This week horror followers bought a primary trailer for one of many style’s most anticipated upcoming releases: 28 Years Later, the long-awaited subsequent installment in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s zombie saga. It reveals a world nonetheless in post-apocalyptic chaos many years after the useless started strolling, and it appears suitably terrifying. But one fast shot within the trailer bought sharp-eyed viewers speaking: was that 28 Days Later star and newly minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy making a franchise return as Jim… as a near-skeletal corpse?
Turns out it’s not Murphy, who’s executive-producing 28 Years Later however has but to be confirmed for an on-screen look (although the solid is stacked even with out him: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’ Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes). According to the Guardian, the zombie within the trailer is performed by Angus Neill—and the publication even tracked the artwork supplier and mannequin right down to get the complete story.
Apparently Neill was “talent-spotted by Boyle, who was a lot struck by his distinctive appears.” Going by the modeling profile linked by the Guardian, Neill has a naturally gaunt look—you thought Murphy had sharp cheekbones?—so you possibly can form of see how Boyle would have a look at him and assume “zombie!” Though there are clearly prosthetics and particular results make-up concerned, Neill does make the right canvas for an expressive ghoul. (Sony or anybody concerned in creating 28 Years Later has but to touch upon Neill’s position.)
Speaking to the Guardian, Neill stated, “Danny advised me he’d at all times had me in thoughts for the position. So we met up, hit it off, and I agreed to participate … On set he has a unprecedented capability to hypnotize you, and dealing with him on the movie was a really, very intense expertise.”
Here’s the official synopsis for the movie: “It’s been nearly three many years for the reason that rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island related to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as properly.”
Murphy’s Jim may nonetheless seem in 28 Years Later—it might match into the continuity of the story, and it might be an exquisite hyperlink again to the primary movie, which was launched in 2002 and ushered Murphy into stardom. However, with 28 Years Later deliberate as the primary in a brand new trilogy, there’s loads of time forward to see what Jim’s been as much as (presumably, a whole lot of zombie slaying) since we noticed him final.
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