Trailer has fans guessing over Cillian Murphy’s fate

It has been fairly the wait, however the highly-anticipated follow-up to horror movies 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007) is out subsequent summer season, with followers getting their first style of what is in retailer, from the trailer for 28 Years Later.

Many have been fast to identify what seemed to be a zombie incarnation of Cillian Murphy’s bike courier Jim, from 28 Days Later, who survived an apocalypse in opposition to very steep odds.

He seemingly pops up within the newest trailer behind Jodie Comer’s character in a area, wanting a lot the more severe for put on – which is hardly stunning whether it is certainly him.

There had been hypothesis and hope amongst some followers that the Oppenheimer Oscar-winner would return to the franchise.

However Murphy’s title is absent from promotional posters for the most recent movie, though he’s credited as government producer on the Sony Footage web site.

The newest movie stars Killing Eve star Comer, The Fall Man’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Conclave star Ralph Fiennes – with all three seen combating off zombies within the trailer.

28 Years Later is ready practically three a long time after the primary movie, when a “rage virus” which disastrously contaminated people escaped a organic weapons laboratory.

We meet a bunch of survivors within the third movie, dwelling in quarantine on a small island, having managed to keep away from changing into contaminated.

However when one in all them leaves the island on a mission to the mainland, he discovers secret horrors which have mutated not solely these contaminated, however survivors as properly.

The movie’s tagline is: “Time did not heal something.”

The trailer opens with a throwback to standard kids’s TV present Teletubbies, which first aired in 1997, with a number of kids gathered round an previous TV because the chirpy theme tune performs innocuously – but menacingly – within the background.

The motion quickly kicks off with a number of flashes of battle scenes as an ominous, rhymic recording of Rudyard Kipling’s warfare poem, Boots, is heard within the background.

A church has its home windows smashed in, earlier than the digicam descends on a rural island that includes wood crosses dotted throughout the earth with rosary beads hanging on them.

Some graffiti is seen on what appears like a farm dwelling: “Behold he’s coming with the clouds” – a verse from chapter one of many Bible’s e book of Revelation, with “Jimmy” scrawled subsequent to it in white paint.

May this be a reference to Murphy’s character Jim?

Taylor-Johnson then stalks his manner by means of inexperienced fields with a bow and arrow and there are some gory clips that are (fortunately) exhausting to make out.

A pile of skulls is proven in the course of a clearing earlier than the zombie determine, which can or will not be Murphy, makes a quick look.

Comer can also be seen cradling a child.

A number of folks on social media joked about Murphy’s doable look, with one quipping: “Technique appearing that will even disgrace Christian Bale,” whereas others bemoaned the very fact they felt the fleeting shot was a spoiler.

The unique movie was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, who famously stated it was not a zombie movie, though it was credited with serving to immediate a revival within the style.

28 Weeks Later, which was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who additionally co-wrote it, starred Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne and Robert Carlyle.

Garland and Boyle have returned for the third movie, with each additionally producing it as properly.

28 Years Later might be launched on 20 June.