28 Days Later

…with the postapocalyptic zombie film 28 Days Later, which helped launch Cillian Murphy as a leading man. Boyle continued to show his versatility with Millions (2004), a heartwarming story about a motherless boy who finds the proceeds of a bank robbery.

…for the 2002 zombie movie 28 Days Later, reuniting with Boyle as director. His second novel, The Tesseract (1998), was adapted into a 2003 movie of the same name, for which he cowrote the screenplay. He collaborated with Boyle again on Sunshine (2007), about astronauts attempting to reignite a dying…