How to watch ’28 Days Later’ in the UK
nme.comDanny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is one of the most celebrated classics of modern horror cinema, but where can UK viewers watch the film?
Read on for all the info.The 2002 film was written by Alex Garland, who went on to pen the screenplays for films such as Sunshine, Dredd and Never Let Me Go, and eventually direct Ex Machina, Annihilation and Civil War.Boyle followed up his work on Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary and The Beach, and was credited for reinvigorating the zombie genre, even if the creatures in the film are not technically the undead.The film is set amid an outbreak of a high contagious, aggression-inducing virus, with society having broken down.
Cillian Murphy stars as Jim, a bicycle courier who fell into a coma before the outbreak and wakes to find London seemingly entirely deserted.
Naomie Harris plays a chemist with supreme determination to survive, and the two decide to travel to Manchester with cab driver Brendan Gleeson and his daughter Megan Burns.The film spawned a sequel 28 Weeks Later in 2007, and a third film 28 Years Later has reportedly been shot now, entirely on a mobile phone, with a provisional release date of June 2025.
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