’28 Years Later’ Set for 2025 Release Date from Sony

The third installment of Danny Boyle‘s 28 franchise is coming. 28 Years Later will launch in summer time 2025, Sony Footage introduced Friday.

The movie, directed by Boyle with a script by Alex Garland, will likely be a follow-up to 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. When information of the movie first made headlines earlier this 12 months, there have been additionally reviews that Boyle and Garland hope to launch a brand new trilogy with this installment.

Boyle and Garland will even produce, with unique producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice returning as effectively, and Bernie Bellew becoming a member of the group. Cillian Murphy can be returning as an government producer. 

Murphy starred within the unique movie, then largely nonetheless unknown as an actor. He performed a bicycle courier who woke from a coma to find the world overrun with a extremely contagious virus that turns people into raging killers. The second movie depicted navy efforts to take care of a secure zone from the virus in London, with two siblings trying to find {a photograph} of their mom.

The unique movie was a shock and worthwhile hit, however extra notably helped to revitalized the zombie horror style, which subsequently galvanized assist for the final 20 years of brain-eating, apocalyptic leisure on the field workplace. World Battle Z, Zombieland, The Strolling Lifeless, and Zack Snyder’s remake of Daybreak of the Lifeless alongside together with his current Military of the Lifeless, all adopted 28 Days‘ path.

Plot particulars for the third installment are nonetheless unknown. The movie will launch in theaters June 20, 2025.