Two decades have now gone by since Danny Boyle brought newfound intensity to the zombie horror genre with 28 Days Later.
Similarly, fifteen years have passed since Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s underrated follow-up, 28 Weeks Later, ended with an emphatic cliffhanger depicting the infected entering Paris to wreak havoc on the European continent.
This shocking ending strongly suggested that a third film was on the horizon, presumably a 28 Months Later.
However, it’s now leaning closer to twenty-eight years than twenty-eight months since that heavy-handed denouement, and fans have still not received the promised threequel.
Despite producers, writer, and executives sporadically contemplating the project over the years, it perpetually remains in the uncertain stages of pre-development.
Reasons behind this stagnation are varied, stemming from critical, creative, and corporate entities that cannot seem to properly mesh to finally make 28 Months Later a reality.
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