Sony Pictures has now released the first trailer for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, finally showing us more of how things look in a world ravaged by the Rage pandemic. The rumored story features a ruthlessly enforced quarantine still in effect nearly 30 years after the virus was unleashed.
A group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, defended causeway. When one of the group is required to leave the island to find medical help, he discovers that things on the mainland could be even more horrific than he ever thought.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, and Erin Kellyman star. The budget was significantly higher than the previous installments, 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, at $75 million. Reports say the movie was shot on an iPhone 15.
Alex Garland wrote the script for this movie, and it is the first part of a trilogy. The second movie has already been shot by Nia DaCosta. That will arrive in 2026.
Check out the trailer:
The rhythmic poem over a lot of the trailer is Boots by Rudyard Kipling.
Boots imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman on a forced march in South Africa during the Second Boer War. The particular cadence, when read correctly with the first four words in each line at the rate of two words to the second, gives the time to which the British foot soldier was accustomed to march back then.
28 Years Later opens in cinemas in June next year.