A new look at 28 Years Later has been revealed thanks to two Empire Magazine covers. If that zombie looks familiar, it's because the glimpse of him we caught in the first trailer for the movie went viral last month.
The terrifying figure was widely mistaken for 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy. However, we'd later learn it wasn't Jim but actor Angus Neill, an art dealer specialising in old masters, who will be credited as "Emaciated Infected."
"Danny told me he’d always had me in mind for the role," Neill said shortly after being tracked down. "So we met up, hit it off, and I agreed to take part. On set he has an extraordinary ability to hypnotise you, and working with him on the film was a very, very intense experience."
After The Walking Dead franchise shuffled to producing largely forgettable spin-offs, it will be exciting to discover what Boyle has dreamed up with his infected. It's been more than two decades since the first movie was made so how are these monsters still up and running?
In 28 Years Later, 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.
Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, 28 Years Later is produced by Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Boyle, and Garland. Cillian Murphy executive produces.
The movie's confirmed cast includes Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. Murphy has also been spotted on set.
28 Years Later arrives in theaters on June 20, 2025.