First Poster Is Here For Danny Boyle’s 28 YEARS LATER

The highly anticipated and long-awaited 3rd film in the 28 DAYS LATER series debuts next summer.

Opening in cinemas on June 20, 2025 is 28 YEARS LATER and Sony Pictures has dropped the first poster for the film starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell. The film is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.

Both 28 DAYS LATER and 28 WEEKS LATER were box office successes. Danny Boyle’s 2002 sleeper hit grossed $64,232,714 worldwide. It starred Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson. The “Rage Virus” origin story made BRAVO’s 100th spot on their list of ‘The 100 Scariest Movie Moments’ in a four-episode 2004 television series.

Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s follow-up took in $65,048,725 globally. Twenty eight weeks after a virus has wiped out all human life in the UK, the island is declared safe, and people start to move back, only to be attacked by thousands who have been infected by a new airborne version of the rage virus. The film starred Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots and Idris Elba.

Read The Hollywood Reporter’s 2018 terrific piece on 28 DAYS LATER’s “ability to make zombies terrifying.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/have-get-a-quiet-place-killed-zombie-genre-1121491/.

DAWN OF THE DEAD, ZOMBIELAND, WORLD WAR Z, TRAIN TO BUSAN, WARM BODIES, and SHAUN OF THE DEAD are perfect examples of how 28 DAYS LATER influenced the zombie genre. It was cool to LOVE zombie films. It still is. THE WALKING DEAD and THE LAST OF US are super successful, with no signs of stopping.

An announced fourth installment of the series, 28 YEARS LATER PART II: THE BONE TEMPLE, was shot back-to-back with 28 YEARS LATER, directed by Nia DaCosta, with Boyle and Garland returning as writers and producers and Murphy reprising his role.