Danny Boyle’s latest film, Slumdog Millionaire, is a moving bit of brilliance, a film that really earns its heart-warming ending. It’s a movie that’s filled with a lot of hope. So maybe he’s ready to get a touch hopeless next – he tells SciFi Wire that he’s considering directing 28 Months Later, the second sequel to 28 Days Later, himself.
“I’d certainly like to,” he said at the Slumdog junket. “I feel the idea is quite a strong idea, and it could well involve directing it. Yeah, absolutely.”
Boyle was actually very involved with 28 Weeks Later, to the point of shooting the opening sequence himself (it’s the best part of the movie. Everything after that is downhill). I’m interested in hearing what the ‘strong idea’ is, since the ending of Weeks essentially left it open to just being a global pandemic zombie movie.
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Say what you will about 28 Weeks Later, it didn't let anyone off the hook. It was willing to kill any of the characters even the typical hero/survivor.
I dont understand how Fresnadillo went from Intacto to 28 Weeks Later. Intacto is quite good, but compared to 28WL it's fucking The Godfather II, naah'mean? Pickin up what I'm throwin' down?
Wow, two-week old news. bang up job, fatboy.
I wondered at the time why the opening sequence was so much stronger than the rest of the movie. Makes sense.
Couldn't make it through 28 Weeks Later. More like 28 WEAKS Later. huffhuff
He will be involved in some way, if not directorial. I met the man himself yesterday at his talkcinema screening of Slumdog Millionaire at lincoln center, which was phenomenal by the way and he said the film is being financed under three stipulations. I remember him saying there must be a weird or surprising twist somewhere in the film. He was very adamant about the financiers wanting this overall. I can't remember the other 2 at the moment.
He was very cool guy, insanely modest and very polite. He was wearing brazilian green-and-yellow sneakers with a plaid shirt whilst everyone was dressed to the T with very nice suits. Also met Dev Patel and the Slumdog's writer, both very nice people. I wish that film the best and hope the MPAA, who awarded the film a very undeserved R, rots in cinema hell.
I always wondered. The first ten minutes of 28 WEEKS LATER was one of best pieces of filmmaking in 2007.
This is awesome! (O')Boyle rules!!
For some reason, I enjoy 28 Weeks Later more than Days. I think Days is a better made movie, but I lose interest in it once they get to the mansion with the crazy soldiers. Up until that point, I think it's fantastic. Weeks, however, just never let up, so it didn't feel like it had any moments like that mansion sequence. Anyway, I'm all for more sequels to this. Keep 'em coming. At this point, I welcome any horror franchise that isn't fucking SAW.
28 weeks later is decent sequel with some great moments mixed in with some not so great stuff (jaws the revenge daddy zombie showing up randomly). Devin's just pissy because a) he's a fat asshole and b) the film didn't turn out to be what he expected from a 28 days later sequel.
Both 28 __later flms were great. Bring on another as long as it follows suit to the others.
More teleporting Daddy Zombies!! Preferably played by incredibly well respected British character actors to give a veneer of intelligence and thoughtfulness to the proceedings.
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