Interview With "28 Years Later" Director Danny Boyle

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It has been 23 years since the release of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's genre re-defining film "28 Days Later," which has received quite a devoted following over the years. Now, the director and writer have reunited to deliver "28 Years Later," a post-apocalyptic horror film that continues from "28 Weeks Later" (2007) and stars a new cast of characters played by Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, and Jack O'Connell. Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle has also returned to shoot the film, predominantly using the iPhone (maintaining a consistent look with how audiences experienced the first Canon XL1 digital video-shot film in 2002), and it will kickstart a new trilogy of films with "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" being directed by Nia DaCosta, to come next. After viewing the first 28 minutes of the film, Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle was kind enough to spend some time in the Sony offices in New York speaking with me about his work and experience making the anticipated sequel, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters on June 20th by Sony Pictures. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director of 28 years later, Academy Award winner, Danny Doyle.
0:09.8	Wait, sit here.
0:11.1	Sit here.
0:11.3	Auntie, what's going on?
0:12.8	Do me, sit still.
0:13.7	Keep quiet and do not move from the spot. First of all, as I said, big, big fan.
0:30.7	Like, your films are part of the reason why I felt in love what cinema, you know,
0:34.7	when I saw Transpotting.
0:35.9	It's like my mind exploded. Oh, wow.
0:38.3	And 20 days later, like, I had never seen a zombie film quite like that before.
0:44.3	Or just a film, like, they like that in general.
0:46.3	I guess the first question that everyone's going to be wondering is, why did this stay so long?
0:52.3	Because, you know, I know this has been in development now for
0:55.5	many, many, many, many years. Yeah. And of course, the industries have gone through a lot of change
1:00.5	and, you know, there's been strikes in the pandemic and so many different things that have happened.
1:04.7	But like, what would you say was like, was it the story or was it financing? What was the thing
1:09.1	that made it so difficult for it to come together?
1:11.2	I think we didn't...
1:12.7	It's kind of weird.
1:14.5	It's kind of...
1:15.1	You sort of go off and...
1:17.5	Especially when you do something very intense.
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