Cillian Murphy to return in Danny Boyle’s ’28 Years Later’

nme.com:

Cillian Murphy has been confirmed as returning to the franchise that launched his career, in 2025’s 28 Years Later.News of the new film was first announced earlier this year, with confirmation that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, who helmed the 2002 original 28 Days Later, were both returning to the franchise.Earlier this month, the film was given the official release date of June 20, 2025.

It had already been confirmed to star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell.And now Murphy, who had his breakout role in 28 Days Later, has been officially added to the cast.

He has already been announced for an executive producer role.Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman gave the news to Deadline, who said that Murphy would return “in a surprising way and in a way that grows, let me put it that way.”He continued by saying: “This is Danny at his best, combined with a very commercial genre, like we had with Edgar Wright and Baby Driver.

Sometimes when you put a real signature director into a commercial arena, it elevates it.”2002’s 28 Days Later saw Murphy play the bicycle courier Jim, who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society.28 Years Later is slated to be the first entry in a new trilogy, with Garland set to write and produce all three.