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EXCLUSIVE: While Danny Boyle is about to return to direct 28 Years Later, the primary movie within the new trilogy based mostly on the long-lasting horror movies Boyle helped launch, Sony Pictures is already lining up the helmer who will direct the second movie on this new reimagined collection. While a deal hasn’t closed but, sources inform Deadline Nia DaCosta is in talks to direct the second a part of the upcoming 28 Years Later trilogy at Sony with Boyle, Garland, Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice producing together with Bernie Bellew. 28 Days Later Cillian Murphy star will exec produce.

While precise dates are unknown sources the plan is for Boyle to direct the primary one later this 12 months with the second movie instantly after the primary shoot which is why the studio is transferring quick to lock in that second director. This means the administrators can get on the identical web page on the place they see the story will whereas additionally bringing their very own distinctive visions for every movie. Garland will pen every installment.

While plot particulars on this new trilogy are imprecise the primary movie 28 Days Later watched as Murphy’s bicycle courier awoke from a coma to find that the world had been overrun with zombies, following the outbreak of a virus. Pic grossed over $82M worldwide and led to manufacturing of 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, on which Boyle and Garland served solely as EPs.

As for DaCosta, the rising star within the director ranks the precise match the franchise is wanting given how impactful her directing model has been particularly along with her horror thrillers like Candyman.

Up subsequent, DaCosta wrote, directed, and produced the MGM Orion Pictures and Plan B movie Hedda, a visceral reimagiation of the famed Henrik Ibsen stage play “Hedda Gabler” starring Tessa Thompson within the title function. Previously, she directed and co-wrote The Marvels starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani, and Candyman, a up to date non secular sequel of the 1992 cult horror traditional of the identical identify for Universal and Monkeypaw Productions. The movie acquired rave opinions and opened to #1 on the field workplace, making DaCosta the primary Black feminine director to open on the prime of U.S. field workplace charts. DaCosta made her function debut with the critically acclaimed Little Woods, which she wrote and directed. 

DaCosta is repped by CAA,  CAA, Entertainment 360, Casarotto Ramsay and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.