2024 kicked off with the thrilling news that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were officially developing 28 Years Later, the first in a planned sequel t
2024 kicked off with the thrilling news that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were officially developing 28 Years Later, the first in a planned sequel trilogy to their 2002 post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later (and, by extension, its follow-up 28 Weeks Later.) Since then, we’ve seen Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes announced as the modern movie’s leads, gotten word of Cillian Murphy‘s return to the franchise, and been drip-fed tantalising plot details by Fiennes. Now, as the year comes to a close and the film’s June 2025 release grows ever closer, Sony has revealed the first poster for the next chapter in Boyle and Garland’s Rage Virus saga. Check it out below:
A biohazard sign formed of blood-red skulls. Scratched in lettering. An imposing title treatment. The promise of a theatrical release. And a sinister modern logline: Time Didn’t Heal Anything. It’s a minimalist approach to a first poster, sure, but our first piece of promo for 28 Years Later is hitting all the right, doom-and-gloom notes, centring the body count amassed by the Rage Virus while setting us up to return to a world that’s only gotten more broken since we last saw it. Paired with Fiennes’ description of the plot to IndieWire, which confirms things pick up 28 years into the pandemic as we’re set to follow a adolescent boy’s journey to find a doctor (Fiennes) to lend a hand his dying mother, and the makings are all there for a movie — well, the first of three movies — that will remind us how before The Last Of Us was even a fungal twinkle in Neil Druckmann’s eye, Boyle and Garland rewrote the rulebook for zombie-adjacent horror first.
Also along for 28 Years Later are Jack O’Connell and Erin Kellyman, both of whom will lend a hand steer the series’ modern trilogy, the second chapter of which — Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple — has already been shot. As for how this first film will shake out, we’ll find out when 28 Years Later tears through cinemas across the world on 20 June, 2025.
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