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London’s Leicester Square was infected by the rage virus last night as it hosted the world premiere of Danny Boyle‘s zombie-horror 28 Years Later. Deadline was on the red carpet to speak to the team behind the film, including Oscar-winning director Boyle, stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams and Edvin Ryding, as well as Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainm...[Read More]

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“28 Years Later” leaps forward through time — into a world that has changed in worrisome parallel to ours.It begins with a deadly lab leak. Inside an English research facility in Cambridge, a bank of TV monitors is blasting clips of documentary violence — riots, hangings — into the eyes of a chimpanzee, a test subject in what we’d now recognize as “gain of function” virus research. Today, the rest...[Read More]

Almost two decades since the release of the previous installment in its franchise, 28 Years Later arrives in theaters this weekend, and the first reviews are in. Following 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, this horror sequel welcomes back the original’s writer Alex Garland, director Danny Boyle, and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle for a new story about secluded survivors of the ap...[Read More]

An infected in 28 Years LaterMiya Mizuno/Sony 28 Years Later Directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland In cinemas from 20 JuneAdvertisement Here’s a bit of screenplay advice to nail above your desk: make your plots simple and your characters complicated. We can polish off the story of 28 Years Later in a couple of paragraphs. It’s the belated third instalment in a series that began in 2002,...[Read More]

Sony Pictures More than two decades after introducing the concept of ‘fast zombies’ in “28 Days Later,” Danny Boyle delivers the first of a new trilogy with “28 Years Later” and the results are very good it seems. With 85 reviews counted, the film sits at a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, ahead of the 87% of the original film and 72% of its sequel “28 Weeks Later”. On Metacritic it sits at 78/100 from 31 ...[Read More]

The history of the dead – or, more precisely, the history of the living’s fascination with the dead – is an intriguing one. As a researcher of the supernatural, I’m often pulled aside at conferences or at the school gate, and told in furtive whispers about people’s encounters with the dead. The dead haunt our imagination in a number of different forms, whether as “cold spots”, or the walking de...[Read More]

Most movies are lucky to predict one thing. Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends, albeit rather disparate ones: global pandemic and fleet-footed zombies. Add in Cillian Murphy, who had his breakout role in that film, and “28 Days Later” was unusually prognostic. While many of us were following the beginnings of the Afghanistan...[Read More]

Most movies are lucky to predict one thing. Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends, albeit rather disparate ones: global pandemic and fleet-footed zombies. Add in Cillian Murphy, who had his breakout role in that film, and “28 Days Later” was unusually prognostic. While many of us were following the beginnings of the Afghanistan...[Read More]

Gather ye round, and I shall tell you the tale of the stout islanders off the mainland who built up a society from ruin, and the cunning boy named Spike who bravely faced demons to meet his destiny. You may not have thought, back in 2002 when Danny Boyle’s lo-fi 28 Days Later first came out, that elements of high fantasy would ever evolve from that gritty, groundbreaking movie’s style. But give s...[Read More]