Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Turns out zombies don’t mellow with age.Sony Pictures unleashed an extended look at Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” – the threequel to the director’s groundbreaking 2002 outbreak film – at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Monday night.
The franchise refresh picks up, well, 28 years after the terrifying Rage virus broke out across the globe (pandemics now being shorthand for worldwide audiences).
Man has found a way to survive amongst the flesh-eating zombies, on a remote English island connected to the mainland. It’s guarded, obviously, within in an inch of all lives involved. “I still love an apocalypse,” Boyle said from the stage. “I love killing the infected.
I still love blowing shit up. That’s how my agent describes my best stuff.” Boyle shared a full second trailer exclusively with the exhibitors, which significantly ratchets up the terror from a teaser shared earlier this year.
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