One of the more interesting projects in the works right now is Danny Boyle’s trilogy of films that will revive his “28 Days Later” franchise.
Boyle directs the first and Nia DaCosta directs the second film in this trio of new movies which are budgeted around $75 million each. Ralph Fiennes is one of the stars of the film alongside the likes of Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman and a brief appearance by Cillian Murphy.
Out promoting his work in Edward Berger’s pope election thriller “Conclave,” Fiennes has seemingly spilled a bunch of story details about the Boyle film during a chat with Indiewire.
Asked about the project, he confirms “its three films, of which two have been shot” and then reveals he plays a ‘good doctor’ in the film before offering a lengthy synopsis:
“Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities.
It centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain.
But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.”
The first film, “28 Years Later,” began shooting in May and wrapped in July and was reportedly shot with a “bunch of adapted iPhone 15s”. The second film, “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” began filming in August in North Yorkshire.
Fiennes also has the film “The Return” hitting cinemas in December. In that film he plays Homer’s Odysseus in a story focusing on the character’s return to Ithaca after 20 years at sea.
