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Director Danny Boyle on how 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit
Director Danny Boyle has said his latest film 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit. Boyle's original zombie horror, 28 Days Later, was a groundbreaking film which revitalised the genre. Now, his follow-up 28 Years Later gives an insight into how much of humanity is still standing almost three decades after the deadly Rage virus took hold. "It's a very ambitious picture of what's happened to the British mainland 28 years after the original infection," he tells Sky News. The film shows how mainland Europe has cut Britain off, the country is isolated, with the remaining population left to fend for itself, which Boyle says could be seen as an allegory for Brexit or the pandemic. "There is an element of that… horror is a wonderful genre because you can put transparencies against it, you can put COVID against it… you can put Brexit against it as well, and you read things into it like that and it's deliciously flexible," he says. Central to this new story is a new character, a young boy called Spike, played by newcomer Alfie Williams, whose character has been raised on a remote coastal Island with Jodie Comer starring as his mum. "To get to see how Danny and his team work on set and then see the final product, it's been a dream," Comer says. Fans won't have to wait quite so long for the follow-up to this, with a triptych of films planned this time around. While the second has already been shot and is due out next January, the really scary thing for Boyle currently is securing the financing to make the last instalment. "We're hoping we do well enough to get the third film financed... we want there to be three films ultimately," he says. 'A wonderful tribute' to Sycamore Gap Boyle's film also features a digital recreation of the Sycamore Gap tree, which the director says he hopes will be "a wonderful tribute" to Northumberland's iconic tree. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the tree is still standing in scenes for Boyle's apocalyptic horror despite being felled in September 2023. Boyle explains: "It had already been destroyed by the time we came to film, so we recreated it for the same reasons that you see the Queen in this… all the things that have happened to us in the last 28 years have not happened." As well as forming a part of people's personal lives, as the scene of wedding proposals, ashes being scattered and countless photographs, it had already held a place in pop culture, featuring in the 1991 Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. It is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the film, but Boyle said given how much of what they shot is filmed in the beautiful Northumbria countryside, to resurrect "one of their most beautiful icons" was a "real privilege which we felt we couldn't ignore". "So we've recreated it deliberately to say that it was still growing… which is a wonderful tribute," he adds. 28 Years Later is out on 20 June.
Yahoo
a day ago
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Deadline On The Red Carpet: Aaron Taylor-Johnson On '28 Years Later's Brexit Nod, Danny Boyle Talks 'The Growth' Of Horror, Jodie Comer On 'Manifesting' A Movie Musical & Tom Rothman With An Actor Tip
London's Leicester Square was infected by the rage virus last night as it hosted the world premiere of Danny Boyle's zombie-horror 28 Years Later. Deadline was on the red carpet to speak to the team behind the film, including Oscar-winning director Boyle, stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams and Edvin Ryding, as well as Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, Tom Rothman, who gives us a tip on an upcoming movie that will make its lead into 'a true movie star'. More from Deadline '28 Years Later' Director Danny Boyle On Return To Horror Series & Whether 007 Is In His Future - Crew Call Podcast '28 Years Later' Review: Danny Boyle Delivers Severed Heads And Broken Hearts In His Gory Zombie-Horror Threequel '28 Years Later' Walking To $56M+ WW Opening, 'Elio' Orbiting $50M+ WW As 'Dragon' Looks To Lord U.S. Box Office - Preview You can check out the highlights from our interviews below, which touch on Brexit, parenthood, eccentric characters, upcoming projects ('I can't talk about it,' Taylor-Johnson said with a smile), making movies for the big screen, and the sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. In 28 Years Later, written by Oscar-nominated writer Alex Garland, it's been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory. And now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. 28 Years Later is in theaters on June 20, 2025. Jodie Comer on the 'nuanced' relationship between mother and son in #28YearsLater: 'This film is a beautiful exploration of how we're so shaped by the way in which we're brought up' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 #28YearsLater star Aaron Taylor-Johnson discusses the film's relevance as a metaphor for current affairs: 'Great Britain's quarantine from the rest of the world [in the film] gives the feeling of Brexit' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 #28YearsLater star Jodie Comer discusses taking her award-winning play 'Prima Facie' on tour, doing more horror movies and 'manifesting' to make a movie musical — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 Ralph Fiennes on his 'eccentric' character Dr Kelson in #28YearsLater and how he develops in the following film '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 Director Danny Boyle on how #28YearsLater is a reflection of the world we currently live in and the growth of horror as a film genre — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Aaron Taylor-Johnson discusses his archery skills in #28YearsLater and mentoring his young co-star Alfie Williams on set. 'I felt a real responsibility to mentor him throughout this film experience because I remember what that was like, being a kid on a movie set,' he says — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 Aaron Taylor-Johnson declined answering a question about what he's doing next during the #28YearsLater world premiere. 'I can't talk about it,' he said as he was being escorted away — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 18, 2025 #28YearsLater director Danny Boyle on shooting the film back-to-back with its sequel '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple', which is directed by Nia DaCosta and is set for a 2026 release — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Tom Rothman on Danny Boyle's #28YearsLater and making movies for the big screen: 'You come to Sony, you come to Columbia [Pictures] because you want it on the big screen: high, wide and handsome. That's our business and that's what we deliver' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Edvin Ryding on the kindness of the 'Young Royals' fanbase and playing the tough soldier Erik in Danny Boyle's #28YearsLater — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Tom Rothman on Quentin Tarantino's next movie and how Darren Aronofsky's 'Caught Stealing' will make Austin Butler 'a true movie star' — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Alfie Williams on mastering archery for Danny Boyle's #28YearsLater — Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 19, 2025 Best of Deadline 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series 'Stick' Release Guide: When Do New Episodes Come Out? 'The Buccaneers' Season 2 Soundtrack: From Griff To Sabrina Carpenter
