JCC Amph 28 Days / Weeks / Years Later

As a thread derailment fan I say please continue.

 

So if any apps says it's a 4k version of 28 Days Later is just a full on lie and instead of putting it out on 4k disc they should just print a bunch of DVDs? Or at least the menu screen would be 4k

 

Possibly not. Maybe they'll do one of those amazing AI upscales!

 

The thing I’m concerned about is that so much zombie media has been done over the last 20 years that I’m not sure exactly where the 28 Days/Weeks/Years later franchise goes from here without appearing derivative of something else. Which is an absolutely ironic twist of fate, that the movie that essentially launched the modern zombie genre could now potentially be accused of ripping off another piece of zombie media. Not to mention we’ve also now experienced a real life global pandemic that shut the whole world down, and we’ve seen how people responded to it, which also has to guide the writing of any movie or tv show where a virus has spread throughout humanity. It will be interesting to see where they take this story.

 

If anyone can handle these challenges, it's Garland and Boyle I feel.

 

28 Years Later The Bone Temple gets January 2026 release date! Short wait in between movies, relatively speaking

 

I know the getting is good right now for sequels and reboots. And Cillian is at his peak in popularity right now. But how epic would it be if they waited until 2030 to release 28 Years Later, exactly 28 years after the first movie came out. Although, maybe by 2030 the world will actually look like it did in 28 Days Later.

 

Interview with Boyle about 28 Years Later, couple of quotes

Here, Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Jamie, Jodie Comer’s Isla, and their 12-year-old son Spike (Alfie Williams) are part of a community on Holy Island, aka Lindisfarne, connected to the UK mainland by a causeway only briefly accessible when the tide recedes each day. “It’s a closed and necessarily very tight community,” says Boyle. “There are very strict defence laws, obviously, to survive that long in what is effectively an ongoing hostile environment. They’ve created a successful community, as they see it.” It soon comes time for young Spike to take a rite-of-passage trip beyond the safety of Lindisfarne, to open his eyes to the true state of the nation. Needless to say, things don’t go to plan.

That’s just the beginning. What becomes of Jamie, Isla, Spike, and the rest of the UK is set to be depicted across an entire trilogy – beginning with Boyle’s 28 Years Later, continuing in Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (which has already shot), and culminating in a third, Boyle-helmed entry, which won’t go into production until audiences respond to the first film. For screenwriter Garland, the trilogy is no cash-grab, but purely story-driven. “This is very narratively ambitious. Danny and I understood that,” he explains. “We tried to condense it, but its natural form felt like a trilogy.” Get ready, then, for an infected epic. “You just don’t get to do a story on this scale in this country,” says producer Andrew Macdonald. “To do something in Britain that feels like it has [size], it’s great.” Rage on.

 

Garland and Boyle asked about 28 Weeks Later canon and they generally object to the subject (but the answer is basically yes)

[28 Years Later] is not in conflict [with 28 Weeks Later, but] 'canon' [is] not a very Danny Boyle word." Boyle himself added, "It's not mapped out like a scientific formula."