The debut trailer for 28 Years Later is out within the wild, displaying a primary take a look at the long-awaited continuation of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombie apocalypse film franchise.
28 Years Later, due out on June 20, 2025, is because the title suggests set nearly three a long time after the virus was first unleashed upon the world. Here’s the official synopsis:
Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated author Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set on this planet created by 28 Days Later. It’s been nearly three a long time because the rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island related to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as effectively.
The trailer kicks off with an unnerving take a look at a gaggle of kids who’re watching British youngsters TV present the Teletubbies (it would not appear like it ends effectively for them, sadly). We then quick ahead to twenty-eight years later, and a small city of people that reside on an island and are ruled by neighborhood roles. Clearly, all just isn’t because it appears.
Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, with a bow and arrow as a weapon, alongside Alfie Williams’ teen character, set out from the island on some unknown mission. As you’d anticipate, issues don’t go to plan, and the pair take refuge in a home that features what appears like a zombie strung up and gagged.
There are all types of creepy pictures within the trailer, suggesting people are as a lot a hazard because the zombies. There’s what appears like mutated zombies, and possibly even mutated people. The trailer is about in opposition to a somewhat disturbing efficiency of Boots, the 1903 poem by English creator Rudyard Kipling that imagines the repetitive ideas of a marching British Army infantryman.
Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy is confirmed to return for 28 Years Later, however, as one Sony government has teased, “in a shocking method and in a method that grows.” There is one shot within the trailer that reveals a zombie that appears an terrible lot like Murphy. Could this be how he reprises his function?
28 Days Later was certainly one of his breakout roles again in 2002, the place Murphy performed Jim, a bicycle courier who woke from a coma to search out himself in a post-apocalyptic London after an aggression-inducing virus led to the breakdown of society. Murphy did not return for 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which adopted a unique forged of characters.
We first discovered that 28 Years Later was formally greenlit again in January alongside plans for the revival to be a trilogy. What’s extra, IGN had beforehand discovered that The Marvels and Candyman director Nia DaCosta has been in talks to direct the second film of the trilogy.
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