Director Danny Boyle on how 28 Years Later could be seen as an allegory for Brexit

Director Danny Boyle has said his latest movie 28 Years Later could beryllium seen arsenic an allegory for Brexit.

Boyle's archetypal zombie horror, 28 Days Later, was a groundbreaking movie which revitalised the genre.

Now, his follow-up 28 Years Later gives an penetration into however overmuch of humanity is inactive lasting astir 3 decades aft the deadly Rage microorganism took hold.

"It's a precise ambitious representation of what's happened to the British mainland 28 years aft the archetypal infection," helium tells Sky News.

The movie shows however mainland Europe has chopped Britain off, the state is isolated, with the remaining colonisation near to fend for itself, which Boyle says could beryllium seen arsenic an allegory for Brexit oregon the pandemic.

"There is an constituent of that… fearfulness is simply a fantastic genre due to the fact that you tin enactment transparencies against it, you tin enactment COVID against it… you tin enactment Brexit against it arsenic well, and you work things into it similar that and it's deliciously flexible," helium says.

Central to this caller communicative is simply a caller character, a young lad called Spike, played by newcomer Alfie Williams, whose quality has been raised connected a distant coastal Island with Jodie Comer starring arsenic his mum.

"To get to spot however Danny and his squad enactment connected acceptable and past spot the last product, it's been a dream," Comer says.

Fans won't person to hold rather truthful agelong for the follow-up to this, with a triptych of films planned this clip around. While the 2nd has already been changeable and is owed retired adjacent January, the truly scary happening for Boyle presently is securing the financing to marque the past instalment.

"We're hoping we bash good capable to get the 3rd movie financed... we privation determination to beryllium 3 films ultimately," helium says.

'A fantastic tribute' to Sycamore Gap

Boyle's movie besides features a integer recreation of the Sycamore Gap tree, which the manager says helium hopes volition beryllium "a fantastic tribute" to Northumberland's iconic tree.

Eagle-eyed viewers volition spot the histrion is inactive lasting successful scenes for Boyle's apocalyptic fearfulness contempt being felled successful September 2023.

Boyle explains: "It had already been destroyed by the clip we came to film, truthful we recreated it for the aforesaid reasons that you spot the Queen successful this… each the things that person happened to america successful the past 28 years person not happened."

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As good arsenic forming a portion of people's idiosyncratic lives, arsenic the country of wedding proposals, ashes being scattered and countless photographs, it had already held a spot successful popular culture, featuring successful the 1991 Kevin Costner movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.

It is simply a blink-and-you'll-miss-it infinitesimal successful the film, but Boyle said fixed however overmuch of what they changeable is filmed successful the beauteous Northumbria countryside, to resurrect "one of their astir beauteous icons" was a "real privilege which we felt we couldn't ignore".

"So we've recreated it deliberately to accidental that it was inactive growing… which is simply a fantastic tribute," helium adds.

28 Years Later is retired connected 20 June.