The year 2024 began with thrilling news that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were officially working on 28 Years Later, the first in a planned sequel trilogy to their 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later (and its sequel 28 Weeks Later.)
Since that announcement, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes have been confirmed as the leads for the new movie, we've heard about Cillian Murphy's return to the franchise, and received intriguing plot hints from Fiennes. Now, as the year ends and the film's June 2025 release approaches, Sony has unveiled the first poster for the next installment in Boyle and Garland's Rage Virus saga.
A biohazard symbol made of blood-red skulls. Scratched lettering. A commanding title design. The anticipation of a theatrical debut. And a menacing new tagline: Time Didn't Heal Anything. It's a minimalist take for an initial poster, but our first promotional piece for 28 Years Later effectively captures the dark and ominous tone, focusing on the death toll caused by the Rage Virus and preparing us to revisit a world that's become even more fractured since we last encountered it. This is complemented by Fiennes' plot description to IndieWire, which reveals that the story resumes 28 years into the pandemic as we follow a young boy's quest to find a doctor (Fiennes) to save his dying mother.
The elements are all in place for a film — the first of three — that will remind us that before The Last Of Us was even conceived by Neil Druckmann, Boyle and Garland had already redefined the genre of zombie-related horror. Joining 28 Years Later are Jack O'Connell and Erin Kellyman, both of whom will guide the new trilogy, with the second installment — Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple — already filmed. We'll discover how this first film unfolds when 28 Years Later hits theaters worldwide on 20 June, 2025.