Danny Boyle explains 28 years later is the “opposite” of what you would expect from a sequel to zombies

If you expect 28 years later To become great in the way most of the sequels make with the most explosions, more explosions, global postal, director Danny Boyle It has a curved ball for you.

The long-awaited follow-up to his film in exchange for the 2002 game 28 days later He is not trying to overcome the apocalypse. He is trying to understand what remains later.

Speaking with ign, Boyle revealed that he and the writer Alex Garland Initially flirted with the typical sequel playbook.

“In fact, Alex wrote a script at some point, but they were a bit what you would expect, and with this I mean things that you expect from a sequel, like the virus is armed by a military or a government or a umbrella [organization]… that kind of thing. And none of us have been very taken. “

Instead of following the infection through the continents in a World War I Z.-Pansion in style, Boyle and Ghirland have made an acute ul inversion. They have chosen to attract attention inwards.

“We started to discuss this idea of ​​making a much larger project, which was a series of films that made the opposite of spreading it in Europe and worldwide”.

This reflective approach aligns with what Boyle believes that horror can do better holding a mirror in hand.

“We went back and looked at each other and thought … it was very similar to England [type] Movies. So we reduced it. We did the opposite of what you would expect and it was because we had a lot to think about. “

That “thought” touches the fractures of the real world that emerged in the following years 28 days later First successful theaters. Boyle mentions the Brexit and the changing identity of the United Kingdom, suggesting that this new chapter will not only concern hordes infected with anger, but on how a nation elaborates trauma.

“This is what you use for these films. They are not lessons or something like that, but they reflect, or there is a reflection in them, where you are and what really happened to you as individuals and as people.”

The sequel star Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-JohnsonAND Ralph FiennesAnd it focuses on a group of survivors who have lived in relative isolation on a remote island. When they return to the mainland, they confront each other not only with the infected, but with the obsessive question of what has changed and what not.

If 28 days later redefined what a zombie film could be in the early 2000s, 28 years later He is trying to turn the genre upside down on his head, this time with a disturbing calm and a deeper question in the center.

28 years later It opens in theaters in June 20, 2025.