Like the undead it's hard to keep any good (and sometimes bad) horror franchise down for long, even one that was kind of on the margins 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later. For at least six years Danny Boyle has teased a return to the "zombie" thriller (they aren't really zombies), after directing the first chapter then passing the torch to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. And after all this time it appears that Boyle, along with screenwriter/producer Alex Garland, may finally have a plan to bring the franchise back from the dead.
Garland spoke with IGN while doing press for his sci-fi film, Ex Machina, and revealed that talks with Boyle about a third chapter in the zombie series have gotten serious...
Garland: “We’ve got an idea. Danny [Boyle] and [producer] Andrew [Macdonald] and I have been having quite serious conversations about it so it is a possibility. It’s complicated. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s complicated, which are boring so I won’t go into, but there’s a possibility.”
Both Garland and Boyle are likely to stay in producer roles as they were last time. He also says the expected title of 28 Months Later is probably what they'll be sticking with, although that hasn't been confirmed. 28 Days Later followed a man (played by Cillian Murphy) who woke up to discover that a virus had turned much of human population into fast-moving zombie-ish creatures. The sequel 28 Weeks Later centered on an attempt by the military to repopulate part of London.
