“28 Years Later” planned for 2025 by Sony

Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later

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The third part of Danny Boyle 28 the franchise is coming. 28 years later will be released in summer 2025, Sony Pictures announced Friday.

The film, directed by Boyle with a screenplay by Alex Garland, will be a follow-up to the 2002 film. 28 days later and the years 2007 28 weeks later. When news of the film made headlines earlier this year, it was also reported that Boyle and Garland were hoping to launch a new trilogy with the film.

Boyle and Garland will also produce, with original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice returning, and Bernie Bellew joining the group. Cillian Murphy also returns as executive producer.

Murphy starred in the original film, then still largely unknown as an actor. He plays a bicycle courier who wakes up from a coma to find the world invaded by a highly contagious virus that turns humans into rabid killers. The second film depicts military efforts to maintain a safe zone against the virus in London, with two siblings searching for a photo of their mother.

The original film was a surprise, profitable hit, but more specifically helped revitalize the zombie horror genre, which subsequently galvanized support for the past two decades of apocalyptic, brain-eating entertainment at the box office. World War Z, Zombieland, The Walking Dead, and Zack Snyder’s remake of Dawn of the Dead with its recent army of the deadeveryone followed 28 days‘ path.

Plot details for the third installment are still unknown. The film will be released in theaters on June 20, 2025.