A lot can change in nearly three decades, even in a zombie apocalypse. New ways to survive, new mysteries evolving in the infection that laid the world low. Sometimes people grow up and become Aaron Taylor-Johnson, even. But one thing that doesn’t change? The violence.
After a brief, cryptic tease over the weekend, this morning Sony dropped our first extensive look at Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s highly-anticipated follow up to 28 Days and 28 Weeks later. Set, as the title implies, almost thirty years after the initial outbreak of the virus that turned peoples people into slavering, enraged zombies, 28 Years Later follows the struggles of a man named Jaime (Taylor-Johnson), who came of age during the initial outbreak. Now living on a remote island community that has managed to make a life for itself in the post-apocalypse, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be all that long before Jamie trades a somewhat stable life for venturing back out into the world that’s left.
The answer is seemingly not much that’s all good. There’s still a lot of zombies, but it also looks like your apocalypse-mandated masked human survivors, and perhaps even some creepy new twists to the infected to keep us on our toes–and thoroughly stressed out, if the full film can maintain the tension of this trailer.
28 Years Later is just the first half of our long-awaited return to this version of the zombie apocalypse, however–Boyle’s sequel was shot back-to-back with its own continuation, helmed by Nia DaCosta and titled The Bone Temple (which we seem to get a brief look at in this trailer, too). That film will see Cillian Murphy reprise his role from 28 Days as Jim, but it hasn’t stopped people from speculating that one of the zombies glimpsed in the trailer could be his grim fate, as there is one that looks especially like a particularly gaunt Murphy glimpsed rising out of a bed of wild grass.
We haven’t got all that long to keep speculating, though: 28 Years Later hits theaters June 20, 2025.
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