This week’s eye-catching 28 Years Later trailer featured a zombie that seemed prefer it may very well be Cillian Murphy reprising his function from the primary movie. But it seems it’s truly an artwork supplier director Danny Boyle talent-spotted.
A quick shot within the trailer reveals an extremely skinny zombie stand up from the bottom, a member of the undead who bears a putting resemblance to Murphy. The Oppenheimer star is down as govt producer of 28 Years Later and confirmed to reprise his function, however, as one Sony govt has teased, “in a shocking manner and in a manner that grows.”
28 Days Later was one in all 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 could have confirmed a tragic destiny for the star of the primary movie. But alas, the thriller continues.
According to The Guardian, the zombie in query – aka “Emaciated Infected” – is performed by a newcomer referred to as Angus Neill. Neill is an artwork supplier and model who was forged by director Danny Boyle because of his distinctive appears to be like, similar to his 28-inch waist.
Confirmed forged for 28 Years Later embody Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. Here’s 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 planet created by 28 Days Later. It’s been nearly three a long time because the 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 effectively.
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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