The guys over at Latino Review offer a first look at the script for the currently shooting 28 Weeks Later. The follow up to 2002's 28 Days Later picks up erm... 28 weeks after the events of the first movie which told of the outbreak of a viscious rage virus that ravaged the city of London.
The movie centers around a family's return to a London now under US military control. Having been abroad during the outbreak, two children arrive home after having lost their mother to the infection. The rage virus which ravaged the city's people in the first movie has been deemed contained and eliminated, ergo; the rebuilding of the city may begin. Of course, it's never that simple is it? LR spell it out:
"On a passenger plane, we meet 15-year-old DANNY, his 17-year-old sister TAMSIN. They meet DON their 45-year-old father on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport. The family was away when infection first happened and their mother was a casualty. Now they come back to England and their father has a new 29-year-old girlfriend named SCARLETT who obviously is going to have beef with TAMSIN. Scarlett lost her family to the infection."
But before you chalk it up as your typical "family fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic city ravaged by psychotic flesh eating zombies who just won't ever, EVER STOP CHASING YOU!" story... LR promise us some of the same action from the first movie, in addition to some new twists and a fresh angle on the old zombie story:
"The UK has been divided into zones. Green zones which the citizens can navigate and red zones which are off limits. Later, GENERAL WESTMORELAND and PROFESSOR STONE hold a press conference in which we find out that the last of the infected died 28 weeks ago. Apparently, the infected can't survive on it's own or without a new living human host to feed so it supposedly died out.
That is until Danny finds an infected boy at the aquarium in the water. Stone and DOCTOR ROSS take the infected to a laboratory. Because it is the first live specimen, Stone wants to make an antibody.
It isn't far away until all hell breaks loose in England where we see much of the same from the last movie where a bunch of survivors must band together in order to live. The difference between this movie and the first one is the infection itself - how people get it."
They only cover the first act and don't go on to reveal anything about the plot-twist regarding the transmission of the infection but, if we are to believe what's being said, this looks like it may be shaping up to be an solid take on the zombie flick. LR offers up a B- for what they call a "good enough Saturday afternoon matinee".
As for exactly how the infection is going to be transmitted is anyone's guess. Biting? Too old school. Ermmm... Scratching? Too obvious. Ummmm... STI? Well some of the Shaun Of The Dead extras were exceptionally hot. Don't pretend like you didn't notice it too!
