Extra like 22 years later, amirite? “28 Days Later,” Danny Boyle‘s seminal zombie horror film from 2002, is lastly being made accessible for digital rental and buy after spending years in streaming limbo.
Sony on Monday, December 16 launched the trailer for “28 Years Later,” the upcoming sequel within the franchise that reunites Boyle with screenwriter Alex Garland. The film appears superior — even when the corpse of Cillian Murphy has seen higher days (take a look at the 1:48 mark within the trailer to see what we’re speaking about).
However the true shock was that “28 Days Later” is being rescued from that purgatory the place it was caught for thus lengthy. The movie will probably be made accessible on digital rental and buy through PVOD on Dec. 18 and is on the market for pre-order instantly.
Regardless of its acclaim, “28 Days Later” was largely unavailable on digital streaming providers — until you needed to observe it illegally. twentieth Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Photos launched it again in 2002, and there was a sequel, “28 Weeks Later,” that launched in 2007, however since then, there have been some rights points with the movie that prevented it from being discovered simply on-line. In truth, DVDs for it had largely been out of print, so even these bodily media of us would possibly’ve been out of luck.
However producer Andrew MacDonald again in February revealed he had purchased the rights again, and he promptly bought the sequel rights to “28 Years Later” to Sony Photos, which included the PVOD rights to “28 Days Later.” Sony doesn’t have its personal streaming service, so it’s unlikely it is going to be made accessible for SVOD streaming within the close to future, however it’s doable the movie will get licensed someplace sooner or later.
“28 Years Later” is being launched theatrically by Sony Photos on June 20, 2025. The movie stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes, and it’s govt produced by Murphy after he starred within the unique.
Deadline reported Monday that the trailer for “28 Days Later” had the second-biggest launch for a trailer for a horror film ever, and it now has 14.6 million views on YouTube at time of writing. Watch it under: