Some of Britain’s finest actors are entering the zombie apocalypse, as Deadline reports that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are boarding 28 Years Later.

Danny Boyle is directing the long-awaited sequel to 28 Days Later, which he helmed in 2002, and which centred on a man (Cillian Murphy) who wakes up in the hospital to find the UK overtaken by a zombie plague. Civil War and Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, who penned the 2002 script, is back to write what is intended to be the first film in a new trilogy for Sony.

Boyle and Garland will produce the film with Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice and Bernie Bellew. Murphy is also attached as executive producer, though it’s not expected that he’ll appear in the film.

Jodie Comer is best known for her role as the globe-trotting assassin Villanelle in Killing Eve, and has gone on to star in major blockbusters (Free Guy) and genre indies (The End We Start From) alike, and will star in the period motorcycle drama The Bikeriders next, which releases June 21st. Taylor-Johnson will be in cinemas early next month with The Fall Guy, in which he stars opposite Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and has the long-delayed Marvel feature Kraven the Hunter due out in August. Fiennes, lastly, was recently seen in horror-comedy The Menu, opposite Anya Taylor-Joy.

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