The first trailer for 28 Years Later has been unleashed and it's not for the faint of heart. The movie reunites Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland for a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.
That movie popularised the idea of zombies that can run and, decades after they first roamed the streets of London, we see here that they're more formidable and frightening than ever before.
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.
"That's partly what the film is about, is exactly that. It’s to do with the passage of time, and thinking about what effect the passage of time would have," Garland said earlier this year. "Is it what you would traditionally call a post-apocalyptic state? Or has something else begun to manifest? Time is really at the core of the engine of the film."
Ralph Fiennes recently shared some plot details when he teased, "Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities. And it centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother."
"He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain," the actor continued. "But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good."
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.
Watch the first trailer for 28 Years Later below and stay tuned for more on this one in the build to its release in theaters on June 20, 2025.