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‘28 Years Later Part 3’ Could Be the Zombie Movie of the Century—If It Actually Gets Made

‘28 Years Later Part 3’ Could Be the Zombie Movie of the Century—If It Actually Gets Made

After more than two decades, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland finally reunited for 28 Years Later, the long-awaited third sequel in the 28 Days Later franchise last year. From the outset, the expressed plan was for a trilogy: three movies, beginning with 28 Years Later and The Bone Temple, that would tell the story of Spike (Alfie Williams), the young protagonist who we’ve watched come of age against the backdrop of rage-virus-infected England. And in the next installment, Cillian Murphy would reprise his role as original series lead Jim, apparently still stuck in the quarantined UK, almost thirty years after he woke up in that hospital in a deserted London. It was all setting up a horror blockbuster at a scale we’ve seldom seen in the streaming age. After all, how many genre movies boast the name of a recent Oscar winner on the poster? Such was teased in the prologue of The Bone Temple, when we finally see Murphy on screen again: Jim now lives in an isolated cottage with his teenage …