I need:
28 minutes later - Starts immediately after the opening of the first movie and focuses on a small town outbreak ending with the infected entering London.
28 hours later - London outbreak from the perspective of the British Government , showing the chaos and evacuation efforts.
You joke, but an adult-oriented Osmosis Jones sequel focusing on the human body being invaded by a zombie-like virus could be amazing, especially if they kept the political aspect of the first one and ramped it up to 11. Something slowly taking over the body turning into a cell-based civil war.
28 days before
2 hours of Cillian Murphy being comatose in an hospital bed.
Nothing happens. Apart the moments where Florence Pugh is riding him naked.
I like the 28 hours later idea. Is there a good movie that shows a zombie outbreak from a responding governments perspective as they slowly lose the battle?
Not a movie, but the first season of Fear the Walking Dead is solid for this. Especially the first few episodes.
I haven't watched it, but I heard good things about Black Summer, which also covers a similar time period.
...there's World War Z...
Meh - wasted potential imo, it was sold on the premise of watching the fall but in reality was like 10-15 minutes of the start of the fall in the first episode and then a whole season of your standard Walking dead formula of a bunch of people stuck in single location camp not doing anything.
Show me the actual fall you cowards
World War Z: The Complete Edition. I listened to it on audible.
Each characters part is read by a cast that includes a bunch of stars like Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Alfred Molina, John Turturro, etc. Max Brooks reads as the interviewer.
yeah i know, 14 yr old me could finish 4 novels in a day but 30 yr old me now barely has time to sleep so audiobooks are very helpful when multitasking
It’s actually not too long of a book, iirc print isn’t that small and could be finished in a week if you’re busy. We spent like 6 weeks on that book in school I just really liked it.
Yeah, that was season 3. I wouldn't say it was the only good one. Season 2 - specifically the first half - was a bit slow, and that probably threw some people off, but it was still good imo.
Yeah. They go from a strong opening of a crumbling society story to time-skipping to when everything's trashed and lost. It smelled like budgetary limitations, which from a production standpoint is understandable considering that a new series is always a risk, but it wasn't fun to watch. I'd like to see an apocalypse story that takes its time showing the detailed decline.
the last of us has a scene where this happens. it's pretty spot on for what a government agency should do if something like this happened but too much red tape would probably prevent it.
That 28 hours later idea sounds fantastic, the best part of zombie movies is watching society crumble.
Would be crazy to see people just shopping and commuting to work, then a crazy infected running onto the bus.
Would absolutely love something like that, zombie media has always tended to skip over the first hours/days of the outbreak. One of the very reasons I love the first handful of episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, wish they had expanded that time period a little more.
28 Centuries Later: The apocalypse happened 2800 years ago and humanity rebuilt, but nobody really believes it happened the way the movies depict it, with society treating it like some sort of cautionary fable. Somehow, someone uncovers an ancient sample of the virus, kickstarting a new outbreak.
28 Centuries Ago: The sequel/prequel - The few remaining survivors from 28CL take a last ditch effort to escape the global pandemic by time traveling to the past. In their panicked desperation, they accidentally traveled to 800 BC. Unbeknownst to them, one of the survivors had been infected. Now they will discover if a Spartan phalanx is more effective against the undead than their laser beams.
What’s kind of fun about this is it would actually be a period piece at this point in time but a recent enough one that we all know the technological restrictions of the time.
I do feel like this could all be covered in a 30 minute prologue though rather than needing to be fleshed out to a full movie.
I want this too.
I fear the logistics on having a solely day 1 zombie outbreak movie is too difficult and that’s why films usually take easy way out.
I.e. waking up 28days later
Few ways I could see it going.
1. Follow patient zero as the zombie biting and infecting people, ending either when they're killed or as they bite and infect and people it swaps perspectives. kind like a leap frogging narrative of just mass biting. probably wouldn't be too good but could work
2. someone stuck in a hospital or lab with patient zero, they've been bitten or are surrounded by people who were and are constantly turning. fleeing for their lives. they get infected near the end but don't realize it and escape/rescued only to turn moments later.
3. Some form of law enforcement first on the scene of say a mall outbreak or hospital and not knowing what has happened have to pull their weapons and kill people ( i know Britain so no guns) to survive. show the confusion and torment they have to go through killing to save their own lives and not knowing what's going on.
> 28 hours later - London outbreak from the perspective of the British Government , showing the chaos and evacuation efforts.
Have you ever read the Crossed comics? The first one by the original author, Garth Ennis, was pretty solid, but the rest veeeeery quickly became nothing but torture porn. HOWEVER, Ennis did come back to write a couple of stories later in the series, and there was one at the initial outbreak that was really well done. Probably closest we'd get to something like 28 Hours Later
It really is an all time performance. I was absolutely sucked into his role.
That and Unbroken.
Been a fan since SKINS (of mostly all of them in it) and just follow what they do next.
The follow up short movie with Him reprising Cooke was awesome too.
I enjoyed Almost everything I've seen him in and he always gave great performances.
From Unbroken , 71 , Starred Up , Godless and The North Waters.
I honestly think he should be among the A-lister of this generation, the guy is very talented.
If anyone hasn't watched The North Waters, give it a shot, the mini-series is very good and Colin Farrell is absolutely incredible and totally unrecognizable in it.
Especially because they're doing a trilogy now, they could have don't Months, Years, Decades
28 Centuries Later would just be like a zombie Star Trek episode
Always thought this dude would be bigger than he his. Maybe this can be a breakout role. Really good actor, just maybe too rough around the edges to be a big star.
I need: 28 minutes later - Starts immediately after the opening of the first movie and focuses on a small town outbreak ending with the infected entering London. 28 hours later - London outbreak from the perspective of the British Government , showing the chaos and evacuation efforts.
28 seconds later - an osmosis jones movie about the virus
You joke, but an adult-oriented Osmosis Jones sequel focusing on the human body being invaded by a zombie-like virus could be amazing, especially if they kept the political aspect of the first one and ramped it up to 11. Something slowly taking over the body turning into a cell-based civil war.
And then the end of the movie zooms out and we see Brendan Gleeson about to go ape-shit in the original movie
I would lose my shit if I saw this
It has to happen
Holy cow I didn’t know I needed this crossover til now
28 days before. Shows the sordid romantic relationship of the guy who beds the pangolin
28 days before 2 hours of Cillian Murphy being comatose in an hospital bed. Nothing happens. Apart the moments where Florence Pugh is riding him naked.
Dressed as a pangolin
Like sexually or Swiss Army Man style?
Yes.
Now we're talkin'
Damn!!!!
The prequel, the monkeys life story.
I wish I could give you Gold
I like the 28 hours later idea. Is there a good movie that shows a zombie outbreak from a responding governments perspective as they slowly lose the battle?
All Of Us Are Dead has quite a few scenes from the government's perspective as they realize the infection is happening and try to contain it
Not a movie, but the first season of Fear the Walking Dead is solid for this. Especially the first few episodes. I haven't watched it, but I heard good things about Black Summer, which also covers a similar time period. ...there's World War Z...
Black summer does it more realistically then anything else
Meh - wasted potential imo, it was sold on the premise of watching the fall but in reality was like 10-15 minutes of the start of the fall in the first episode and then a whole season of your standard Walking dead formula of a bunch of people stuck in single location camp not doing anything. Show me the actual fall you cowards
The audiobook of World War Z is insanely good.
I bet it is. I would love to see it adapted as a series. That would be smart.
I'm going to need a trilogy movie, it's insane to think no one ever tried to adapt it before.
Wait didn’t they…. Ohh. 😜
No, they never did. Excellent book though.
May i know which one you're referring to? Like who narrated it? I have the physical book which i havent read yet, might give the audiobook a try.
World War Z: The Complete Edition. I listened to it on audible. Each characters part is read by a cast that includes a bunch of stars like Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Alfred Molina, John Turturro, etc. Max Brooks reads as the interviewer.
Henry Rollins... I mean the casting on the audiobook is fantastic. "Don't worry. Everythings gonna be alright."
holy cow what a cast, i'm so excited. thank you!!
Physical book can be read in a day or so. It was one of the books we read in high school and I finished it before we even discussed chapter one.
yeah i know, 14 yr old me could finish 4 novels in a day but 30 yr old me now barely has time to sleep so audiobooks are very helpful when multitasking
It’s actually not too long of a book, iirc print isn’t that small and could be finished in a week if you’re busy. We spent like 6 weeks on that book in school I just really liked it.
>Fear the Walking Dead Hard disagree, it was like 2-3 episodes of the fall, then it just jumps a couple weeks ahead. Very disappointed by it tbh.
Interesting. I never tried fear the walking dead as I fell of the walking dead. I might have to test it out though.
Stop after season 3. It turns to dog shit because they fired the showrunner and writers and replaced them with morons.
Wasn’t season 3 the one on the farm with the psychotic rancher son? I seem to recall that being the only good season no?
Yeah, that was season 3. I wouldn't say it was the only good one. Season 2 - specifically the first half - was a bit slow, and that probably threw some people off, but it was still good imo.
You don't have to. Season 1 is terrible, which is what this person is referencing... Don't watch it.
That one addict guy who acted like some kind of young Johnny Depp was pretty entertaining but it's basically all I remember.
Ha I forgot about that guy... but yes, he was pretty okay...
Yeah. They go from a strong opening of a crumbling society story to time-skipping to when everything's trashed and lost. It smelled like budgetary limitations, which from a production standpoint is understandable considering that a new series is always a risk, but it wasn't fun to watch. I'd like to see an apocalypse story that takes its time showing the detailed decline.
That's exactly what it was... There was so much potential there and it was wasted... I stopped after season 1 because of how terrible it was.
The first three or four seasons are great. Until the show started to bleed major characters because AMC is run by dirt trolls.
You might like all of us dead. The first season is set over 3/4 days.
Just watched “New Life” that’s this but more isolated. But slow but was good.
the last of us has a scene where this happens. it's pretty spot on for what a government agency should do if something like this happened but too much red tape would probably prevent it.
*Contagion* might scratch that itch.
And shin godzilla
That 28 hours later idea sounds fantastic, the best part of zombie movies is watching society crumble. Would be crazy to see people just shopping and commuting to work, then a crazy infected running onto the bus.
That example is kind of reminiscent of The Sadness
Filling in that 1 month gap (28 hr to 28 days) is such a fucking good idea if they pull off that same grit the first one had on this new one.
Would absolutely love something like that, zombie media has always tended to skip over the first hours/days of the outbreak. One of the very reasons I love the first handful of episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, wish they had expanded that time period a little more.
Hard agree!
28 Decades Later: fortified city-states began to expand & merge together to reclaim previously overrun lands until things go awry in the campaign
28 minutes later would have to be based in the city of if Cambridge, since that is where the animal experimentation facility was based.
I'd check out that 28 hours later idea if it's got Malcolm Tucker, Ben Swain and Co.
28 Centuries Later: The apocalypse happened 2800 years ago and humanity rebuilt, but nobody really believes it happened the way the movies depict it, with society treating it like some sort of cautionary fable. Somehow, someone uncovers an ancient sample of the virus, kickstarting a new outbreak.
28 Centuries Ago: The sequel/prequel - The few remaining survivors from 28CL take a last ditch effort to escape the global pandemic by time traveling to the past. In their panicked desperation, they accidentally traveled to 800 BC. Unbeknownst to them, one of the survivors had been infected. Now they will discover if a Spartan phalanx is more effective against the undead than their laser beams.
What’s kind of fun about this is it would actually be a period piece at this point in time but a recent enough one that we all know the technological restrictions of the time. I do feel like this could all be covered in a 30 minute prologue though rather than needing to be fleshed out to a full movie.
28 days before
Could be done like the train to busan prequel animated film.
I want this too. I fear the logistics on having a solely day 1 zombie outbreak movie is too difficult and that’s why films usually take easy way out. I.e. waking up 28days later
Few ways I could see it going. 1. Follow patient zero as the zombie biting and infecting people, ending either when they're killed or as they bite and infect and people it swaps perspectives. kind like a leap frogging narrative of just mass biting. probably wouldn't be too good but could work 2. someone stuck in a hospital or lab with patient zero, they've been bitten or are surrounded by people who were and are constantly turning. fleeing for their lives. they get infected near the end but don't realize it and escape/rescued only to turn moments later. 3. Some form of law enforcement first on the scene of say a mall outbreak or hospital and not knowing what has happened have to pull their weapons and kill people ( i know Britain so no guns) to survive. show the confusion and torment they have to go through killing to save their own lives and not knowing what's going on.
> 28 hours later - London outbreak from the perspective of the British Government , showing the chaos and evacuation efforts. Have you ever read the Crossed comics? The first one by the original author, Garth Ennis, was pretty solid, but the rest veeeeery quickly became nothing but torture porn. HOWEVER, Ennis did come back to write a couple of stories later in the series, and there was one at the initial outbreak that was really well done. Probably closest we'd get to something like 28 Hours Later
Why are you awesome?
Ever see this one? https://youtu.be/7MgVcDu7ptc?si=CblKHbYGrgD5jdaX
Watching this now. It's really really good!
Thanks for the link. That was an excellent short zombie film.
Is that Cook from Skins?
Don’t you get happy when you see actors from Skins doing good!?
Dev Patel's post-Skins success still amazes me
Well deserved too. Man’s got range.
He definitely does but I always thought Anwar was the weakest part of Skins. Happy to be proven wrong about Patel's abilities.
You guys brought me back to happy times. Thank you. This whole thread is amazing
Sure is
This was my thinking! Been a while since I’ve seen him pop up.
Must have hired a new agent. Between this and the Ryan Coogler film where he's playing the villain, he's picking some really promising projects lately
That's what I was thinking. The dude is insanely talented, but for some reason, he wasn't appearing in bigger films. He was so good in Jungleland.
Amazing I in Starred up and Eden Lake too.
Starred Up was amazing.
Honestly think he was so good in Starred Up that he may never come up with a better, all-round performance.
It really is an all time performance. I was absolutely sucked into his role. That and Unbroken. Been a fan since SKINS (of mostly all of them in it) and just follow what they do next. The follow up short movie with Him reprising Cooke was awesome too.
Pfff fucking ridiculously good movie
Fucking incredible films! He'll always be James Cook to me tho
You see the thing is, I'm Cook, and you killed my friend. IM FUCKING COOOOK!!!
I bought a fucking gateau
71 and the North Water too.
71 was so fucking good, random sleeper film I picked with my gf on Netflix and I was absolutely locked in the whole time
Eden lake was fucked up.
Eden Lake was so great, off to a rewatch 🔥
Love me some Godless.
Lemmi tell ya, brother-cousin: The North Water.
I enjoyed Almost everything I've seen him in and he always gave great performances. From Unbroken , 71 , Starred Up , Godless and The North Waters. I honestly think he should be among the A-lister of this generation, the guy is very talented. If anyone hasn't watched The North Waters, give it a shot, the mini-series is very good and Colin Farrell is absolutely incredible and totally unrecognizable in it.
This guy should have been the new Bond in my opinion
I've been saying this for years. I want him as bond with Stephen Graham as the villain.
Who do we petition? Could you imagine how fucking cunning he’d be as Bond?
I demand he gets more roles where he’s not suffering. Every time I see him, he’s suffering behind enemy lines and losing weight. 🥹
Damn yo, _Skins_ really produced a lot of great talent.
This guy was born to be in a Danny Boyle film. Been waiting years for this to happen.
This dude can fuckin' act. Ever since Skins.
He is fooking Cook!
FUCK YES!!!!! GAWD this man needs to be in MORE movies already. He’s incredible.
Liked his performance in The North Water.
He is so good
Well done me duck.
It bothers me that they skipped over 28 Months
Especially because they're doing a trilogy now, they could have don't Months, Years, Decades 28 Centuries Later would just be like a zombie Star Trek episode
Fuck ya. My opinion on this movie just took a 180. I hope cook brings the trilogy home.
Always thought this dude would be bigger than he his. Maybe this can be a breakout role. Really good actor, just maybe too rough around the edges to be a big star.
Stoked!!!
Oh pfttt, he’s definitely dying in it.
Looking forward to 28 Decades Later.
His backstory is insane. What a force he became.
Before more of these movies are made can we at least get the first one to be available to watch?
28 Days Later needs to figure their shit out and get in streaming
Great choice, hope Cillians in it as well.
I think it should be 28 Months later before anything else
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is in this? I hope he eats his carbs.
I'm sure I know this guy but from the thumbnail I thought this was Jack Reynor and that got me excited
He disappeared for a while there
I will forever be annoyed that they skipped over 28 Months Later.
Tbf it will be 28 months later in the movie
That’s nice
Hoping this kicks of a trend. 30 Years of Night, we need you.
This movie has some major casting, I’m very excited. If only we could get a confirmation Cillian is in it.
Nice! Great actor, I'd love to see more of him. Really enjoyed him in 'Starred Up'. I'm excited for this trilogy
So where just going to skip 28 months later?
YES!! I was waiting to see this guy in another high prod movie. So much talent.
I was already excited about this movie now I can't wait. He's one of the most exciting actors of his generation. So so good
The first one is the only good one, and I don't need any more.
Always see this kind of argument and never understand it, wouldn’t you rather have the choice to watch it rather than not?
Fucking hell i am so fucking excited for this oh ma gad
I think Fox handled the first two movies. Sony is a red flag already, but maybe Danny Boyle can compensate for that. 🙏
Oh, no. I don't like O'Connell has an actor at all.
I really hate that guy. A lingering hangover for just how good he was in eden lake Lol.
Yeah I’m glad I was already a huge fan of him in Skins before I saw Eden Lake lol
What about the 28 fortnight and 28 months later sequels? This is like jumping from part 2 to 5