’28 Days Later’ Sequel ’28 Years Later’ Shopped As Trilogy

Deadline has confirmed that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reuniting for 28 Years Later, a new thriller based off the 2002 film about a rage virus that overtakes civilization.

Potential buyers are being approached by WME, which reps Boyle and Garland. The package is a new trilogy based on the world established in the 2002 original (28 Days Later) and its 2007 sequel (28 Weeks Later).

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Boyle is attached to direct the first installment. Garland would write all three. The budget for each movie would be in the $75 million range. Both will produce along with original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures. The latter is a division of former studio Twentieth Century Fox, which originally backed the films.

The Hollywood Reporter first disclosed the news.

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