Over two decades after their British horror masterpiece 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland return with 28 Years Later, which is out in cinemas today.<\/p>\n
The third film in the franchise (and first of a new trilogy) follows on from 2007\u2019s 28 Weeks Later, which the duo did not write or direct.<\/p>\n
The sequel concluded with the British survivors abandoning the only safe zone (Canary Wharf\u2019s District 1) on a helicopter bound for France.<\/p>\n
However, the young lad aboard was a carrier of the Rage virus, without turning infected himself.<\/p>\n
The film then ended with zombies sprinting toward the Eiffel Tower in Paris, leaving a cliffhanger that the apocalypse had now spread to mainland Europe.<\/p>\n
Danny Boyle had plans back in 2007 for 28 Months Later to be set in Russia<\/a>, but the film never manifested. Instead, Garland ended up writing a 28 Years Later trilogy and the first film out today starts with a massive plot hole retcon of 28 Weeks Later that\u2019s nothing short of a deus ex machina, so he could focus on his anti-Brexit<\/a> themes. After the film\u2019s 2002 prologue, a body of text explains that the Rage virus spread to France; however, Europe managed to push it back to the island of Great Britain. Quarantining the UK, EU countries now patrol the shores, ensuring no one, dead or alive, can ever leave.<\/p>\n Given Boyle\u2019s previous plans for 28 Months Later and the fact that containing a Rage virus on a land mass spanning a number of continents, it seems very unlikely that Europe could have defeated the sprinting zombies. Yet with 28 Weeks Later being canon, Garland needed a quick ghost in the machine so he could have a story about an isolated Britain nostalgic for its little Englander myths in a post-Brexit<\/a>\/COVID<\/a> storyline. Don\u2019t get us wrong, this writer gave 28 Years Later 5 stars and called it the best film of the year,<\/a> which we stand by, but a plot hole for artistic licence is still a plot hole.<\/p>\n 28 Years Later is out now in cinemas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over two decades after their British horror masterpiece 28 Days Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[80288,80287,16475,80286,80285,16621,802,748,48891,45514,2000,299,5187,1699,19401,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-197936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-28-months-later","9":"tag-28-weeks-later-ending","10":"tag-28-years-later","11":"tag-28-years-later-brexit","12":"tag-28-years-later-plot-hole","13":"tag-alex-garland","14":"tag-brexit","15":"tag-britain","16":"tag-danny-boyle","17":"tag-entertainment-section","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-films-section","23":"tag-great-britain","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114711724282514881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}