Here’s the latest trailer for Danny Boyle’s upcoming 28 Years Later. Previously shown to exhibition during Sony’s CinemaCon presentation earlier this month, the new look offers more insight into what’s in store for the next installment of the zombie thriller franchise. Check it out above.
Written by Alex Garland and starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes, the story picks up nearly three decades after the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory in 28 Days Later. Now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected.
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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 (Taylor-Johnson) 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.
“Once you walk onto that mainland, there’s no rescues,” we hear as zombies are hunted and attack. Says Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson ominously, “There are many kinds of death… And some are better than others.”
The first trailer, which dropped back in December and is the third most-watched horror trailer ever with 60.2 million views in its first 24 hours, had featured Taylor-Johnson’s paternal figure guarding the green fields of England with a bow and arrow, accompanied by the unsettling sound of a Taylor Holmes recording of Rudyard Kipling’s war poem “Boots.” The poem also provides chilling background to the new trailer.
28 Years Later is set for domestic release on June 20. Producers are Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Boyle and Garland. 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy exec produces. Murphy does not appear in 28 Years Later, but is expected to turn up down the line. Said Boyle at CinemaCon, “like all good things in life you may have to wait a while for him to make his appearance.”
The second film in the newly revamped trilogy — 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — will hit North American theaters on January 16, 2026. At CinemaCon, Boyle told the Las Vegas audience that he doesn’t have finance for the third movie and urged exhibition to “support the continuing apocalypse” so he “might get to come back here with the third film.”
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