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Nick Staniforth

28 Years Later director Danny Boyle confirms he won't go back to James Bond: "That ship has sailed"

Daniel Craig in new James Bond movie No Time to Die.

This week, we're going to head back to Danny Boyle's vision of a post-apocalyptic world with 28 Years Later, over two decades since he introduced it to us with the groundbreaking horror, 28 Days Later. One franchise that he has no plans to revisit, however, is that of secret agents and global threats, when he came close to dishing out the final mission of Daniel Craig's James Bond.

Before Cary Fukunaga got the gig of dealing with 007's swan song with No Time To Die, Boyle was in line to direct the project before creative differences saw it fall apart. Now with a monumental movie franchise making its way over to Amazon, Business Insider asked if there was any chance of him revisiting it if the offer was there. While some fans might hope he'd say 'never say never' to the prospect, Boyle confirmed it as, well, never.

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