Big Plans For 28 Years Later Trilogy - Danny Boyle Interview

I had the chance to sit down with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle to chat about his new movie 28 Years Later, ahead of the Irish Gala red carpet event!

Here are some of the things we talked about regarding the return to such an iconic universe and his HUGE plans to bring this story full circle!

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Episode Transcript

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(00:22):
Enjoy the show, Danny.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Obviously, this movie brings us back to world that you
helped create all this time before. Did I feel like
picking up, you know, an old conversation or did you
have to look at a completely different standpoint?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You have to carry things, you know, because you are
suggesting with the title that you're in the same universe.
But we wanted to start afresh. Really, we wanted to
cabot cake and eat here. Really, so it's the same infection,
except it's evolved, you know, the viruses mutated or you know,
variants of the merchuse of it. But we wanted to

(00:57):
be in a different place. That was really important. It
the Holy Island. Setting this Causeway Island as a place
to survive, for survivors to have flourished is really important
to it because it allowed us to go. It's not London,
it's not a capital city. You know that image that
you get at the beginning of the first film. It's
a new landscape for that horror to happen in.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Was that difficult because I had a chance to see
it last night and it felt so much the same
but so different. I don't think I've ever had that
cinematic experience where I knew the.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
One of they was in, you knew where you were,
but different.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Every turan was like, oh, I didn't expect that, and
I didn't think I was going to like this, And
so that's what we wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
That's what we were trying to do. Alex and I
were determined to tand and we were very lucky because
Killy Murphy Gin from the first Fill has been involved
in the planning of it, and the plan was not
to use him early on because then it would have
felt too similar, you know, you felt too obviously connected.
You want to give the sense of a journey that's

(01:58):
gonna eventually end up in a place, and that place
is obviously going to be Killer Murphy, so you'll have
a bigger arc back then to the first film. That's
the idea of it.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know how difficult it is to get to that
point because obviously I know we're you know, a quarter
of a century removed, but it seems so well taught
out to the point where I can't help I feel
like since two thousand and two, you guys have been
crafting this way bigger picture.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
No we haven't, but the world has been confirming some
of the ideas in that film.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Obviously the most obvious example is what COVID did to
big cities overnight. That transformation of something looked unimaginable outside
a movie, Suddenly we all had the evidence of it
in our own backyards. So there was that. But there's
also the fact that the the the rage virus, if anything,
as an idea that's become all present. People are much

(02:54):
more intolerant of each other. You know, you get it
because you're looking back twenty three years to make it
the first of all, you think, well, if anything, it's
worse now. People's tempers go from zero to one hundred
much more quickly than they ever did back then. We
did it in a very specific way. It was it
was a sort of sci fi idea. There there was
a small example of it road rage, but it wasn't everywhere. No,
itppears to be everywhere. You know, you got all this

(03:16):
stuff that people are just going mad with each other
over nothing. I blame the phones. You know, it's the
obvious culprit because it's the one thing we've got since
then that has become a tool everyone has. Makes you
feel powerful. You are powerful, so that the discrepancy makes
you feel angering you, you know what I mean. It's
like anyway, So it's nice to do a film that

(03:39):
uses the phones in a way that we use them
for this kind of film. So there's a kind of
metsam in there as well.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
If you could show the Danny Boyle of two thousand
and two a frame from this movie, which frame would
beaten we It is one frame.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's the picture of the Angel of the North in
the countryside, with the countryside growing around the year. It
still remains as a symbol that we've we've been here,
we've actually been here. If it was a moving thing,
it would be when the when the alpha drop drops
down in the train and you spin around the twenty
cameras and he's holding something, so the very scary. Yeah,

(04:19):
that's a great I love that moment. That's the kind
of I'm working very hard to get that moment. Yeah,
you know, you have to do a lot of Oh,
you have to do a lot of stuff to get there,
to get your favorite bits. Does be two? It does
be too a mina.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Thanks Danny, It's been great.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh great, Thanks very much.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
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