Watch: Aaron-Taylor Johnson & Jodie Comer Flee Zombies in ’28 Years Later’

Sony Pictures has released its first trailer for 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle’s long-awaited zombie apocalypse sequel. Watch: 

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.

If you’re looking for 28 Days Later on streaming, that might be very hard to find. Disney lost the rights to it. 28 Days Later was financed independently and then acquired by Searchlight Pictures, so they seemingly did not control the ownership of the movie. In 2024, the film’s producer, Andrew Macdonald, reacquired the rights to 28 Days Later. He then sold them to Sony Pictures in exchange for Sony producing the next film in the franchise, 28 Years Later.

This meant that for about two years, 28 Days Later had no home for streaming or even a distributor for new home video releases. While Macdonald acquired the rights to 28 Days Later, Disney still owns the rights to 28 Weeks Later since 20th Century Fox funded and released it. In the U.S. it was distributed through the Fox Atomic label, a short-lived brand that 20th Century Fox set up to release genre and comedy films. The 28 Days Later brand seemed a better fit for that than the more awards-friendly Searchlight Pictures. Because Disney still maintains the rights to 28 Weeks Later, it is unclear how much of that film will be referenced in the upcoming 28 Years Later.

28 Years Later will be released June 20.

via The Hollywood Reporter