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Danny Boyle: I was scared Geordie accents would ruin 28 Years Later

Oscar-winning director said his team was ‘neurotically nervous’ about how US audiences would respond to the dialect — and was delighted when they didn’t mind

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, better known as Ant & Dec and who, like Tweedy, were also born in Newcastle upon Tyne, had failed to crack the American market with the short-lived Wanna Bet? The third instalment, on general release from Friday and which reunites Boyle with screenwriter Alex Garland, is set to be followed by 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple which is due to mark Murphy’s return to the horror film franchise. Liverpool-born Comer, 32, was described as having “a note-perfect Geordie” accent by The Times critic in her role as a member of a fortified community on Holy Island — with zombies an ever-present threat across the tidal causeway.

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