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A new trailer has been revealed for 28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to the zombie-horror films 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.
With much more revealed now than the 2024 teaser offered, 28 Years Later will follow a group of survivors who inhabit a small island cut off from the mainland, where the Rage virus has taken hold for (you guessed it) 28 years. The trailer depicts Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his song Spike (Alfie Williams) as they journey to the mainland and attempt to survive in a Zombie-filled terrain. Like its prior teaser, the trailer once again features a haunting reading of the 1903 poem “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling.
The film’s logline reads: “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.”
Out on June 20th, 28 Years Later reunites original director Danny Boyle with screenwriter Alex Garland; Boyle and Garland both exited the series for 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, which was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The saga doesn’t end here, either: 28 Years Later was shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a sequel written by Garland and directed by Nia DaCosta. A third film is also in the works.
In addition to Taylor-Johnson and Williams, 28 Years Later also stars Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, and more. Original 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy also serves as a producer on the new film, and it seemed like he’d appear as one of the zombies (based on the early trailer). Murphy is confirmed to have a “surprising” role in 28 Years Later, though details are unclear, and he has not yet appeared in any of the film’s trailers — despite him resembling an emaciated infected man shown in teasers.
Meanwhile, 28 Days Later arrived on digital platforms finally last year.
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