This week’s eye-catching 28 Years Later trailer featured a zombie that regarded prefer it could possibly be Cillian Murphy reprising his function from the primary movie. However it seems it’s truly an artwork seller director Danny Boyle talent-spotted.
A short shot within the trailer exhibits an extremely skinny zombie stand up from the bottom, a member of the undead who bears a placing resemblance to Murphy. The Oppenheimer star is down as government producer of 28 Years Later and confirmed to reprise his function, however, as one Sony government has teased, “in a shocking method and in a method that grows.”
28 Days Later was certainly one of Murphy’s breakout roles again in 2002. He performed Jim, a bicycle courier who woke from a coma to seek out himself in a post-apocalyptic London after an aggression-inducing virus led to the breakdown of society. Murphy did not return for 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which adopted a unique forged of characters.
The web reacted with a mixture of pleasure and horror on the prospect that the zombie within the 28 Years Later trailer was Cillian Murphy, given it might have confirmed a tragic destiny for the star of the primary movie. However alas, the thriller continues.
In keeping with The Guardian, the zombie in query – aka “Emaciated Contaminated” – is performed by a newcomer referred to as Angus Neill. Neill is an artwork seller and mannequin who was forged by director Danny Boyle as a consequence of his distinctive seems, akin to his 28-inch waist.
Confirmed forged for 28 Years Later embrace Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. This is the official synopsis:
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated author Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set on the earth created by 28 Days Later. It’s been virtually three a long time for the reason that rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island linked to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as nicely.
We first realized that 28 Years Later was formally greenlit again in January alongside plans for the revival to be a trilogy. What’s extra, IGN had beforehand realized that The Marvels and Candyman director Nia DaCosta has been in talks to direct the second film of the trilogy.
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