Money woes aside, Boyle seems pretty jazzed about the prospect of returning to his infection-riddled vision of the U.K. this June. “I still love an apocalypse, British-style,” he said during his presentation. “I still love the infected. And I still love blowing shit up.”
Per THR, Boyle also teased that fans may “have to wait a little while” to see original 28 Days Later star (and 28 Years Later EP) Cillian Murphy’s much-teased appearance. From the report, it’s unclear if that comment referred to a couple scenes or a couple movies. There was some hullabaloo around Murphy’s rumored cameo around the time the film’s first trailer dropped, as it featured an emaciated infected that looked a hell of a lot like the Oscar winner. Andrew Macdonald, a producer on the film, quickly corrected the record and clarified that that particular zombie was not in fact Murphy, but model and art dealer Angus Neill, who just had similar cheekbones. “[Murphy] is not in the first film, but I’m hoping there will be some Jim somewhere along the line,” Macdonald pretty definitively told Empire at the time. In its own write-up, however, Variety reports that exclusive 28 Years Later footage screened at CinemaCon last night included “glorious closeups of Cillian Murphy’s paper-thin skeleton ravaging the countryside,” so there may be some surprises still in store.
That’s all the more reason to grab a ticket to see the Aaron Taylor Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Ralph Fiennes-led film when it premieres in theaters on June 20. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta, follows next year on January 16.
