"28 Years Later" untitled zombie movie sequel

[FourWheelDrift]

Danny Boyle will direct and Alex Garland is writing the screenplay. Cillian Murphy as a producer but may also star in the film.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/1/31/xm1wezk...

[The OG Jester]

By the time it gets released it probably will be 28 years Later!

[captain_cynic]

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

[Tycho]

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

I see where you are coming from but I don't care what they are called, it's terrifying and I can't wait.

[DanL]

I’ll be interested to see where they go with it. Post apocalypse, or humans back on top with no go areas?

After 28 years, what are the zombies feeding on?!

[FourWheelDrift]

They have big plans if it's going to be the 3 films the were initially touting to potential buyers. Ignoring 28 Weeks Later completely.

[SpudLink]

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

I've never seen a good justification for the claim that zombies don't run. The George Romero films featured shuffling corpses seeking human flesh, but that isn't what the term 'zombie' originally meant. There are earlier films with living people being mind controlled and referred to as 'zombies'. We accept Romero's shuffling corpses as zombies, so why not the 'infected' of 28 Days Later who run after their victims?

You could argue that 'zombie' has come to mean 'slow shuffling corpse seeking human flesh' in popular culture. But shortly after 28 Days was released everyone was referring to the 'infected' as zombies, and subsequently there have been 2 decades of sprinting 'zombies' in film and in video games. So 'zombie' applies as much to runners as it does walkers.

Discuss.

[FourWheelDrift]

SpudLink said:

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

I've never seen a good justification for the claim that zombies don't run. The George Romero films featured shuffling corpses seeking human flesh, but that isn't what the term 'zombie' originally meant. There are earlier films with living people being mind controlled and referred to as 'zombies'. We accept Romero's shuffling corpses as zombies, so why not the 'infected' of 28 Days Later who run after their victims?

You could argue that 'zombie' has come to mean 'slow shuffling corpse seeking human flesh' in popular culture. But shortly after 28 Days was released everyone was referring to the 'infected' as zombies, and subsequently there have been 2 decades of sprinting 'zombies' in film and in video games. So 'zombie' applies as much to runners as it does walkers.

Discuss.

In Romero's very first film Night of the Living Dead (1968) the very first zombie is not a slow shuffling dead, or a walking dead they actually run at the car with the woman in it and even uses a rock to try and break the window.

https://youtu.be/MQ8ZKw7YIfQ?t=429

[Lucas Ayde]

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

Technically, the 28 Days Later Zombies are alive and human, but infected with the 'Rage' virus. This means they also will die off from hunger and exposure over time, as mentioned in the original film. Of course, like all fiction you can write in anything you want '.. but the virus also caused them to mutate to not need to eat blah blah'.

And running Zombies are fine - the remake of 'Dawn of the Dead' is one of my all time faves. The fact that you had fast zombies with one purpose - to got to and eat the nearest human as quickly as possible - was a new kind of immediate terror as opposed to the slow horror of shambling groups. As shown in the first few scenes: Zombie running after the car and peeling off to attack a random person on foot because they were now closer ... Awesome!

[Lucas Ayde]

FourWheelDrift said:

They have big plans if it's going to be the 3 films the were initially touting to potential buyers. Ignoring 28 Weeks Later completely.

28 Weeks Later was almost good but totally ruined by the utterly stupid main characters who basically condemned all the new settlers (and the rest of the World) to destruction through their cluelessness.

[Defcon5]

Not seen the originals for years.

Which of the 3000 available streaming services are they on?

[UTH]

FourWheelDrift said:

Danny Boyle will direct and Alex Garland is writing the screenplay. Cillian Murphy as a producer but may also star in the film.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/1/31/xm1wezk...

This is one of those films I've checked every few weeks/months to see if there's any news on a new one coming out.....so it's nice to think that at last it might happen

[Radec]

Defcon5 said:

Not seen the originals for years.

Which of the 3000 available streaming services are they on?

None of them last time I looked.

[UTH]

Radec said:

Defcon5 said:

Not seen the originals for years.

Which of the 3000 available streaming services are they on?

None of them last time I looked.

Weird

https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/zkjff9/up...

[mickk]

UTH said:

Weird

https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/zkjff9/up...

As in the Reddit comments, it's probably been pulled due to the new one coming out. It'll be released a few months before the premiere.

[captain_cynic]

SpudLink said:

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

I've never seen a good justification for the claim that zombies don't run. The George Romero films featured shuffling corpses seeking human flesh, but that isn't what the term 'zombie' originally meant. There are earlier films with living people being mind controlled and referred to as 'zombies'. We accept Romero's shuffling corpses as zombies, so why not the 'infected' of 28 Days Later who run after their victims?

Zombie or Zombi was originally from Haitian folklore referring to a corpse reanimated (by magical means). The word is not said or even implied anywhere in NotLD, it was applied after the fact and became the colloquial definition. If memory serves, unlike modern Zombies the ones in Romero's film were dexterous and intelligent (capable of speech... "send more cops") which doesn't seem the norm for a colloquial zombie.

The phycological terror of the ambulant deceased is that they are relentless and difficult to stop, not that they're fast. It's more the notion that no matter how fast or far you run, they'll eventually catch up because they never tire, never give up.

However like TWD, 28 Days/weeks/months Later never called them Zombies, as another poster pointed out they were living infected people. So I stand by my statement

Tycho said:

I see where you are coming from but I don't care what they are called, it's terrifying and I can't wait.

Couldn't agree more. Bring on the infected.

[Wafu7]

captain_cynic said:

If memory serves, unlike modern Zombies the ones in Romero's film were dexterous and intelligent (capable of speech... "send more cops") which doesn't seem the norm for a colloquial zombie.

That was Return of the Living Dead, which was nothing to do with Romero. It was fundamentally the work of John Russo, Romero’s co-writer on NOTLD, along with Dan O’Bannon (he of Alien fame, amongst other things). Zombies in Romero’s films didn’t speak until Bub came along in Day of the Dead.

Hello, Aunt Alicia.

[SpudLink]

Wafu7 said:

That was Return of the Living Dead, which was nothing to do with Romero. It was fundamentally the work of John Russo, Romero’s co-writer on NOTLD, along with Dan O’Bannon (he of Alien fame, amongst other things). Zombies in Romero’s films didn’t speak until Bub came along in Day of the Dead.

Hello, Aunt Alicia.

Bub, that’s the name. Whenever I think of that zombie I call him Eddie. My memory has conflated him with this guy…

[wolfracesonic]

Some Zombies are quite smart as well… ’Be dead’

[durbster]

Lucas Ayde said:

captain_cynic said:

Shirley it would be 28 months later...

Also I can't call this a zombie film... Zombies don't run.

Technically, the 28 Days Later Zombies are alive and human, but infected with the 'Rage' virus. This means they also will die off from hunger and exposure over time, as mentioned in the original film. Of course, like all fiction you can write in anything you want '.. but the virus also caused them to mutate to not need to eat blah blah'.

Yep, I don't think a lot of people realise this. The zombies in 28 Days Later aren't dead.

Lucas Ayde said:

FourWheelDrift said:

They have big plans if it's going to be the 3 films the were initially touting to potential buyers. Ignoring 28 Weeks Later completely.

28 Weeks Later was almost good but totally ruined by the utterly stupid main characters who basically condemned all the new settlers (and the rest of the World) to destruction through their cluelessness.

Let's say there really was some kind of highly contagious virus spreading across the world, I think we can be confident that every member of the general public would be responsible, take instruction from experts and not do anything to risk spreading it further.

I absolutely love 28 Weeks Later. It's in my top 3 films.