’28 Years Later 3′ Gets Sony Green Light With Cillian Murphy in Talks to Star

“28 Years Later 3” is getting the greenlight at Sony as Oscar winner Cillian Murphy is in talks to star in the third installment, TheWrap has learned.

Murphy first broke out in the zombie franchise with 2002’s “28 Days Later.” Murphy will appear breifly in the second installment “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” which opens on Martin Luther King holiday weekend on Jan. 16.

Franchise wrter Alex Garland is currently writing the script for the third installment.

Filmmaker Danny Boyle – who also directed Murphy in “28 Days Later” – worked with writer Alex Garland on a planned trilogy reboot of the zombie franchise. The first two films in the trilogy were shot back-to-back…