Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s original post-apocalyptic film was released in November 2002, and is now in the works for a sequel – potentially a trilogy.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony won the trade battle with Warner Bros. for the release of the sequel to the film called “28 years later”. Sharp Visors and Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy, who starred in the original, will executive produce and possibly appear in the cast.

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland will produce the sequel, as will original producers Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, a division of the former Twentieth Century Fox studio that originally backed the British film and its sequel. Fox Searchlight worked with Boyle on eight films, from Life Worse than Usual and The Beach (Boyle’s first collaboration with Garland) to the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours.

Released more than 20 years ago, 28 Days Later revived the zombie genre, paving the way for projects like The Walking Dead, World War Z, and Zombieland Control Shot. Murphy stars as a man who comes out of a coma and discovers that the outside world has been taken over by zombies 28 days ago. The film grossed $82.7 million worldwide and spawned a sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, although Boyle and Garland were only nominally involved as executive producers.

The duo has long talked in the press about filming a sequel – first about the option “28 months later”, and now, given the time that has passed since the release of the original, “28 years later”