Alex Garland reveals the original idea very different for 28 years later

Before 28 days later It has become the disturbing, emotional and feverishly intense and wild film that we have achieved, it was something else, something very different. According to the screenwriter Alex GarlandThat original idea would probably have returned the franchise.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Garland opened a very early concept for the long-awaited third film in the Rage-Virus saga. Let’s just say that if things had gone from that road, we wouldn’t talk about it 28 years later As if we were now.

“I had a version of this story that was basically a great stupid action film,” Garland admitted. The story would follow a group of soldiers of the Chinese special forces that break the quarantine and sneaked into the United Kingdom to find the laboratory in which the virus began to hope to find a cure. But when they arrive, another group is already there … trying with weapons.

“It was completely and absolutely fucking generic,” said Garland. “Shootouts and mass attacks and large action-adventure style sets.” Oh, and would have been entirely in mandarin with English subtitles.

Danny BoyleHis longtime creative partner did not embrace exactly the idea. “He just laughed,” said Garland, adding that both in the end tried to rework it, but “finally, we both gave up.”

However, the process was not a total loss. Garland said: “Writing something so generic was the liberating element for all our problems. He gave us permission to have a totally empty blackboard.”

That “empty slate” gave way to the film that we have obtained in the end, which is a film that is based on the inheritance of the original without trying to imitate it. Is focused on a father and a son (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson AND Alfie Williams) which leave their island isolated and fall within a United Kingdom that has changed with the virus, both biologically and psychologically. The infected evolved.

The delivery was divided, but I loved it! I liked the big swings that wanted and I liked what he delivered at the end. It also thrilled me The bone temple.

It is a kind of small miracle that we have obtained this version instead of military shooting in Mandarin language. Of course, Garland’s demolished idea could have done something interesting, but it is clear that the soul of the 28 -day universe is found in something more rooted, personal, disturbing and bewildered. It’s not a generic movie!