Nia DaCosta is in talks to direct the second movie in the new 28 Years Later trilogy.
The filmmaker is set to helm the second installment of the Sony Pictures trilogy in the franchise that started back in 2002 with Danny Boyle’s movie 28 Days Later.
DaCosta is familiar with the horror genre as she helmed the 2021 movie Candyman — a sequel to the 1992 film of the same name — which starred Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris and Colman Domingo.
Boyle will helm the opening film in the new trilogy with original writer Alex Garland returning to pen the script.
28 Days Later sees Cillian Murphy playing a coma patient who wakes up alone in a hospital and finds out that the world has been taken over by zombies after the release of a highly contagious virus 28 days beforehand.
The picture proved popular and was followed by the sequel, 28 Weeks Later, in 2007, although Boyle and Garland were only involved as executive producers on that film.
Murphy recently revealed that he would “love” to make a follow-up to the iconic postapocalyptic horror flick after he did not appear in 28 Weeks Later.
“Oh, certainly for me. I mean, I’d love to. But that’s not an exclusive or anything. There needs to be a script; Danny [Boyle] needs to find the time; and Alex [Garland] needs to feel that there’s more story to tell,” the Oppenheimer star told RSVP magazine.
“But, again, that is a movie I watched with my kids not too long ago, and I feel that one — it’s aged well. Or not aged at all, whatever the correct experience is,” Murphy added.
