‘Bang, this script!’ which is again set in England, very much about England. It sounds like he’s ready to dust off the script and make an effort to develop it. The script for the film was written by Alex Garland, and in a recent interview with NME, Boyle teased a renewed interest in making the films. At one point several years ago the movie was supposed to move forward, but it never did. That was followed by the sequel 28 Weeks Later in 2007, and over the years there has been talk of a third film, 28 Months Later. Danny Boyle’s zombie film 28 Days Laterwas released 20 years ago, and it’s one of the better zombie movies that has been made.
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