'Hope So!' — 28 Days Later Star Cillian Murphy Says He's 'Ready' to Return for Franchise's Planned Fifth Film, Despite Bone Temple Box Office Flop

Cillian Murphy remains keen to marque different movie successful the 28 Days Later franchise, contempt its latest introduction ending up arsenic a container bureau bomb.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, successful which Murphy lone has a cameo, launched successful January — conscionable 7 months aft past year's 28 Years Later. Series creator Danny Boyle planned the 2 movies arsenic the opening of a caller trilogy for the franchise, though its fiscal show has near its aboriginal somewhat unclear.

While past year's 28 Years Later performed good successful theaters, The Bone Temple did not. Despite affirmative reviews, it failed to gain backmost its $63 cardinal accumulation budget, fto unsocial the further costs spent connected its marketing.

Will the series' past movie inactive beryllium made? Murphy himself has antecedently stated that it would lone beryllium greenlit if the 2nd was successful, though it was reported successful December past twelvemonth that Sony Pictures had fixed the 3rd introduction a greenish light. Since then, thing has been said — but successful a caller interrogation with The Times, the histrion struck a much upbeat tone.

"Hope so!" Murphy said, erstwhile asked for an update connected the movie, which is believed to inactive beryllium successful the readying stages. "I'm acceptable anyway," helium concluded.

Cillian starred successful the archetypal 28 Days Later backmost successful 2003, though did not instrumentality for its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, oregon past year's follow-up 28 Years Later. Fans of the franchise yet caught a glimpse of him erstwhile again astatine the extremity of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, reintroducing him to the series' communicative successful beforehand of a planned starring relation successful its sixth entry.

Next up for Murphy is this week's instrumentality of Peaky Blinders, this clip connected the large screen, successful Netflix movie Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Murphy volition not, however, beryllium taking connected the relation of Voldemort successful HBO's Harry Potter TV bid — contempt assorted rumors to the contrary. "I'm categorically not," Murphy told The Times.

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