With a small chunk of the film set in the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh hip hop group Young Fathers providing the film’s score 28 Years Later has a number of Scottish connections.
Directed by Danny Boyle, whose earliest films include the Scotland-set Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, the latest instalment of the post-apocalyptic franchise kicks off a new trilogy following the original 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel 28 Weeks Later.
Following a group of survivors living on a remote island almost 30 years after the Rage virus first tore through Britain, 28 Years Later stars Jodie Comer and Bond-favourite Aaron Taylor-Johnson as parents Isla and Jamie, alongside newcomer Alfie Williams as their 12-year-old son Spike.
From Scottish actors such as Stuart McQuarrie and Robert Carlyle appearing in the earlier films to Young Fathers providing the soundtrack to 28 Years Later, here are all of the franchise’s connections with Scotland.
9. Franchise director Danny Boyle’s earliest films were both set and filmed in Scotland
The director of 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later, though Danny Boyle is English he has strong connections with Edinburgh. Having directed Scottish actors such as Ewan McGregor and Peter Mullan in his Edinburgh-set directorial debut Shallow Grave (1994), Boyle’s other Scotland-set films include the iconic Trainspotting and its sequel T2. | Getty Images