
Thousands now live in the remnants of the small neighborhood, among them Don, who has survived. London’s Isle of Dogs becomes a safe zone, restoring the illusion of infrastructure-complete with running water, electricity, CCTV surveillance, clean living spaces, and even a pub-while armed soldiers and NATO medical staff heavily monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic. Six months after the zombie-like Infected have starved to death and the area has returned to normal, albeit leaving Britain an abandoned wasteland, US troops oversee the resettlement of the otherwise quarantined country. Fresnadillo, working with three other credited screenwriters, turns this co-production between production companies in the UK and Spain into a worthy sequel by reinforcing many of the themes established in the original, while finally expanding the trajectory of the fast-spreading rage virus into a pandemic. Boyle, unable to direct due to other obligations, turns the reins over to Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, whose earlier thriller Intacto earned him mild praise in 2002. Although the gasp-inducing preface resembles Night of the Living Dead in its location, much of the sequel draws from Romero’s later works, specifically Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005) with their respective themes of an ineffectual military and a reconstructed city doomed to collapse once more. Whereas the film’s predecessor, 28 Days Later (2002), is about feeling abandoned in a world devoid of social order or government, 28 Weeks Later is about the opposite feeling of oppressive claustrophobia in open spaces.įollowing Danny Boyle’s superb zombie innovation, 28 Weeks Later once more turns the zombie film into a visceral, accelerated experience with a cynical message about the institutions established to protect us. With seemingly endless space in which to move, he is nonetheless confined between the swarming Infected and his slim chance at escape onto a motorboat. Don escapes out of a window onto the lawn it is a vast field of grass, but he has nowhere to hide. The seething Infected, who are not reanimated corpses but contaminated humans driven by pure hatred in disease form, give chase. Knowing she is doomed and too cowardly to attempt a rescue, Don abandons Alice. Don and Alice try to escape, but several Infected come between the husband and wife. But inevitably, the frenzied Infected, poisoned by rage, smash into the survivors’ temporary haven. Married couple Don and Alice (Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack), who are grateful their children were abroad during the outbreak, have boarded the windows and now, along with several others, keep quiet to not draw the attention of the accelerated zombies outside. Survivors of a viral epidemic have holed up in a small farmhouse on the British countryside. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). “We’ve known each other for that long, stayed in contact throughout the years, met up in different countries and now re-grouped in the best relationship ever, and being the best versions of ourselves for each other.28 Weeks Later opens with a sequence that cannot help but evoke George A. The pair actually met 14 years ago, but she said fate led to their relationship over a decade later.Īlongside a throwback snap, she previously revealed: “14 years in the making… One of us has a skinhead and one of us has a panda’s eyeliner we we’re stealing people’s Sheesh’s at Dubai races drinking shots of baby Guinness’s 2008.

However, just weeks later she sparked a romance with Aaron and they went Instagram official in December last year. She added: “I definitely see settling down and having kids as the next stage in my life, but seeing as I’m single now it makes sense to do this as a kind of insurance.” She explained: “I’m 35 in October and I’m at the age where women start to worry about their biological clock.”

Speaking last summer before she found love with Aaron, Bianca revealed she wanted to “take the pressure off” meeting a new man by freezing her eggs, as she was single at the time. (sic)Īnd a third fan said: “Congratulations to you both.” One follower wrote: “Massive Congratultions B and A!! My heart is full for you both, hope you are feeling ok. The poster also revealed her due date is February 2023, and fans were quick to flood the comments with kind messages. She simply captioned the picture: “We’re having a baby.”

Bianca shared a spoof movie poster designed by her brother Regan Gascoigne which features the parents-to-be in bed with junk food and baby toys around them in a nod to the Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl film.
