Sony Pictures has released its first trailer for 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle‘s long-awaited zombie apocalypse sequel.
In the clip we see a brief, but bloody, run through of what happened 10,228 days earlier, as a zombie infestation overruns an unsuspecting U.K. “Days became weeks” and then “weeks became years” as we zero in on a remote island of survivors who have seemingly regressed to a more simple society (think bows and arrows for hunting). Somehow the zombies have reached this isolated rural idyll and things go south fast. In the trailer we also get our first glimpses of Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer, and a very bloodied and harassed looking Ralph Fiennes.
The film’s official description: “Sometime after the events of 28 Weeks Later, the Rage Virus has returned, and a group of survivors must survive in a world ravaged by hordes of the infected.”
After starring in the 2002 original, Cillian Murphy is set to play a part in 28 Days Later, but the Oscar-winner seems to be absent from the first trailer, although feverish social media speculation has already coalesced around the idea that Murphy is the zombie that pops up during the chase scene in the fields.
Alongside Taylor-Johnson, Comer and Fiennes, the film stars Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman and Edvin Ryding. Original writer Alex Garland has also returned to pen the script along with Boyle.
The film was shot back-to-back with yet another sequel, 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple. The project is directed by Nia DaCosta, written by Boyle and Garland, and also starring Murphy.
28 Years Later will be released June 20.
