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18 Years Later, A Controversial Apocalypse Sequel Is Finally Confirmed To Be Canon

Hoai-Tran Bui

created: June 17, 2025, 10:12 p.m. | updated: June 24, 2025, 5:44 p.m.

Originally, the 28 Days Later franchise had ended on an alarmingly bleak note. The final shot of 28 Weeks Later shows a gang of Infected zombies racing through Paris tunnels and running at the Eiffel Tower. For 18 years, that was the ending we had for the 28 Days Later franchise: the Rage Virus had spread to Continental Europe and threatened to take over the entire world. But that doesn’t mean that the ending of 28 Weeks Later no longer happened, nor that the sequel, which 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle only helmed the opening sequence with Robert Carlyle, is no longer canon. Sony PicturesIn the years since 28 Days Later revitalized the zombie genre, zombie movies and shows have become all, ahem, rage.

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