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- I was very excited about
the news that you and Danny

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are gonna come back
for a "28 Years Later."

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- Yeah.
- What made you guys

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confident enough to be
like, "Okay, now's the time.

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Let's go back to this thing

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that kind of really, like,
launched our careers"?

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- It was partly to do
with the passage of time.

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You know, originally I
wrote "28 Days Later"

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as almost like a gag,

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'cause it was like a caption,

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it was making a caption into the title.

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You know, "12 hours later," "next day,"

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except make it the title.

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And then you're stuck
with it (laughs), right?

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You've gotta live with the thing.

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"28 Months Later" would've seemed weird,

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given the amount of time that had passed.

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"28 Weeks Later," someone
had already done it,

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and so we had our last timeframe,

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unless we start moving to
centuries, was 28 years.

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And enough time had passed to justify that

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and I had an idea.

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I had not really an idea

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that I was interested in prior to that.

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It had been floated.

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Like, we'd talk about it
just every couple year,

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or more than every couple years.

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For some reason, that passage of time

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unlocked a particular concept in my head

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that the film then goes with.

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I said, "Okay, no, I
think I've got an idea,"

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and I wrote it as a script
and showed it to Danny

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and Andrew and Peter,
who are the producers,

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and they said, "Yeah, okay, let's do it."

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And that's it.

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- The rumor was in that writing

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is that it was conceived
as a potential trilogy,

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is that real or is it?

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- Yeah, yeah, that's real.

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In fact, that was key to the idea

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was it was a story that couldn't
naturally sit in one film

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and there was a possibility,

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which we may not have
the opportunity to do,

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but to do a proper trilogy.

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So not a sequence of sequels

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that are effectively
replaying the first thing

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just in slightly different forms,

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but an actual true narrative.

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We don't know if we'll be able to do it

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because that relates, actually,
in the end to market forces.

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That depends on, really,
whether people want to see it

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once we've made,

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want to see future ones
after we've made it.

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(air whooshes)

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- Go, go, go, go.
(intense music)

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- [President] God bless America.