Horrors await in first look at Danny Boyle’s ’28 Years Later’
Danny Boyle is a filmmaker who is always up for a challenge and who has left his mark across countless genres and stories, proving himself as a master storyteller in the process. In recent years he has returned to revisit his past stories wiht the likes of T2: Trainspotting, and in 2025 he’ll return to the zombie apocalypse in the long wanted sequel to cult sci-fi watch 28 Days Later, with the highly anticipated 28 Years Later.
And this first trailer promises a rush of crazy, fury and rage in what could be one of the years most intense and creative pieces of cinema.
Watch the official teaser trailer for 28 Years Later here:
Here’s the official synopsis:
It’s been almost three decades since the Rage Virus escaped a medical research laboratory, and 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, they discover secrets, wonders, and horrors of the outside world.
Set to 1903 poem “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling, recited by American actor Taylor Holmes in 1915, this first teaser trailer promises an immediate rush of a snapshot of the bleak future of a plague ravaged future Britain, and ideas of survivalism, fear and anxiety are rife. The teaser trailer moves at pace, and it throws the audience into what I can only describe as a frenzied watch, and what is shaping up to be one of 2025’s most anticipated releases. The whole teaser trailer appears to be a feverish nightmare, and you feel the growing madness in the imagery in each growing beat.
Boyle’s presence has drawn an incredible ensemble of A-list talent for the project including Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes, while Academy Award-winner Cillian Murphy is also set to return to the narrative following his work twenty-three years ago in 28 Days Later. Screenwriter Alex Garland has also returned to the project, and sought inspiration for the film in the acclaimed British coming-of-age drama Kes, while with it’s layout and delirium, I believe there’s also the inspiration of acclaimed British horror film, The Wicker Man.
28 Years Later is without-a-doubt one of the most anticipated releases of 2025, and it’ll be a sci-fi, horror watch that audiences will certainly get behind when it arrives in cinemas on June 19.
