Why The Wildest Apocalyptic Horror Movie Of the Year Looks Like Nothing Else in Hollywood

Why The Wildest Apocalyptic Horror Movie Of the Year Looks Like Nothing Else in Hollywood

Sony PicturesTimes have drastically changed in the two decades since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland delivered the most gripping apocalyptic horror thriller ever made, and changed the zombie genre forever. When 28 Days Later was released, the zombies had only ever been slow, camcorders were the cutting edge of technology, and the idea of a global pandemic that brought the world’s nations to a halt seemed like something out of science fiction. Now, …

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on '28 Years Later' and how COVID influenced long-awaited sequel

For more than 20 years, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have fielded questions about their 2002 thriller 28 Days Later.

In '28 Years Later,' a zombie pandemic rages on

In “28 Years Later,” director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland return to their apocalyptic pandemic with the benefit of now having lived through one. But recent history plays a surprisingly minor role in this far-from-typical, willfully shambolic, intensely scattershot…

Film Review: '28 Years Later' Sees Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Return to Take the Franchise in a Very New Direction - Awards Radar

Sony Pictures Well, this is something different. You’d be forgiven for assuming that 28 Years Later was simply more of the same from the dormant zombie franchise. The genre that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland revolutionized with 28 Days Later already had a solid but fully expected sequel in 28 Weeks Later. Then, we never got the presumed follow up in 28 Months Later. It turns out, in making us wait, Boyle and Garland have been considering ways to …