Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 28 Years Later could reinvigorate the franchise and prove the blockbuster potential of a zombie movie trilogy. The success of the 28 Years Later trilogy could demonstrate that The Walking Dead‘s over-reliance on TV series could be its undoing. The Walking Dead‘s planned Rick Grimes movie trilogy faced an uphill battle, ultimately making The Ones Who Live TV series a better way forward.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s highly anticipated 28 Years Later could make another zombie franchise’s abandoned movie trilogy plan look even worse. Green-lit in mid-January 2024, Boyle and Garland’s 28 Years Later sequel marks the first entry in a planned post-apocalyptic horror film trilogy. The franchise began in 2002 with 28 Days Later — a film that redefined the genre. Inspired by George A. Romero‘s Night of the Living Dead films, 28 Days Later stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma…
