Cillian Murphy Confirmed to Return to ’28 Years Later’ Film Series from which he started his career.

News of the new film was first announced earlier this year and that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, who worked together on the film, will return to direct. “28 Days Later” of 2002.

A sequel followed in 2007, but Cillian Murphy was not involved and Danny Boyle was only a producer.

Earlier this month, it was announced that the film will hit theaters on June 20, 2025, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and Jack O’Connell were confirmed to star.

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Now it has been announced that Cillian Murphy will also be in the cast and will have an executive producer role as well.

Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman announced the news by clarifying that Cillian Murphy will return “but in a way that surprises and in a way that grows, let me put it that way,” Rothman said. “This is Danny Boyle at his best, combined with a very commercial genre, like we had with Edgar Wright and ‘Baby Driver.’ “Sometimes when you put a director like that in a commercial arena, it elevates it,” he said.

In the 2002 film 28 Days Later, Murphy plays courier Jim, who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggressive virus has led to the collapse of society.

In an interview with Variety, Cillian Murphy stated that he never watches his movies, except for this one.