‘28 Years Later’ Director Explains Cillian Murphy’s Absence

We’re only some weeks away from the discharge of 28 Years Later, and the director of the movie has lastly shed some mild on the way it connects to the unique. After not returning in any capability to work on the controversial sequel, 28 Weeks Later, each director Danny Boyle and scribe Alex Garland are again to jot down and direct 28 Years Later, the legacy sequel to the hit 2002 horror movie. Although it was first reported that Cillian Murphy would reprise his function as Jim within the movie, this has since been debunked regardless of his continued involvement as a producer. During a current Q&A hosted by ScreenRant at an early displaying of 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle was requested the way it connects to the unique movie and what occurred to Jim (Murphy) and Selena (Naomie Harris):

“So, it’s independent from the first film, but it’s still the same apocalypse 28 years later as it was for Cillian Murphy in the first film and Naomie Harris. But this is 28 years later, and we don’t know what’s happened to them [Jim and Selena]. I’m not allowed to tell you, but these two are more than worthy stand-ins.”

While it does come as a little bit of a shock that Boyle allegedly doesn’t know what occurred to Jim and Selena, there may be one other approach of this. Even although neither is anticipated to look within the movie, it’s doable that 28 Years Later will certainly reply the query about what occurred to them, and Boyle simply doesn’t need to spoil it for everybody. They’ve made it this lengthy with out freely giving something too massive, so it might be fairly a spill if he simply introduced to the world that Jim was lifeless and never going to look within the franchise in any respect, mere weeks earlier than launch. Fans will proceed to carry out hope that Jim and Selena may have a job to play till their dying is explicitly confirmed.

Who Stars in ‘28 Years Later’?

Murphy and Harris could not star within the movie, however Boyle and Garland have recruited a robust roster of expertise to inform the subsequent chapter of their contaminated story. Leading the cost is Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who lately led Sony’s Kraven the Hunter film. Jack O’Connell, who lit the world on hearth together with his work in Sinners, may even star within the movie, together with current Oscar nominee and Conclave veteran Ralph Fiennes. Jodie Comer, who lately featured in The Bikeriders, may even star within the movie alongside Emma Laird, Erin Kellyman, Kim Allan, Edvin Ryding, Alfie Williams, Robert Rhodes, Gordon Alexander, and extra.

28 Years Later infects theaters in every single place on June 20. Stay tuned to Collider for extra updates and protection of the movie forward of and after its launch.

Source: ScreenRant