28 years later you don’t need your star

By Robert Scucci | Published 1 minute ago

When 28 years later Finally he saw his long -awaited theatrical launch, the message boards flooded the Internet with the same question: “Where is Cillian Murphy?” His absence caused debates about whether he would repeat his role as Jim, or if that was just a rumor to obtain advertising for the planned trilogy. Since then it has been confirmed that Murphy is linked to the project outside his role as an executive producer, and Jim, in fact, will have an important role in 28 years later: The temple of bonesas well as the final delivery still to name.

While I am excited to see what Alex Garland has reserved for the return of Cillian Murphy, I can’t help asking: “Do we really need it?”

We have all wondered what Jim has been doing since the initial outbreak of the IRA virus in the 2002 film, but he was only one of the innumerable people who lived the collapse and recovery of society. His experience lived within this fiction is just a small screen failure in the great scheme of things.

We already have closure in the Jim arch

Jim had a complete and satisfactory arc in 28 days laterand 28 years Later It was a critical and commercial success without its presence on the screen. The new world that is being built around the Sacred Island of Lindisfarne, and the desolate continent, right beyond its fortified road, is a fertile terrain for the rich narration of stories with a new group of survivors in their own separate adventure.

If you ignore the events of 28 weeks later Like Garland and Danny Boyle, it is reasonable to believe that the anger virus was successfully contained for continental England, and that some of those first survivors “did not” harm “after the country, including the character of Cillian Murphy. The theater end of 28 days later They saw Jim, Selena and Hanna stirring a plane after finding refuge in an abandoned cabin. That’s where his story ends as far as he’s concerned.

Apparently it takes 2 Jims to Tango

28 years later It suggests Jim’s return through graffiti scattered throughout the continent. My first thought was that Jim had been a hidden presence all this time, considered a popular hero who stayed to guide other survivors through the moor. That is, until they introduce us to Jimmy Crystal adult and their worship thugs that are dressed as teletubbies and fight against the hordes of the infected as if they were rangers.

The epic Cliffhanger at the end of 28 years later indicates a massive tonal and theme change for the next Bone temple Installation, leaving undoubtedly that the next chapter will depend on Jim by Cillian Murphy and Sir Jimmy Crystal by Jack O’Connell, which makes it the most focused on Jimmy story in the franchise so far. Instead of pushing towards a completely new and unknown territory, I’m afraid that returning the original Jim will keep us living in the past, even when the franchise tries to build towards a brighter future.

Unnecessary until necessary

There is a part of me that is more than excited to see Cillian Murphy repeat his role because he could have the key to some lost knowledge that survivors need to move on. But there is also that persistent thought at the bottom of my mind that is being worked in the saga as a quick and easy way to recover the seats.

Taking into account that Garland and Boyle have done an excellent job by building a completely new world without wasting too much time please The temple of bone And your follow -up is in good hands. We are not going to obtain a cheap reintroduction for the sake of reliving the days of glory if there is no substance.

Bringing Cillian Murphy to the mixture could be a step back if the story narration is not handled carefully.