2024 began with the thrilling announcement that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were officially working on 28 Years Later, the inaugural installment in a planned sequel trilogy to their 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later (and, by extension, its follow-up 28 Weeks Later). Since then, we've witnessed the unveiling of Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes as the leading cast members of the new film, learned about Cillian Murphy's return to the franchise, and been gradually fed intriguing plot details by Fiennes. Now, as the year draws to a close and the film's June 2025 release date approaches, Sony has unveiled the first poster for the next chapter in Boyle and Garland's Rage Virus saga. Check it out below:
A biohazard sign composed of blood-red skulls. Scratched lettering. A commanding title treatment. The promise of a theatrical release. And a chilling new tagline: Time Didn't Heal Anything. This minimalist approach to the first poster, while simple, hits all the right, doom-and-gloom notes, focusing on the body count caused by the Rage Virus and setting the stage for our return to a world that has only become more fractured since we last visited it. Paired with Fiennes' description of the plot to IndieWire, which confirms the story picks up 28 years into the pandemic as we follow a young boy's quest to find a doctor (Fiennes) to save his dying mother, the ingredients are all there for a film—well, the first of three—that will remind us how before The Last Of Us was even a glimmer in Neil Druckmann's eye, Boyle and Garland redefined the rules of zombie-adjacent horror.
Also joining the cast of 28 Years Later are Jack O'Connell and Erin Kellyman, both of whom will help guide the series' new trilogy, with the second chapter—Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple—already in the can. As for how this first film will unfold, we'll discover when 28 Years Later hits cinemas worldwide on 20 June, 2025.
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