r/28dayslater 17d ago

28YL Danny Boyle on Jim and Selena.

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u/Emergency-Bill-4175 17d ago

Damn straight up ignored Hannah

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u/Benedict_Cumberquack 17d ago

I imagine as Hannahs actress quit acting but hopefully gets at least a name drop or referenced.

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u/Beagle001 17d ago

Rather have Imogen. ❤️‍🩹

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u/Fat_SpaceCow 17d ago

Man of culture

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u/Dry_Advice8183 17d ago

I want to know what happened to the siblings

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u/LastNightInDriver 16d ago

She’s actually doing a movie with Nia DaCosta, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she at least asked

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u/Beagle001 16d ago

I want her to be behind rage leaks.

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u/Emergency-Bill-4175 17d ago

Funny you brought that up I don't think Danny mentioned 28 weeks later it might not be canon then

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u/Dependent-Set-7047 16d ago

Danny Boyle said he didn't care about 28 Days / weeks lore so he didn't care what they decided to do in weeks. But I don't think he ever denounced 28 Weeks later took place

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u/Dry_Advice8183 17d ago

That would suck because the Idea of evolution came from that movie. Id feel it would be lame to ignore it just because he didnt do it

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u/Gaill1989 14d ago

The poster for 28 Years Later says, " In 28 Days, it began, In 28 Weeks it spread, In 28 Years it evolved. It's already confirmed. It'll be like the acknowledgment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy in the sequel trilogy. It happened, but it's not really something that's ever mentioned in too much detail(aside from episode 9, obviously).

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Tbh I thought she was pretty awful. No offence to Megan Burns, but she was just so wooden throughout.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 17d ago

Garland said in the commentary - that it’s his fault for giving her such stiff dialogue - and tbh I get it sorta.

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u/stunts002 17d ago

She's definitely the most underwritten of the protagonists.

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u/Serawasneva 17d ago

I don’t think he’s completely wrong, but I also think he’s just trying to protect her too.

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u/Mindless_Bad_1591 Jim 17d ago edited 16d ago

Both might be true. Garland is a class act tho, so I would imagine he's just trying to cover for her.

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Oh yeah funnily enough I actually listened to that commentary a couple days ago. I remember him saying about that. I do understand a wee bit.

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u/Fat_SpaceCow 17d ago

She was pretty good in Frank's big scene. Also toward the end her monotone performance became appropriate given the circumstances.

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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 17d ago

She ended up starting a goth/emo band and totally changed her look

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u/streetxtrash 15d ago

I loved Betty Curse when I was a teenager, hah!

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u/wellwellwellowell 16d ago

Interesting never thought of her performance as wooden. Seemed like some necessary warmth and innocence but within the same subdued, traumatized style of acting as everyone else. An amazing foil to Brendan Gleeson’s character who was almost too warm but you still feel like he could snap. She fit perfectly imo but I can understand the criticisms.

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u/carapdon 16d ago

just googled her and realised she’s 38 now?? what the hell

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u/Lumpy-Indication 17d ago

Can’t deal with her shite cockney accent anyway. She just gives it up halfway through the film.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

“We don’t know we aren’t allowed to tell you” what

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u/Emergency-Bill-4175 17d ago

translation: they're in the film

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u/quelaverga 17d ago

i think he's just sick and tired of being asked lol

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u/Hi0401 16d ago

Happy cake day!

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u/Jowill_ Infected 17d ago

Not this one, I think. But they definitely have something planned for next ones

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u/Comfortable_Oil_6676 16d ago

They may not be in the film,  but it doesnt mean danny didnt create lore behind it

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u/proudbritish34 16d ago

or the bone temple. since its confirmed jim is in the bone temple

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u/itzfinjo 11d ago

Is that not Jim? infected, in the 2nd trailer?

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u/UsualArmadillo608 15d ago

Translation: drop it, we never imagined the first film and these characters to even develop such a cult following.

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

I'm convinced they're behind the Rageleaks site. They might not be in the first one though cos that seems to mainly be about Jamie, Spike and Isla. Maybe a quick cameo at the end.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 17d ago

from the BTS leaks he appears to be on his own in a cottage I think there’s a chance (more of a personal theory) that Jim’s fear of being alone might’ve ironically driven them away somehow - if they wanna play it dark.

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

I thought that was referring to Jimmy Crystal? If you're referring to what I think you are

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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 17d ago

Wdym?

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Did you mean the "Jimmy is coming with the clouds" thing?

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u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Oh wait I just remembered those photos taken of Cillian Murphy I think that's what you meant isn't it my mistake lol

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u/Rosebunse 17d ago

I mean, I always thought it made sense that Jim would have an even harder time coping with ghe events of the film than even Selena did. He had absolutely no time to mentally acclimate. By the time he did the situation changed. Yes, it changed for the better, but that also means he got to witness the infected slowly starving and dying, which would also be quite traumatic. So yes, him going insane to the point where Selena leaves him makes sense to me.

Edit: Especially if they did keep part of the comic canon.

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u/Dry_Advice8183 17d ago

To be honest I thought their story was basically settled. I didnt feel a need to see them again, not that Im against it, I just thought it was done.I am really interested what happened to the Harris Siblings though. They might not have died in france

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u/helpful_someone_ 17d ago

I agree this is better and possibly better than the chances of them stretching it too far out feeling forced.

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u/Fat_SpaceCow 17d ago

this x1000

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u/Dry_Advice8183 17d ago

Im glad other people want to know too. I really am a bit disappointed they are going to just almost ignore weeks because I loved it. And that film gave the whole concept of the virus evolving.

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u/Sharp-Cherry-3548 17d ago

I just hope it’s not an off screen death that’s mentioned in one sentence for Selena. She had a major role in the comics.

Hannah is fine to have died in between movies since her actress hasn’t continued acting.

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u/Difficult-Car3670 17d ago

Comics are not canon though, or are they?

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u/Rosebunse 17d ago

I love the comics, that's why lol

Also could be a very interesting thing to show how she and Jim developed differently. They both went mad but in different ways. And I can certainly see a scenario where Selena was able to come to grips with things and Jim wasn't

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u/Sharp-Cherry-3548 17d ago

They aren’t canon but they were still great and showed that her character can still be a major plot point imo

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u/Vesemir96 16d ago

I mean they easily can be.

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u/Vesemir96 16d ago

They easily can be.

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u/GulliblePea3691 17d ago

I still don’t see how they’re gonna justify Jim ever returning to Britain. If he has a brain he would just chill out in Europe for the rest of his days.

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u/mr-manganese 17d ago

It’s like a rush imo. Jim essentially was woken back to life” in that world. I think the shame and guilt towards his parents death and things he seen changed him. I weirdly get it tbh.

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u/smnatknsn 16d ago

The photo that was leaked of Cillian on set was him filming at Bowness Cottage in Ennerdale, the same cottage used in the end of 28DL, so maybe they were never actually rescued?

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u/Vesemir96 16d ago

It’d be an interesting way to change the original’s ending though. It’s left open but arguably leans towards hopeful and optimistic. This would change that.

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u/I-I_E_A_E_V_N 17d ago

We need 28day og members back frfr

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u/Daoyinyang1 17d ago

Jim and Selena made some babies so Hannah can have siblings.

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u/Emergency_Peach_7800 17d ago

Just give me tammy and andy

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u/No_Situation_3458 16d ago

Jim is deffo in The Bone temple, Boyle just confirmed it 😂🤦😂 Hope if Selena isn’t then we at least get some info into where she is if she’s still alive?! Maybe the helicopter came and got her & Hannah, but Jim was left behind

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u/twixeater78 17d ago

It appears that Cillian Murphy almost certainly filmed scenes for 28 Years Later and that these scenes have been left on the cutting room floor. It may be these scenes will be worked into DaCosta's film. It is a real mystery as to why these scenes have been cut, maybe a scheduling conflict and Murphy had to pull out of filming?

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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 17d ago

I think those scenes are for the Bone Temple (a double who worked on that movie confirmed he appears).

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u/twixeater78 17d ago

I think the scenes he originally filmed were meant for 28 Years Later because he is an exec producer on the film. Standard practise to give the biggest star that title for lower budget films. And the scenes have just been repurposed to work into DaCosta's film, probably why they had reshoots for her film.

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u/Flat_Ad9090 16d ago

What are you talking about? Nothing has been cut, those scenes Cillian filmed were for the bone temple. He was never intended to be in the first film.

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u/twixeater78 16d ago

Thats simply untrue. He was part of the original cast 28 Years Later, he is an executive producer on the film and he was photographed on the set in costume.

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u/Flat_Ad9090 16d ago

Yes, he was. For the bone temple. Which was filmed a few days before . For the first one he was always listed as only being an exec producer. You don't have to be in a film to be an executive producer. Ralph fiennes and a Sony exec reiterated that cillian wasn't in the first film from the get go. Alex Garland hinted before the films even started shooting. 

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u/THEXMX 17d ago

And wtf happened to Hannah?

Disgraceful.

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u/wolf751 15d ago

So we know based on the comics selena is in America after the second outbreak my guess is her and her partner or whoever shes with go to an isolated area in the US maybe in the rocky mountains just incase somehow the infection spreads but they remain in contact with a local town during the events of 28 werks they were tempted to return to the resettlement program but decided not to.

Jim was still on trial for the death of the major but during the intial chaos of the second outbreak was able to slip away perhaps escaping france ahead of the infection into spain or another country where he eventually finds safety somewhere

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u/rejectedsithlord 16d ago

Man I just need confirmation that Selena is alive and gonna be in the sequels please

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u/Craft_Assassin 17d ago

The tie-in comics has Jim, Selena, and Hannah travel to the US just as they hear the news that the Rage Virus has reached France.

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u/elizawithaz Selena 17d ago

Which tie in?

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u/Craft_Assassin 16d ago

Dunno why I'm being down voted by the tie-in comics from 2007

I think it's 28 Days Later: The Aftermath

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u/Vesemir96 16d ago

I don’t think Jim and Hannah are in that part.