Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes have signed on to Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later.

The continuation of the "28 Days Later" franchise will be released in theaters globally by Sony Pictures. "28 Days Later" was released in 2002 and starred Cillian Murphy, then largely unknown. Boyle directed the feature, while Alex Garland wrote. A sequel, "28 Weeks Later", was released in 2007.

Danny Boyle is once again directing, after helming 2002’s 28 Days Later, which centered on a man (Cillian Murphy) who wakes up in the hospital to find the United Kingdom overtaken by a zombie plague. Civil War filmmaker Alex Garland, who penned the script, is back to write what is intended to be a trilogy of films for Sony. The original feature helped revive the zombie genre and already had a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which only nominally involved Boyle and Garland as executive producers.

Cillian Murphy, who recently won the lead actor Oscar for Oppenheimer and starred in the original 28 Days Later, returns to the 28 fold as an executive producer.

28 Days Later grossed $84.7m worldwide and starred Murphy as a man who awakens from a coma to discover the UK has been ravaged by a rage-inducing virus.

28 Weeks Later followed efforts by the US Army to help repopulate the UK after the initial outbreak and earned $65m at the global box office.

Source: Press Release