From empireonline:
A couple of years back, 28 Days Later scared the living daylights out of everyone who saw it. Creeps shot up our spine as armies of sprinting infected got " a bit bitey", as Shaun's mum would say, and congestion charging met a gloomy end as all traffic disappeared from the streets of London. Although come to think of it, at least you'd be able to get a seat on the Tube in the morning, so it's not a complete disaster movie.
Now, as inevitably as red eyes and an insatiable hunger for blood follow infection, there is word on a possible sequel. Tentatively titled 28 Weeks Later, Fox Searchlight is in talks with BBC screenwriter Rowan Joffe, the man behind Last Resort, to come up with the script. Director Danny Boyle and original screenwriter Alex Garland are expected to return as producers but not to take up their original roles, and there's no word as yet on whether any of the original cast, notably lead Cillian Murphy, will return.
It's hard to imagine a sequel matching the nightmare-inducing original, especially with Boyle and Garland no longer in the driving seat, and it remains to be seen which of the endings to the original this will follow the alternative ending was much gloomier than the theatrical version seen here in the UK. Still, we hope that this will emerge as a worthy successor - and whatever happens, it could be worse. It could be a sequel to Sandra Bullock's 28 Days.
Could be decent with the right script!
A couple of years back, 28 Days Later scared the living daylights out of everyone who saw it. Creeps shot up our spine as armies of sprinting infected got " a bit bitey", as Shaun's mum would say, and congestion charging met a gloomy end as all traffic disappeared from the streets of London. Although come to think of it, at least you'd be able to get a seat on the Tube in the morning, so it's not a complete disaster movie.
Now, as inevitably as red eyes and an insatiable hunger for blood follow infection, there is word on a possible sequel. Tentatively titled 28 Weeks Later, Fox Searchlight is in talks with BBC screenwriter Rowan Joffe, the man behind Last Resort, to come up with the script. Director Danny Boyle and original screenwriter Alex Garland are expected to return as producers but not to take up their original roles, and there's no word as yet on whether any of the original cast, notably lead Cillian Murphy, will return.
It's hard to imagine a sequel matching the nightmare-inducing original, especially with Boyle and Garland no longer in the driving seat, and it remains to be seen which of the endings to the original this will follow the alternative ending was much gloomier than the theatrical version seen here in the UK. Still, we hope that this will emerge as a worthy successor - and whatever happens, it could be worse. It could be a sequel to Sandra Bullock's 28 Days.
Could be decent with the right script!
