10 Comic Book Tie-Ins That Made Great Movies Better
4. 28 Days Later: The Aftermath
It is a scientific fact that no one dislikes 28 Days Later. The sequel, though still mostly positive, is a give and take with fans but the first movie, released in 2002, was truly something special.
This was the film that also popularized the “running zombies”, or infected, which would overshadow the shambling husks they were once considered.
A sequel was greenlit and released in 2007, alongside a graphic novel, 28 Days Later: The Aftermath. Written by Steve Niles, most famous for the vampire comic 30 Days of Night, the graphic novel told four separate stories, each at a different point in time between the cause of the outbreak all the way to the roughly the same time as the sequel with NATO's attempts to make a safe zone in London.
This title acts as a perfect bridge not only between the two films, but for the history of the Rage virus and the world we see outside of the first film, which is why it truly escalates the second film to have higher stakes and just feel larger in scope than the first movie did. The bigger budget could have helped that as well.