Is Cillian Murphy Returning as a Zombie?

Lace up your trainers and prepare to return to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s world of fleet-footed zombies as a result of “28 Years Later” has its first official trailer.

The third installment within the “28 Days Later” franchise sees Boyle and Garland return to their respective roles within the franchise as director and author, having served as govt producers on Juan Carlos Fersnadillo’s 2007 sequel “28 Weeks Later.”

The movie is led by franchise newcomers Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes, who’re seen all through the creepy trailer combating off zombies. Although unique film star Cillian Murphy had been reported to be reprising his position as Jim along with being an govt producer, he seems absent from the trailer and isn’t listed as a forged member within the promotional materials. Nevertheless, the brand new trailer includes a notably jarring clip of a zombie that some on social media speculated bears a resemblance to the Oscar winner. (Columbia Footage didn’t instantly reply to Selection‘s request for touch upon the matter.)

Different new forged members embody Erin Kellyman and Jack O’Connell. The movie’s official synopsis reads: “It’s been nearly three many years for the reason that 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 properly.”

“28 Years Later” will function the primary in a trilogy of sequel movies spearheaded by Boyle and Garland. It shot back-to-back with “28 Years Later II: The Bone Temple,” the second movie within the trilogy, directed by Nia DaCosta.

The movie was shot by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle utilizing an iPhone 15 Professional Max. Andrew MacDonald and Peter Rice will function producers alongside Garland and Boyle. “28 Years Later” is produced by Columbia Footage in affiliation with BFI, DNA Movies, and Decibel Movies. The movie can be launched June 20, 2025.

Watch the trailer under.