Times have drastically changed in the two decades since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland delivered the most gripping apocalyptic horror thriller ever made, and changed the zombie genre forever. When 28 Days Later was released, the zombies had only ever been slow, camcorders were the cutting edge of technology, and the idea of a global pandemic that brought the world’s nations to a halt seemed like something out of science fiction. Now, that science fiction has become reality.
To say the COVID-19 pandemic played a huge part in getting Boyle and Garland back to make the long-awaited sequel 28 Years Later is not an exaggeration. “Obviously one of the things we thought about was about the way that COVID, when it first hit us all and we kind of panicked into the behavior we were told to do... led us to think [how] we began to get accustomed [to that life],” Boyle tells Inverse.
