#selena 28 days later

[deepestconnoisseurmoon]

28 Days Later (2002)

Dir. Danny Boyle

[tvmilfs]

[charli3emily]

New fixation just dropped 💔

[oddfamiliar]

The character arc of Mr. Jim 28 Days Later is one of my favorites in cinema

[punchitmrsulu]

So, here's all the conjectures on Jim's fate in 28 Years Later.

Many of us are choosing to believe the zombie showed in the trailer, despite looking like Cillian Murphy, is not Jim because they most likely wouldn't reveal something like that in the trailer. And maybe that's exactly what they want, to drive people crazy thinking it's him but in the end it won't be.

Also the set pictures of him that have come out so far suggest he's alive and kicking. Those don't confirm the zombie is not Jim for sure because they could still be of flashbacks showing how Jim became the zombie but there's room for hope.

There's also all the references to a "Jimmy" in the trailer, which could be referring to Jim but we don't know in what capacity.

28 Years Later is going to be one of 3 movies, the second of which was shot at the same time as this one, btw. So, many are theorizing Cillian has a supporting role in this one, and will quite possibly just show up at the very end but will be the main character or one of the main characters in the sequel.

When asked if Cillian would return for 28 Years Later, Tom Rothman (Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman) said, "Yes, but in a surprising way and in a way that grows, let me put it that way," which makes the theory above seem even more plausible.

In addition, my sister suggested that Erin Kellyman's character could very well be Jim and Selena's daughter. Which also doesn't confirm Jim is not dead but, at the very least, it would mean they were able to be together for quite a while before shit hit the fan again.

Which brings me to Selena and Hannah's fate. I'm also very worried about what happened to them and there's been absolutely no word about either character being in these movies. They could just be hiding the reveal, which would make total sense, or one or both of them are dead. I'm really hoping that's not the case because the 3 of them were THE found family and it would be very sad for them to have overcome all they did in the first movie just for it all to have amounted to nothing.

Having said that, if any or all 3 of them are indeed dead in these new movies, I just hope it's handled well. If you're going to kill beloved characters it needs to be done the right way and have the proper weight in the story. I hope it's not meaningless and just for shock value.

I trust Danny Boyle and Alex Garland when it comes to storytelling, and Cilian Murphy is executive producing this thing, so I don't think that'll be the case, I think they all care about this story and these characters, but you never know.

It looks like it's going to be an amazing movie regardless of the OGs' actual fate. It seems like it can stand on its own and I'm ridiculously excited for it, I've lost count of how many times I've watched the trailer. But let's pray our babies are handled with the care and love they deserve.

[shoogachi]

28 Days Later (2002)

[butterflykisses86]

How dare Pop Crave and Base spread such lies. Yes, those cheekbones are amazing, but Jim would never...Hes living happily ever after with Selena and Hannah in a nice cottage.

[winterstarfall]

if 28 years later pt2 isn’t jim trying to get home to his wife and daughter (selena and hannah) i’m going to be deeply upset

[jheselbraum]

I wouldn't want this to happen in the actual movie but I would love a 28 years later parody that's about people just kind of chilling in Brazil which is totally fine and free of zombies

[swdefcult]

[drinkinggblood]

FUCCCKKK please be joking.. let my goat live

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

Hello!

[whenthestonesrot]

That was longer than a heartbeat.

[denimbex1986]

'28 Days Later, the apocalyptic zombie film which gave Cillian Murphy his breakout role, opens and closes with two near-identical scenes. Both moments find Jim, played by Murphy, scared, injured and confused, the camera pressed hard to his face as he tries to decipher the situation in which he finds himself. These bookends, while framed in a similar fashion, present two very different people; the Jim blissfully unaware of the zombie apocalypse gripping his world, and the Jim who’s just pressed a man’s eyeballs out with his thumbs to save his only friends and companions. A man who did what had to be done.

Throughout his career, the latter is the Murphy we have become familiar with. In almost every role he takes on, Murphy has an inherent control over his environment. Whether he is a mob boss, Irish revolutionary, Gotham’s least Hippocratic psychiatrist, or a world-changing nuclear physicist, he is preternaturally competent, a stoic statue of proficiency, a man who does what’s needed. Jim isn’t any of those things when we first meet him, but he learns fast.

As we enter a summer in which Murphy is set to headline one of the biggest movies of the year, it is important to remember how anonymous he was when he was cast in Danny Boyle’s zombie thriller. Up to that point, the 26-year-old Cork-born actor had mostly bounced around British and Irish theater, before starring in Disco Pigs – a strange, dark little movie adapted from the Edna Walsh play he had also performed in. That said, it’s not hard to understand what Boyle and subsequent directors saw in the young actor. As if his piercing blue eyes and Roman bust of a face weren’t enough, Murphy has the kind of quiet, understated power that allows for both projection and unknowability.

“Cillian has this extraordinary empathetic ability to carry an audience into a thought process. He projects an intelligence that allows the audience to feel that they understand the character and see layers of meaning,” said Christopher Nolan to Rolling Stone earlier this year. It’s something that Nolan has exploited in different ways throughout their many collaborations. Hot off the success of 28 Days Later, Nolan brought Murphy in to test for the lead role in his new Batman trilogy – a role that would eventually go to Christian Bale. Regardless, Nolan wanted Murphy involved, instead casting him as one of Bale’s earliest nemeses, Dr. Jonathan Crane, or Scarecrow, a psychiatrist unafraid to explore unconventional modes of diagnosis and treatment. There’s something to be said about the fact that even as a comic book villain – a notoriously insecure profession – Murphy’s Scarecrow remains a thread that runs through the Nolan Batman trilogy, an adaptable, steady hand in a world of Jokers.

It’s a role Murphy takes on again and again throughout his career, that of the consummate professional, even as circumstances around him continue to heighten. A year after the release of Batman Begins, Murphy appeared in Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a story set a bit closer to home than Gotham City. In it, he plays Damien O’Donovan, a fictional Irish Republican Army soldier fighting for Irish independence in the 1920s. It’s a dense, historically-minded film in which the chaos and violence of the time is placed at the fore, and individual character, at times, is given short shrift.

Murphy’s O’Donovan is the exception – a young man believable as both the bookish, London-bound doctor and the ruthless military leader. It’s his moral anguish, and constant refusal to let it stand in the way of his goals, that give the film momentum and pathos even in the face of its moments of history book density.

Much of what he does in The Wind That Shakes The Barley can be seen as the blueprint for what, to this point, is perhaps Murphy’s most notable role. Thomas Shelby, the leader of the titular criminal enterprise at the center of Peaky Blinders, is defined by both internalized anguish and ruthless acumen. Like many a television anti-hero before and after, Shelby is haunted, by both the trauma he faced during the First World War and the violent lengths he must go to keep his family atop the pecking order in 1920s Birmingham. For much of the series, this trauma is beneath the surface, an anger that simmers from the corners of those wide eyes but never makes its way to the rest of the face. When it does escape that stoic stare, it is violent and terrifying, a drastic inversion of the control he so easily displays.

It’s this line of performance that makes his broken and shell-shocked turn in 2017’s Dunkirk all the more affecting. Nolan’s characteristic manipulation of time has us meet Murphy’s unnamed “shivering soldier” only after the events that have led him to near catatonia. When Mark Rylance’s civilian sailor and his son find Murphy he looks the part of a competent officer, one who should be raring for a fight, but instead his all frayed nerves, pure trauma with none of the facade that Murphy typically wears so well.

This brings us back to 28 Days Later. When we meet Jim he could not be more vulnerable. Stark naked, alone and afraid, he awakens unaware of the virus that has revaged the United Kingdom, and survives only thanks to a few straggling survivors, led by Naomie Harris’s headstrong and resourceful chemist Selena. Today, it’s not hard to picture Murphy as the knowing leader ushering the powerless through apocalyptic terror, but here he is all but ineffectual, a bicycle messenger who lost his whole family and nearly everyone he has ever met. “Help Selena! Wait, Selena!” yells Jim as he hobbles up the stairs away from the infected whose red eyes and snarled teeth close in on him. As the audience surrogate, Murphy spends much of 28 Days Later learning and adapting as best he can, but he is almost always one step behind the action, never in control.

That is, until the film’s climax, when his naivety and relative peacefulness is wrenched away by twisted humanity that threatens his only remaining companions. Caked in blood and straddling a would-be rapist, Jim is no longer wide-eyed, but hardened and callous. It’s in these final moments where we meet the Murphy who has graced our screens ever since: a man whose hope is always tempered by anguish, but who can be rellied upon to do what has to be done all the same.'

[theladyofthevarioussorrows]

This movie rocked my world when I was younger...I can't imagine why...🥵

I mean, I was really into the thought of a blue-eyed (mostly) mild-mannered protective man who WILL go full murder mode, fuck shit up with a baseball bat and SHOVE HIS FINGERS IN A DUDE'S EYE SOCKETS to make sure you're safe, I don't know about everyone else.

Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris in 28 Days Later (2002)

[vault81]

people when a character has limited knowledge and isn't omnicient to the entire plot/lore