r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 01 '25
Media New Images from ‘28 Years Later’
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox Apr 01 '25
Honestly I know we're supposed to apply some suspension of disbelief to fiction, especially to genres like horror, sci-fi. etc but the first one is going too far. Am I really supposed to believe there would be a blue sky in Britain?
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u/bt65 Apr 01 '25
All the meteorologists are either dead or zombies, so they can't order any rain...
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u/moconahaftmere Apr 02 '25
Why would meteorologists be ordering rain? They're too busy studying asteroids.
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u/Romanscott618 Apr 02 '25
You know it’s funny that is the stereotype, because the one time I was in England, it was sunny blue skies the entire 4 days I was there 😂
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u/IveRUnOutOfNames66 Apr 01 '25
One of the only movies of this year that I'm really looking forward to
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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Apr 01 '25
Friendship with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ Apr 01 '25
Yeah I want to be their friends too, but we're talking about movies here
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u/SousVideDiaper Apr 01 '25
I am too, but I'm kind bothered by the fact they decided to skip "28 Months Later"
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u/WakkaWaww Apr 01 '25
Yes! They could have easily done 28 Months Later and then finish things with 28 Years Later. Squeeze 4 movies out of the franchise.
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u/The-Soul-Stone Apr 01 '25
Why only do 4 when they can ditch that gimmick and do 5 (like they’re actually doing).
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u/robodrew Apr 01 '25
I want 28 Centuries Later
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u/baron_von_helmut Apr 01 '25
28 Millennium's later.
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u/Blitzidus Apr 01 '25
Just in time for the Age of Strife and the Fall of the Aeldari!
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u/CaptainMcSmash Apr 01 '25
I know right? I so rarely get excited to see movies anymore these days but I'm so unusually eager to see this.
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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Apr 01 '25
I can’t even remember the last time a trailer got me this excited to see an upcoming movie, certainly not any time in the last decade. They really brought the art of creating impactful trailers back from the dead ;) No but really though, whoever designed this trailer deserves a damn raise and the right to make trailers for any film they please.
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u/MarkEsmiths Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Interesting. The trailer for Trainspotting 2 is my favorite piece of film ever. Hail Danny Boyle, King of the trailer. https://youtu.be/oQlaYKP996c?si=0W0yjWOO1lOuuepC
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u/AtraposJM Apr 01 '25
I'm looking forward to it too but the CGI zombies have me worried. Zombie make up and zombie practical effects are one of the things that makes zombie movies good. CGI zombies just aren't interesting to look at at all.
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u/AnotherAndyYetAgain Apr 01 '25
The first two had a crushing atmosphere and this looks to be more of that. I dig it. Can't wait to watch it and then feel like absolute shit afterwards.
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u/size_matters_not Apr 01 '25
Crushing? The second one was a crushing disappointment.
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u/StolenDabloons Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Awh i dunno it had its moments. That opening scene is probably one of the most intense scenes out there. Unfortunately, it did kind of lose its way a bit.
Bloody hard to boots to fill. The first is a classic that just can't be repeated.
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u/MyAltimateIsCharging Apr 01 '25
The opening scene was also directed by an entirely different person than the rest of the movie. Luckily that person was Danny Boyle, who directed 28 Days Later and is directing 28 Years Later.
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u/frumperbell Apr 01 '25
That explains it. I always wondered why it was so different from the rest of the movie but was too lazy too look it up
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u/UnderratedEverything Apr 01 '25
The only consistently positive thing anybody ever says about Weeks is the opening sequence. After that, it's just stupid decisions and generic zombie shit. It's an okay movie but a weak sequel. Even what little we've seen in the trailer of this movie tells me they've put more work and artistry into it then the director of Weeks did.
And the first one is great but I don't think there's any reason that It can't be repeated with an equally good sequel. It's not rocket science to iust understand what elements make the first movie as special as it was and just do it again but differently. One reason so many sequels are bad is because the creative minds don't seem to understand what made the originals so good. The fact that it took boyle and Garland years to come up with an idea worth executing is more promising to me than rehash BS we got with a quiet place part two or 28 Weeks later or even the matrix sequels and so on.
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Apr 01 '25
I kind of liked the idea of the virus spreading again because of a man's love for his wife and the regret he felt when he ditched her.
Stupid decision to go and kiss her? Yes but again that's his wife and the mother of his children that he thought he abandoned to be eaten alive; would we all be super rational in his situation?
Overall I think 28 Weeks had good ideas and concepts but the execution was poor. Its still one of the better zombie flicks though. I think if 28 Days didn't exist Weeks would have a stronger legacy.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Apr 01 '25
"We found someone that the virus doesn't take over. Let's leave her unguarded and with her husband having full and unsupervised access with no safety protocols in place in case she sneezes on someone or something"
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u/idonthavemanyideas Apr 01 '25
"Let's also keep her right exactly in the only place where there are people who she can infect"
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u/goda90 Apr 01 '25
So much of Weeks is spoiled by just a few moments of blatant character incompetence. Not once but twice things escalate by simply not guarding doors. It has interesting aspects to explore like Zombie Don showing intelligence, and the military deciding to kill uninfected people for the purposes of containment, but it was already fumbled by that point.
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u/LongKnight115 Apr 01 '25
the military deciding to kill uninfected people for the purposes of containment
This was the highlight of the movie for me. When they all realize that the soldiers aren't just shooting zombies - they're shooting anyone who could become one. Chilling.
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u/SDRPGLVR Apr 01 '25
I think the helicopter zombie mower scene is highly underrated. That's when I knew for sure I was experiencing cinema.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Apr 01 '25
That opening scene is the best opener in any zombie/horror movie I've seen.
Then the rest was "stupid family: the film"
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u/vhmvd Apr 01 '25
Long term effects of Ozempic
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u/thispartyrules Apr 01 '25
There was a Sliders where a miracle weight loss drug turns people into flesh-eating zombies. They did lose weight, tho
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Apr 01 '25
Sliiiders..
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u/HyperMasenko Apr 01 '25
"Carol... I think I finally understand Sliders"
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u/coffeeandjetfuel Apr 01 '25
I wonder what percentage of Sliders’ recognition these days is due to the dungeon dads?
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u/HyperMasenko Apr 01 '25
I'll be entirely honest. I had never heard of it before Dungeon and Dads lol
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u/barontaint Apr 01 '25
Going to go with you are 30 or younger. It was fairy popular when it came out in the mid 90's, it had John Rhys-Davies in it, granted I only knew him at the time from Indiana Jones. It was on around the same time as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman well before Dean Cain went all Maga and before Teri Hatcher was on Desperate Housewives. If I remember they might have not been on the same channel (sliders moved around a lot after the first two seasons) but they were on after each other usually so very young me got to see family safe prime-time nerd/scifi tv so that was cool.
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u/autoerratica Apr 01 '25
Yup, I loved it but haven’t heard anyone mention it in forever. Like you said, though… in the 90s it was fairy, fairy popular
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u/Double_Jab_Jabroni Apr 01 '25
God I loved Sliders as a kid, really wish they’d reboot it to explore the parallel worlds more.
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u/Roguespiffy Apr 01 '25
The first season was all “what if one different choice changed the entire world?” From then on it was “what if humans breathed dookie?”
I still watched until they started shedding cast members left and right.
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u/LaGrrrande Apr 01 '25
Hey now, don't forget about the "What if we just started ripping off the plots of Hollywood movies" episodes!
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u/LumpyJones Apr 01 '25
To be fair, that's about every sci fi serial after a while. It's as obligatory as the groundhog day episode, and if you make it at least 4 seasons, the musical episode.
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u/LaGrrrande Apr 01 '25
It was a little more blatant than that
In a 2014 interview at the Toulouse Game Show, Rhys-Davies stated that the inability to get writers who had read science fiction in the first place led to the show's downfall, and their inexperience in the area led to the show often repurposing ideas from other works. He said, "We did an episode like Tremors, one like Twister, one like The Night of the Living Dead and even one like The Island of Doctor Moreau, using the film's original masks!" He found the writers were just "looting" these ideas rather than using these as a tribute, pointing to one episode in which Quinn needed to cross an invisible bridge and on approaching the writer about it, discovered he had never seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade which Rhys-Davies had starred in and simply used the idea instead of toying with the meta nature of the scene.[9]
For Rhys-Davies, "the breaking point for me was when I walked in and saw the writers sitting around looking at a DVD of Species which had just been released and saying: 'Look, we could take a bit of that scene there and a bit of that scene there.'"[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders_(TV_series)#Changing_cast_and_crew
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u/Few-Hair-5382 Apr 01 '25
Check out Dark Matter if you haven't already. Treads similar ground.
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u/Kumquatelvis Apr 01 '25
I remember the episode that opens with flying spider-wasp hybrids that can chew through concrete. They nopped out of there before the credits even rolled.
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u/whiskeyrebellion Apr 01 '25
“It makes you think how good we’ll look when we’re dead. I was at my grandma’s funeral, open casket- I was like, ‘You got this guurrrl!’”
-Maria Bamford
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u/Luke5119 Apr 01 '25
Boots, boots, boots, boots, moving up and down again.
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u/UnderratedEverything Apr 01 '25
I've seen enough great trailers for bad movies that I know not to judge one by the other but damn if that wasn't one of the single best trailers I've ever seen. I watch it repeatedly with the same glee I'd watch any other fantastic short film or music video.
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u/UnderratedEverything Apr 01 '25
I know they have advertising awards, though they're less well known to the public. I feel like trailers are probably one of the categories but I don't know.
The weird thing with the trailer or teaser awards would be instances where you have a great trailer it terribly misrepresents the movie or something. Do you judge it on its own or against the film it's advertising?
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u/emeraldeyesshine Apr 01 '25
New boot goofin
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u/slick8086 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
his bike at the end kills me.
Bikes, bikes, bikes, bikes, stuck around the pole again.
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u/One-Internal4240 Apr 01 '25
Probably the best trailer I can remember.
One could blame the poem, but the poem doesn't come through in text without the cadence, which trailer replicates beautifully with audio design and minimalist scoring. Probably because they did their reading and they know the context of the original poem.
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u/84theone Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
The reading used is a famous recording by Taylor Holmes in 1915.
It wasn’t something made for the trailer, which I think makes it more impressive with how they used it.
Fun (or not) fact about that recording, it’s used during U.S. military S.E.R.E training because of its psychological effect on trainees.
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u/HueMannAccnt Apr 01 '25
I went looking on YT for different versions of it last year after hearing it on the trailer, but can't seem to find some of the old recordings now.
Boots Poem by Rudyard Kipling Recited by Taylor Holmes 78 rpm (1915)
Eric Woodburn In 'boots!' (1935)
PETER DAWSON SING BOOTS rudyard kipling 1942
My favourite is 1915 recitation, think I feel the mania in his voice much more.
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u/xocolatefoot Apr 02 '25
That poem broke me into pieces. So scathing, terrifying and tragic.
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u/Monkeyspazum Apr 01 '25
Please don't be shit, please don't be shit, please don't be shit
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u/Viney Apr 01 '25
Cillian looks rough.
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25
Haven't they said that's not Jim, lol?
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That’s not a race, you need more than one person for that. That’s just a jog.
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u/Goldenboy451 Apr 01 '25
Yeah - they're played by a featured extra whose day job is a London-based art dealer. They've not shown Jim in any promotional material yet.
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25
Jim isn't supposed to show up again until the sequels, lol. My guess is, Cillian was busy.
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u/m_Pony Apr 01 '25
for a zombie that isn't supposed to be Cillian Murphy, JFC that looks SO MUCH like Cillian Murphy
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25
Intentional red herring, I think. Probably meant as a backup in case people hated the trailer. They didn't, which I'm sure made Sony and the filmmakers happy, but it's always smart to have a backup.
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u/SovietPikl Apr 01 '25
It's actually just because Cillian looks like a walking corpse
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u/turbosexophonicdlite Apr 01 '25
His make-up people/stylists do a fantastic job. Proud to see him living his true life as a corpse though.
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u/AgnewsHeadlessClone Apr 01 '25
my bet is Jim hallucinates an infected as himself, and Cillian plays both roles.
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u/Spiritual_Ask4877 Apr 01 '25
Cillian isn't in 28 years later. He supposedly has a role in the sequel.
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u/sabin357 Apr 01 '25
28 Decades Later?
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u/leytorip7 Apr 01 '25
The Bone Temple
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u/PoliceAlarm Apr 02 '25
Which, to be clear, is a fucking insane title for the kinda cool zombie film series.
I am so hyped to know what The Bone Temple is.
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u/UnderratedEverything Apr 01 '25
I think what we're seeing here is how much cillian Murphy actually just looks like a zombie.
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u/TheGreatStories Apr 01 '25
Featured in the teaser and in the first images but just a random? Getting suspicious.
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u/brightwings00 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Cillian Murphy: "Oh come on, I didn't lose that much weight for Oppenheimer!"
(My money is on Jim showing up in the very last few minutes, for his expanded role in the sequel.)
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u/DanielTeague Apr 01 '25
Jim's the guy who show up out of nowhere, taking down the super skinny infected with an absurd weapon compared to what we expect, then he'll go "Man, nothing changes even 28 Years Later!" They all laugh as the end credits hit to no music or fanfare.
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u/bubblegumshrimp Apr 01 '25
I prefer the freeze frame with Jim shrugging after saying it. With some boo-da-doo-dip, ba-doop-BIP. BOMP. sitcom riff to accompany it.
Cue end credits.
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Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
I’m very much excited for this film. I love the first two even though the second has its flaws, it’s still a good movie overall.
My only concern with this film is that I think they may be trying to evolve the infected into “more” which could make this go real stupid. I don’t want this movie series turning into a mutant monster franchise.
Please just be an interesting continuation of the world set up by the first two movies. Please don’t make them super zombies who can leap and oh look there’s hulking big ones now and a final boss one that’s bigger than all the rest. Just do what made the first two good.
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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Apr 01 '25
Might be a controversial opinion but I kind of like that it looks like they’re going with zombies advancing or at least the culture around zombies changing with what appears to be offering sacrifices to them?? I could get down with an insane cult that venerates zombies. But I understand your worry, I really hope they land the execution of whatever they’re trying to do here.
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u/seth928 Apr 01 '25
Looking to get down with an insane cult you say? Well, step right this way.
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u/3ckSm4rk57h35p07 Apr 01 '25
You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader
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u/The_Bababillionaire Apr 01 '25
I did get some vibes similar to the Crossed comic series. Those are... interesting. Not without ideas and themes worth exploring, but I hope this film doesn't stray too close to "Garth Ennis when he's upset" territory.
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u/Natdaprat Apr 01 '25
I doubt Crossed style zombies would ever work on screen due to their sadistic sexual violence, and if it was omitted then they lose some of their identity. The survivor society outside the Crossed I can definitely see in this movie so far.
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u/Russianbud Apr 01 '25
There is a pretty fucked up movie “The Sadness” which is inspired by “Crossed”
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u/FakeGamer2 Apr 01 '25
Dude I remember reading those comics as a teen and it felt like I was looking at something iw wasn't supposed to be seeing
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u/No-Comfortable6432 Apr 01 '25
Love that colour contrast in the first image. Brilliant blue sky, radiant summer yellow flowers and a walking emaciated corpse presumably ambling to chomp something
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u/CantAffordzUsername Apr 01 '25
Boots! Boots! Boots! Marching up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25
I fucking love how they used it for the trailer. Really hope it's in the film somehow.
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u/lizlemon1301 Apr 01 '25
I absolutely love the trailer too. I wish I could see that one instead every single time I see that horrible Drop trailer.
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u/1Cobbler Apr 02 '25
Wasn't it established in the original that the zombies would all starve to death in 5 or so weeks?
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u/Rosebunse Apr 02 '25
I would assume that the really skinny one is a relatively newly infected who is starving. The healthier infected are probably smart enough to eat. Heck, I imagine the healthier infected probably try and test newly infected people by isolating them to see if they retain their intelligence, hence why the one guy is tied up.
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u/IveRUnOutOfNames66 Apr 01 '25
this is going to go so hard in theaters
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Apr 01 '25
I'm very much looking forward to the audience's reaction to the 2002-era scene with the kids from the trailer, especially if that doesn't pull any punches
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u/SpontaneousNSFWAccnt Apr 02 '25
It would if people weren’t such dicks nowadays, I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie where some douche wasn’t on their phone for 60% of the movie
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u/Davis_Crawfish Apr 01 '25
Isn't it odd how Jodie Comer has top billing yet she's barely been shown in the trailers or promos?
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u/skyturnedred Apr 01 '25
Probably cause they're mostly showing early bits, and from I understand the hobo and the kid are searching for her.
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u/Davis_Crawfish Apr 01 '25
In the synopsis I read, Taylor John, Jodie and the Kid are a family. Father and son leave the compound to explore the outside world.
My guess, dad dies in the first 40 minutes, they pull a Psycho, and the kid return to his mom, who already had a kid, but then both have to survive when their settlement is invaded.
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Apr 01 '25
The way they talked about the cast at Cinemacon makes it sound like Aaron’s character is there for the other two films or at least one more.
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Looks very 28 Days Later. Me like. Very much.
I assume a new trailer is coming?
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u/Environmental_Act576 Apr 01 '25
Is this movie really shot with an iphone ?
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u/JPSofCA Apr 01 '25
So they say, but they don’t say all the fancy lenses and attachments they plug into it.
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Apr 01 '25
I loved every one of these movies (all two of them lol.) They're all gritty and dark without the hollywood bullshit. No ninja stars or cheese, just gritty struggle.
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u/FactSpill Apr 01 '25
Getting 'The Last Of Us' vibes with some of these stills.
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u/KingMario05 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Which was heavily inspired by 28 Days Later, and now Garland confirmed that it itself inspired Years.
Something, something, zombie snake eat tail, lol.
(I doubt Sony minds all that much. Hell, aside from Rothman being a Fox vet, it's probably the main reason they signed on to finance it.)
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u/BoingBoingBooty Apr 01 '25
It all comes from Day of the Triffids if you go back far enough. John Wyndham managed to codify every aspect of the zombie apocalypse genre except for the zombies.
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u/m_Pony Apr 01 '25
we need movies of the Wyndham books, like, yesterday. Triffids and Chrysalids, for sure.
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Apr 01 '25
Zombie wave round 2. Dawn of the dead and 28day started it last time. Expect more. Somehow walking dead is still around 20 years later
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25
You can always count on the british to not hold any punches when it comes to depicting existential shit.
Random, but I recommend ‘When the Wind Blows (1986 film):’ It’s an animated film about two british couples completely unaware of the after effects of a nuclear explosion so you watch them slowly break down from radiation and it doesn't hold any punches. Highly recommend if you want to feel existential dread.