It may only be 23 years since audiences were first wowed by director Danny Boyle’s genre-shattering post-apocalyptic tale 28 Days Later, but the upcoming sequel 28 Years Later can’t arrive fast enough. So who’s gonna quibble if Boyle and writer Alex Garland shaved five years or so off to get us there?
And while 28 Years Later looks to maintain the unique and at times severe visual style of its predecessor, which shook zombie fans and mainstream audiences alike to their core with fast-running “infected” and a shot-on-digital-video aesthetic, the new film also carries a scope and grandeur that belies its predecessor’s more humble origins. I watched the first 30 minutes of…