Alex Garland never thought about directing the 28 Years Later trilogy.
Alex Garland never thought about helming the 28 Years Later trilogy himself
The 55-year-old scribe reunited with his 28 Days Later co-writer and director Danny Boyle, 68, for the upcoming horror flick and its two sequels, though has now revealed he never considered helming the 28 Years Later himself as he decided he was “sort of done with directing”.
Speaking with ComicBook.com about whether he wanted to direct 28 Years Later, Garland said: “No. I was certainly, at that point, sort of done with directing and wanted to write for other people.
“[That] was one thing, but also, even if Danny hadn’t wanted to do it … I think if Danny hadn’t wanted to direct it, that probably would have just ended it at that point. And I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to step in and, take that role.”
Garland – who made his directing debut with 2014’s Ex Machina and has recently helmed films like Civil War and Warfare – added 28 Days Later was “the product of lots of people working together”, which he insisted had to be the case for the 28 Years Later trilogy.
He explained: “It just wasn’t the dynamic by which the original film was made.
“And the original film was the product of lots of people working together. Cast, crew and sort of broadly… But within it was some kind of interaction between me and Danny. And that had to be true for this one as well.”
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