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Matthew Cooper

Danny Boyle confirms a third 28 Days Later movie is on the way

He's just released his latest movie titled 'Yesterday' about the music of The Beatles but the Bury filmmaker has already confirmed a third 28 Days Later movie is on the way.

28 Days Later was released in 2002, directed by Danny Boyle and starred a young Cillian Murphy.

The script was written by Alex Garland, who wrote The Beach and has since directed Ex Machina and Annihilation.

A sequel - 28 Weeks Later was released five years later where Boyle worked as an executive producer.

Speaking to The Independent, Boyle said that he’s teaming up once more with screenwriter Alex Garland and while details are scarce it's thought it could take place 28 Months after the original (shock).

Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis with Himesh Patel and Lily James on the set of Yesterday (© Universal Pictures)

This isn't the first time the idea of a third movie has been bandied about. Back in 2015, Garland told IGN “We’ve just started talking about it seriously.

“We’ve got an idea. Danny [Boyle] and [producer] Andrew [Macdonald] and I have been having quite serious conversations about it so it is a possibility. It’s complicated.

"There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s complicated, which are boring so I won’t go into, but there’s a possibility.”

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He added: “It’s more likely to be 28 Months than 28 Years. 28 Years gives you one more place to go. 28 Decades is probably taking the p*ss.”

Last summer Danny Boyle departed as the writer for Bond 25, which is now being handled by Cary Fukunaga - the man behind HBO's True Detective.

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