Chef Andrew Zimmern, wearing a blue chore jacket, stands in front of his kitchen island.
Ask the chef Andrew Zimmern when he arrived in the Twin Cities, and he’ll respond with unsparing detail: “The night of Jan. 28, 1992. I had tried to kill myself four or five days earlier, and I was at the end of my rope, a horrible user of people and taker of things and an active addict and alcoholic.”
Chef Andrew Zimmern, wearing a blue chore jacket, stands in front of his kitchen island.
By then, he had no home, so he’d found room at a flophouse in New York where he woke up days after “eating a fistful of barbiturates” and drinking a bottle of vodka, he said. He managed to call a friend and try something new: “Ask for help.”
Chef Andrew Zimmern, wearing a blue chore jacket, stands in front of his kitchen island.
Help arrived in the form of a ticket to Minneapolis and a spot at the treatment center now known as the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Mr. Zimmern, 64, has remained in the Twin Cities ever since. “The recovering community here and the food community here loved me up at a time when I wasn’t able to love myself,” he said. “Without those people, I wouldn’t have anything.”
One of the most surprising, exciting pieces of movie news so far this year is that writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle are going back to the world of 28 Days Later. Over two decades since the groundbreaking original zombie film and 17 years since its follow-up, the pair are getting ready to make 28 Years Later.
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Speaking to Garland on the occasion of his latest film, Civil War, io9 asked him why now was the right time to go back to the franchise that launched his career.
“It was partly to do with the passage of time,” Garland told io9 over video chat. “It sounds dumb, but you get locked in. Originally I wrote 28 Days Later as almost like a gag. It was making a caption into the title. You know, ‘12 hours later,’ ‘The next day,’ except make it the title. And then you’re stuck with it. [Laughs] You got to live with the thing. And 28 Months Later would have seemed weird given the amount of time that had passed. And, 28 Weeks Later, someone had already done it. And so our last time frame, unless we start moving to centuries, was 28 years. And enough time had passed to justify that right.”
But, of course, there were a few other big factors beyond just the timing. “Danny was interested in doing it, the producers were interested in doing it, and I had an idea,” he said. “I had not really had an idea that I was interested in prior to that. It had been floated. We’d talk about it. Every five years or something it would get discussed, but I had no motivation to do it. I said, ‘Look, if someone else wants to do it, that’s fine, but I haven’t got anything.’ For some reason, that passage of time unlocked a particular concept in my head that the film then goes with, and so, suddenly it made sense. I said, ‘Okay, I think I’ve got an idea.’ And I wrote it as a script, and showed it to Danny and Andrew [Macdonald] and Peter [Rice] who are the producers, and they said, ‘Yeah, okay, let’s do it.’”
Plus, Garland confirmed that the overall idea is for the series to be a trilogy, if audiences turn up for it. “That was key to the idea was it was a story that couldn’t naturally fit in one film,” Garland said. “And there was a possibility— which we may not have the opportunity to do—but to do a proper trilogy. Not a sequence of sequels that are effectively replaying the first thing just in slightly different forms, but an actual true narrative. And we don’t know if we’ll be able to do it because that relates, in the end, to market forces. Films cost a lot of money. Even cheap films cost a lot of money. You know, people talk low-budget, but it’s a lot of money always. And so that depends on really whether people want to see future ones after we’ve made it.”
But, either way, 28 Years Later from Alex Garland and Danny Boyle is coming. And ultimately it’ll be coming… almost 28 years after the original too. No release date is set, but you have to guess 2025 or 2026, 23 or 24 years after the first film, is probably a good guess.
LONDON—Saying the accusations made against him over the years were not just disgusting but patently false, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, told reporters Monday the scandal over his alleged pedophilia was just Buckingham Palace’s attempt to cover up his ongoing battle with cancer. “Sadly, rather than being honest about a very serious threat to my health, my family and its advisors chose to distract the public from my potentially terminal condition by spreading awful rumors that I had slept with young teenage prostitutes,” said the embattled royal, adding that the longstanding allegations that he had engaged in sex with a 17-year-old at Ghislaine Maxwell’s home in London and participated in an orgy with several underage girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island were all part of a ploy to keep his tragic diagnosis private. “The truth is, all the witnesses who claim I groped them or sexually assaulted them when they were being trafficked as minors were paid a hefty fee by the palace to keep the spotlight off my long, arduous battle with cancer, which is a terrible disease. A lot worse than being forced to have sex with someone, I should think.” Andrew went on to ask the press for space during this difficult time, saying he was still trying to find the best way to explain his cancer to the many confused and saddened underage women in his life.
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Unlike Panam, Judy, and Kerry, River is the one companion you have to go out of your way to meet. Finding the Night City cop and helping him sort through a local mystery that weaves in and out of his family life makes for one of the most interesting breaks in Cyberpunk 2077’s usual action. Expect a little combat and chatter, but also light adventure game mechanics and some pretty horrifying Night City lore.
This questline does, however, unmask Cyberpunk 2077’s weird, inconsistent framing of cops and law enforcement, even weaponizing the ACAB saying in a particularly tacky lift that I’m not wild about. But if nothing else, these quests offer, for your inspection, a layer of the game’s inherent worldview that’s worth examining and dissecting.
