28 Years Later

[Andrew NDB]

Sweet! With Danny Boyle at the helm and all.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/boyle-garland-return-for-28-years-later/

[XERO]

Let me know when they get to 28 Millenniums Later.

[IMJ]

Hope it's more like the first and less like the second.....

Let me know when they get to 28 Millenniums Later.

They did that already, but it was called "Sunshine". LOL!

[Andrew NDB]

3 studios are battling it out for who gets to do this.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/three-studios-battle-for-28-years-later/

Always a good problem to have for a movie.

Hope it's more like the first and less like the second.....

Hmm... I haven't watched either one since a lifetime ago but I seem to recall actually liking the second one a bit more. Maybe the first half of the first one was where it was "best."

[IMJ]

Really? I couldn't escape that the second one felt like a cheap D2DVD knock off of the first one to be honest. Sort of the same thing as how the original 30 Days of Night was a quality movie 100% and then they made that Dark Days movie and it just screamed "hackjob follow-up".

[Andrew NDB]

https://www.darkhorizons.com/murphy-returning-for-28-years-later/

Cillian Murphy returning?

[Andrew NDB]

What?! They're giving the second one to the director of the Marvels?

https://www.darkhorizons.com/nia-dacosta-to-direct-28-years-later-2/

[Andrew NDB]

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[ToTheNines]

Looks incredible. Gotta love Danny Boyle.

[Andrew NDB]

And lots of people freaking out about "That's Cillian Murphy as a zombie in the trailer!" Several things:

1. That's not the way zombies work in this universe. There are not rotting, undead carcasses moving about like The Walking Dead, only very much alive people with a virus.

2. There's plenty of shots of Cillian Murphy on set and in costume (lightly wounded in some shots).

3. IF that's supposed to be Cillian Murphy as a zombie, it has to be some kind of dream sequence OR that's his ultimate fate at the end of the movie. Which since that would be pretty spoilery to put that in the trailer makes me guess it's probably more the former. Plus, see back to #1.

[Andrew NDB]

Hope it's more like the first and less like the second.....

It's definitely more like the first. And it's pretty good. The only thing is some characters (that are left alive by the end) don't really get full arcs, presumably because they figure they can get around to them in 28 Years Later Part II or Part III.

I was wondering about the bit of news that this movie was shot exclusively on iPhones, and why that was. Then I rewatched 28 Days Later and saw what sh** quality was, then I read that Boyle shot 28 Days Later on the Canon XL1, which is basically just a consumer grade camera you could buy anywhere back in the early 2000s for a few hundred dollars that only shoots at a 480p that looks like crap. He did that intentionally to make the movie look like a found footage thing, and now with 28 Years Later and iPhones he's semi-doing that again.

But to my eyes, I can TELL it's shot on iPhones, especially when there's low light. Lots of weird motion blurring and other blurring to give things artificial clarity.

[IMJ]

I love, love a good zombie movie as much as the next guy, but I got limited use out of my Blu-Rays of these flicks before recently selling them.

Honestly I thought the first movie was serviceable and I watched it maybe twice in all of these years of owning it. I bought the 2nd one on disc years ago and found to be borderline unwatchable. I only sat through it once and thought it was terrible with no redeeming quality to the characters or the world it resided in at all. I'm also not a fan of the intentional-1970's-camera-quality that either was presented in.

Oddly enough, I love "Sunshine" although it takes a turn for the worse when it inexplicably turns into an awkwardly-filmed horror movie at the end.

[neatoman]

So why did they skip 28 Months Later? Or should they have made 28 Fortnights Later before that? What's next then, are we getting 28 Decades Later or is it too silly to set a pseudo-Zombie movie in 2230?

Anyway, in all seriousness, I watched the original two for the first time in preparation to go see this one. I'm not sure I like them though. To me there's just something kind of off about the original and second one just seemed like a straight up bad movie to me.

[Andrew NDB]

Part 2.

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[Andrew NDB]

Wow... so part 3 has already been greenlit. Boyle said part 3 would be contingent on the performance of part 2, which isn't even out for a month.

https://i.ibb.co/0pkttPDF/FB-IMG-1765426568506.jpg

And there's no "in talks." The whole thing was sold with Murphy on board for a cameo in 2, with the promise of a big role for him in 3 if all went well at the box office.