Sony has won the bidding war for intellectual property rights After 28 yearsa new horror film based on the 2002 zombie classic After 28 dayswhich will reunite the original film’s director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland.
Boyle has been tasked with directing the picture, which is being considered the first in a new trilogy, with Garland set to write the script for each installment. The film’s budget is scheduled to reach $75 million. Plus Boyle and Garland, producers 28 years Among them are Andrew MacDonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures. The latter was a division of the former studio Twentieth Century Fox, which backed the original films. On the awards circuit this year as star Christopher Nolan Oppenheimeroriginal film star Cillian Murphy is on board as an executive producer and may also reprise his role as zombie apocalypse survivor Jim, although it’s very early days on the acting front.
He is credited with breathing new life into zombie films. After 28 days Watch bike courier Murphy wake up from a coma to discover that the world has been overrun by zombies, following a virus outbreak. The pic grossed over $82 million worldwide and spawned a 2007 sequel. After 28 weekswhere Boyle and Garland only worked as EPs.
Boyle comes out pistol, the Sex Pistols miniseries produced and directed by the FX executive. The Jesse Buckley-led version of the horror picture was last seen menGarland is preparing to return to theaters this year with the actor Civil warstarring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and more, arrives in theaters on A24 on April 12.
Sony’s deal news After 28 years It was broken this afternoon by The Hollywood Reporter.