What is going to humanity change into? Or, maybe extra urgent, what has Cillian Murphy’s 28 Days Later hero change into? Following the discharge of the primary trailer for the long-awaited horror sequel 28 Years Later, followers suppose they could have noticed Murphy’s return…and it’s an actual shocker.
Whereas it has been confirmed that Murphy will reprise the function of Jim, a bicycle courier who awakes from a coma within the post-apocalypse, the Oscar winner’s title unusually doesn’t seem on any of the newly launched posters or within the forged listing alongside the footage. And the explanation why might be horrifying.
Followers have taken to social media to make observe of a very emaciated zombie glimpsed in direction of the top of the trailer. A zombie that appears an entire lot like Cillian Murphy. There is no mistaking these cheekbones. All we find out about Murphy’s return up to now comes courtesy of govt producer Tom Rothman, who beforehand teased that the 28 Days Later star can be again “however in a shocking approach and in a approach that grows, let me put it that approach.” And discovering Jim has a zombie would definitely be about as “shocking” as potential.
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However may there be extra to it? Is it potential that this Cillian Murphy-looking zombie is nothing greater than a pretend out? The actor was seemingly noticed wanting much more human in a number of pictures from filming, and whereas he’s additionally onboard as an govt producer, he actually seemed like he was dressed for the post-apocalypse somewhat than visiting set.
Regardless of the case could also be, followers have been reacting to this potential (and terrifying) shot of the Cillian Murphy zombie glimpsed within the 28 Years Later trailer. “I knew it seemed like him. Hopefully it’s only a fake-out,” mentioned X/Twitter consumer @LFAFSTYLE, with @Oliver_Demari positing a concept, saying, “It is gonna be a dream sequence, I wager you.” 28 Days Later fan @NEPatriotsBoy, in the meantime, echoes what many are little question feeling, saying, “I assumed he was alive? What the f*ck???? That is upsetting if this true for followers of the primary film.”
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First Trailer for Lengthy-Awaited Horror Sequel ‘28 Years Later’ Is Unleashed
In spite of everything this time, we return to Danny Boyle’s rage-fueled zombie franchise.
Directed by Danny Boyle, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Garland, 28 Years Later stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman, and Edvin Ryding Alongside the primary footage from 28 Years Later, we additionally now have an official plot synopsis, which you’ll take a look at under.
“Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated author Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set on the earth created by 28 Days Later. It’s been nearly three many years because the rage virus escaped a organic weapons laboratory, and now, nonetheless in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have discovered methods to exist amidst the contaminated. One such group of survivors lives on a small island linked to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of many group leaves the island on a mission into the darkish coronary heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as effectively.”
- Launch Date
- June 20, 2025
- Essential Style
- Horror