It all adds up

Since early last year, there's been talk of 28 Months Later, a trilogy-concluder (?) to Danny Boyle's fantastic, now-influential 28 Days Later. The word was that depending on the draw of 28 Weeks Later, the third could get into the scripting process. $28 million dollars later (well, $28.6), it's seemed to fall into a holding pattern, though with subsequent worldwide gross and DVD sales, the numbers are likely to add up to another 28. During publicity for Sunshine, Boyle said that he would indeed be interested in returning to make a third, and might even retake the directorial reins from Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (due to Sunshine, he only served as executive producer and shot some second-unit footage for 28 Weeks). It'd take place in Russia, and not any other country 28 Weeks might or might not have implied.

Yesterday while watching Doomsday – and having a complete blast, by the way! – a subtitle told me at the commencement of the proper action that our main story was set in 2035. 28 Weeks Later came out in May of 2007, so if my calculations are true, that makes Doomsday, ladies and gentlemen, 28 Years Later.