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Warner Bros. is the studio responsible for multiple major motion pictures including the likes ofBarbieandOppenheimerbut has produced a fair share of terrible movies as well. Well, the studio is now seemingly inches away from getting an iconic Cillian Murphy movie, and allegedly ruining it!
With fans, zombies, Cillian Murphy, and Warner Bros. in the mix, the future is surely going to be chaotic as the studio tries to acquire the rights to Cillian Murphy’s 2002 film28 Days Later.Fans, on the other hand, think that the studio is going to ruin their movie!
Warner Bros. Is This Close To Acquiring Cillian Murphy’s28 Days Later
Well, we are not saying it but fans think that Warner Bros. has a knack for ruining good franchises! Back in 2002,Cillian Murphy, the veteran actor known forPeaky BlindersandOppenheimer,starred in a film titled28 Days Later.
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With the plot of surviving against a zombie apocalypse, the movie received great reviews especially Murphy with his role of Jim in the movie. As per notable inside Jeff Sneider, Warner Bros. is currently the frontrunner in obtaining the rights to the 2002 movie. Hoping to turn it into a franchise with a reboot and/or sequels, people are not so optimistic about the future of28 Days Later.
Warner Bros is the frontrunner to acquire the rights to develop ‘28 YEARS LATER’.
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— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)July 19, 2025
WB ruins almost every franchise it gets
— Nkechi K. (@NkechiKwenu)August 21, 2025
Ahh. A new tax writeoff.
— the World’s Greatest Narcissist (@JAMnit_JAM)August 19, 2025
Anyone But WB
— 𝙸𝚝𝚜𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜⊃∪∩⪽🏳️⚧️ (@ItsRandomWordss)July 25, 2025
No one watches warner bros. What they did with Depp and henry cavill.
— Edupakistan (@ilmPakistam)June 27, 2025
And then they will put it in vault
— zbigi (@zbigi15)August 22, 2025
They gonna mess that shit up i already know for a fact. Studio Inference Day One.
— venz (@VenzOnTWT)August 24, 2025
And with that, the studio might indeed bag Cillian Murphy’s movie but people demand a good sequel or a reboot. The original 2002 movie received rave ratings with 7.5/10 on IMDB and a whopping 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also spawned a sequel titled28 Weeks Laterwhich starred Jeremy Renner in the lead role but it wasn’t that successful.
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Cillian Murphy Talks About His Method of Acting
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Admittedly back in 2002, Cillian Murphy wasn’t the star that he is today. Despite starring in Christopher Nolan’s 2005 filmBatman Beginsin the role of Scarecrow, Murphy found true fame with the role of Thomas Shelby inPeaky Blinders.In a recent interview with theL.A. Times, Cillian Murphy talked about his method of acting.
“What I like to do is prep and prep and prep and prep and then kind of park them for the shoot, because I think acting isn’t an intellectual exercise. It’s an instinctual one. So facts are useless to you in a scene with another character, another actor.”
He further continued,
“So, I have them all in my head. And then I kind of just, they just float around there and I call them if I need to. But mostly it’s just about the heart instead of the mind. You know when you’re working. What a pretentious answer.”
The actor ended his statements with a joke on his answer but that’s just Murphy being Murphy. The actor recently starred in Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimerfollowing which he is getting awards and accolades for his performance. With a strong rating of 8.4/10 on IMDB and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, the 2023 film is available to rent on Apple TV+ in the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
