Cult traditional zombie film 28 Days Later has a digital launch date, introduced by Sony per week after the debut trailer for sequel 28 Years Later went viral.
After an extended interval of unavailability on-line, Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later will probably be obtainable to lease or purchase digitally tomorrow, December 18, 2024. Expect it to pop up on the likes of Prime Video from then.
28 Days Later was one in all Oppenheimer star Cillian 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 special solid of characters. But he’s govt producer of 28 Years Later, and has a thriller function within the movie (no, he isn’t the zombie within the trailer).
“Go again to Day 1…,” reads the official blurb hooked up to this re-release of 28 Days Later.
Animal rights activists free a bunch of contaminated chimpanzees to horrifying outcomes on this speculative sci-fi horror effort from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. Waking from a coma in a abandoned London hospital 28 days later, bicycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) takes to the abandoned metropolis streets in a state of mystified confusion.
Joining forces with one other group of survivors following a terrifying encounter in a seemingly deserted church, Jim quickly learns the reality behind the abandoned streets and the menacing creatures that lurk within the shadows.
It’s quickly revealed that the chimpanzees had been harboring a lethal virus that sends its victims right into a livid, murderous rage, and within the days following the preliminary publicity, your complete inhabitants was practically worn out as a result of ensuing homicidal rampage. Is there nonetheless a glimmer of hope for humanity — or has the lethal “rage” virus discovered its strategy to international shores and contaminated your complete planet?
Boyle returns as director for 28 Years Later, due out June 20, 2025, as does scriptwriter Alex Garland. We first discovered 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 discovered that The Marvels and Candyman director Nia DaCosta has been in talks to direct the second film of the trilogy.
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