![]() ![]() “There is something absolutely similar between a virus and a human being. “That’s something I really loved about the story,” says Fresnadillo. Don (Robert Carlyle), who survived the initial outbreak, and his young son (Mackintosh Muggleton) and daughter (Imogen Poots), who were safely abroad, are reunited in a safe zone on the Isle Of Dogs. The film picks up with the US military overseeing Britain’s resettlement after the virus has burned itself out. But when he had the idea to tell the story through the experiences of one family, he was hooked. “Danny said, ‘We need you because we love Intacto and we want somebody to introduce something new in the story.’”Īs it was, Fresnadillo was initially reluctant to take on the project, being neither interested in sequels nor horror movies. “They were trying to bring fresh eyes to this landscape,” says Fresnadillo. “I tried to persuade Cillian Murphy to come back as an infected, but he wouldn’t,” Macdonald laughs, adding that Boyle never ruled himself out of directing, “but it was just never going to happen because he was making Sunshine.” Although none of the original cast return, the blood-hopping virus that spawns acute anger management issues does. “Danny’s line has always been that to have a successful business in this country, you need to embrace sequels,” says Macdonald. The sequel to 2002’s viral-nightmare horror 28 Days Later is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a Spanish filmmaker with one credit to his name (albeit an extremely good one, the classy thriller Intacto) who Boyle hand-picked as his replacement. “And nobody else could direct that /except/ Danny.”Ģ8 Weeks Later, however, is a different matter. ![]() “The sequel that Danny and I should do is obviously Porno,” producer Andrew Macdonald tells Uncut, referring to the Trainspotting follow-up that he and director Danny Boyle are asked about with a frequency bordering on national obsession. Zombies stalk the streets of London once more in viral-nightmare horror sequel 28 Weeks Later Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Robert Carlyle, Andrew Macdonald Uncut That may not be a fundamental fear, but it’s a timely one.This text is replaced by the Flash movie. Oh, and of sacrificing freedom in the name of security. The movie taps into fundamental fears: of having our safe lives upended of not being able to protect our loved ones of monsters hiding in the dark. Like the best horror movies, 28 Weeks Later is primal itself. Soon the military falls back on a kill-them-all policy, forcing a handful of citizens – including Don’s kids – to flee from both the infected and the soldiers. When the virus breaks out again, the quarantined area quickly devolves into a war zone, with snipers having to choose between zombies and “friendlies” in an instant. New director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo never pushes the political points he just lets them arise naturally out of the terror. Don is there, reunited with his two children, and they begin to establish a new life which eerily resembles that of war-scarred Iraqis currently living under an American military presence. The film eventually jumps 28 weeks ahead, when an American-led NATO force has wiped out the “infected” and begun resettling a quarantined section of London. Without giving too much away, I’ll just say that Carlyle’s Don manages to survive, though he now carries with him an almost unbearable shame and guilt. ![]() A husband and wife (Robert Carlyle and Catherine McCormack) are holed up with a group of other survivors in a country cottage, and before the title credit even rolls we get a gruesome distillation of the zombie movie that started it all: 1968’s Night of the Living Dead. ![]() The movie’s opening takes us back into the midst of the chaos, when a “rage virus” has transformed most of England’s population into bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs. 28 Weeks Later barely gave you a chance to breathe and its sequel knocks the wind out of you right from the start. ![]()
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