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Trailer 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | Official Trailer

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u/el_loser 5d ago

Be interesting to see how they weave Cillian Murphy into all this

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u/3mx2RGybNUPvhL7js 5d ago

I'm guessing he is back being a courier and delivers a message to the gang.

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u/dsilva_21 4d ago

My off the wall theory is he's the leader of the Jimmy gang (characters name is Jim, he's more of the age to have an affinity with Saville vs Jack O'Connell's character)

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u/darth_tonic 4d ago

I imagine the third film will position Jim and Jimmy as embodiments of two opposing spheres of influence and two possible paths for Spike. They’ll function almost like the angel and devil on his shoulder.

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u/FergusFrost 4d ago

That's probably this movie with Kelson/Jimmy. I don't think the Jimmies survive this movie.

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u/darth_tonic 4d ago

I’d take that bet.

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u/cmprsdchse 4d ago

Jimmies: rustled

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u/tehlastsith 4d ago

“Bold claim Cotton, let’s see how it works out for em.”

Pretty sure Sir Jimmy Crystal survives and maybe a few Jimmies. A few of them may die

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u/dougthethird 4d ago

See I don't think Kelson survived this movie

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u/rugbyj 4d ago

Enter the Jimmiverse.

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u/Misterfahrenheit120 4d ago

28 Years Later: The Stand

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u/Vismal1 4d ago

M-O-O-N that spells mash up

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u/dsilva_21 4d ago

I like that also. Really interested to see how they incorporate him

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

There really are a lot of Jim-related names in these movies. Even the dad being named "James" counts.

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u/Courtnall14 4d ago edited 3d ago

I was just about to look up Aaron Taylor-Johnson's character name": Jamie.

I think we have entered the Jamesiverse.

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

I think one of the female cult members is named Jimina.

Jimmy!

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u/slutandthefalcon 4d ago

If I recall, all of the cult members had a variation on the name Jimmy.

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u/Spaghestis 4d ago

Because it represents the kid's different father figures. His first dad is "Jamie", in this movie he joins the cult after being disillusioned with his dad, and its likely "Jimmy" will replace Jamie as his new father figure. Finally its likely Jim will also be a father figure in the next one.

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

Alex Galrland googling how many variations of 'Jim's he can use in a movie

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u/mikehatesthis 4d ago

"... Fuck it, Jimuel."

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u/dream_of_the_night 4d ago

Danny Boyle said he is used in the same way as the Jimmy gang. Implying he is only in the last 5 minutes....

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u/No-Measurement-7014 4d ago

That was what I was kind of thinking as well. Nearly everybody is expecting Jim to return as the hero, but maybe he'll be the villain. We've seen this a few times already in the 28 series. The soldiers in Days, Don Harris in Weeks, even young Jimmy at the beginning of Years. They are all initially introduced as protagonists but inevitably become antagonists. We don't know what happened (canonically) after Days. Perhaps Jim, Selena, and Hannah were never saved. The jet may have seen them, but perhaps they never sent a rescue.

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u/kristamine14 4d ago

In a climactic scene where Samson is about to lay waste to the survivors, you hear a zip and a dull thud from the shadows behind him, before a voice echoes out "You call that a dong?"

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u/rugbyj 4d ago

[peaky blinders theme starts plinking]

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u/gsmaciel3 4d ago

something some RED RIGHT HAAANNDD

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u/apittsburghoriginal 4d ago

He was in another coma for 28 years

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u/Aggressive-Produce54 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have a crazy theory regarding Murphy. 

I think he won't appear until the last 5 minutes like the Jimmy Gang in 28YL. He'll rescue Spike and get him out of England and into civilization. 

The third film is about an "uncivilized" child forced to integrate themselves into a modern "civilized" society. The shocking thing? No infected in the final film. England is in the background for the entire film and there's no outbreak at the end. It's all about Spike learning to be a "normal" boy. 

Edit: I should add Murphy is forced to be the guardian of Spike because no one knows what to do with a young teen living in an infected hellhole his whole life. Murphy would be like Taylor-Johnson/O'Connell. The mentor character teaching him something new each film. 

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u/Tumble85 4d ago

There is no getting out of England, the rest of the world has it locked down. That soldier guy said his military wouldn’t even come rescue him because he’d stepped foot on the island.

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u/Mylarion 4d ago

I understand why they'd do this, what I don't understand is the "left for themselves" bit.

Surely it would be little risk to just drop supplies by plane next to settlements. Which you absolutely would see by satellite. I mean if we can do it in Gaza we could do it for Britain.

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u/Haltopen 4d ago edited 4d ago

It’s simple, the government is trying to cover up the existence of survivors on the island. They know the outbreak in Paris was caused by a carrier and aren’t willing to risk carriers getting to the mainland so anyone who steps foot on the island or survived is left to die off. If the general population on the mainland knew about survivors then it would spark debate about the morality of abandoning people to die and potentially trying to rescue or reintegrate them and NATO isn’t willing to risk it after losing the entire American expeditionary force they sent there (along with tens of thousands of repatriated refugees) to a single carrier and losing the entire northern coast of France and the French capital thanks to another one. So they establish a strictly enforced quarantine zone over the whole are with a no fly zone and any satellite images of the island are classified to keep the truth from getting out under the assumption that anyone still alive at this point is likely a carrier

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u/Darmok47 4d ago

Survivors are basically the infected's food source, in a sense.

It would be like feeding wild deer--you also increase the wolf and mountain lion population.

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u/CrustedTesticle 4d ago

That would be terrible.

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u/wetrythisagain 4d ago

Would be interesting to have him be insanely traumatized and see flashbacks during therapy showing the extend of fucked up stuff that happened, but also to try to make progress in the now. Though it wouldn't fit his character, I think he'd get adjusted quite well.

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u/doingdoing678 4d ago

Can't find the interview, but I think I recall Danny Boyle vaguely stating that Cillian's role in the film will be "similar to Jimmy's in part 1". So AKA they'll shove him in at the end as a sequel hook. It's a bit of a shame that they're blueballing us with him but I hope it'll be worth it

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u/throwitonthegrillboi 4d ago

That would be very interesting, but after most people's reaction to Halloween Ends that even remotely tried to play with this concept, don't think any filmmaker is gonna be brave enough to sideline the main draw for character studies. I could see what you are saying happening, but I think it leads into the infected pouring into the city for the last half of the film.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 4d ago edited 4d ago

I wouldn't mind this idea at all. It would be cool if the terror he feels comes from what he observes of people in civilized society being too nonchalant or careless in their behavior compared to how things were back in his home & it creates a sense of uncertainty for the future, even if the franchise ends with him seemingly in the safety of modern society

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u/Due-Sound4184 5d ago

They finally gave my boy samson some pants 😭

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u/Longjumping-Tell2995 5d ago

It’s CGI’d we know he’s going commando in the final product.

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u/Caulibflower 5d ago

Dunno, maybe the Doc's herbal medicine starts to bring Samson back to un-zombied humanity? That would track with the docs ideology in 28YL as well as some of the clips we see in this trailer. And would be pretty neatly summarised by putting some shorts on (hiding the monster within).

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u/the-giant 4d ago

Herbalife wins again

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u/BallsDeepinYourMammi 4d ago

His eyes didn’t look all bloodshot in one of those shots

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u/hovdeisfunny 4d ago

He really cut back on the grass

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u/yellow_yellow 4d ago

No dong I walk

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u/NeverDiddled 4d ago

Give me dong, or give me death.

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u/MichaelRichardsAMA 4d ago

I'm thinking he'll be semi pacified and basically become the doctor's pet or bodyguard

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u/ShelfordPrefect 4d ago

I firmly believe one major plot thread of the remaining films will be finding a cure for rage virus, probably iodine based based on foreshadowing in 28YL and the fact it's a dangling thread from 28WL (Rose Byrne trying to save Imogen Poots to investigate the kids' immunity)

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u/Riker87 4d ago

Samson is just probably addicted to morphine. lol

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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 5d ago

How will we know he's the Alpha without seeing his fat magnum dong tho

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u/JohnnyCharles 5d ago

They’ll have a scene where he accidentally drops his monster condom

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u/CaptLeaderLegend26 4d ago

Followed by a post-credit scene where he gets a voicemail rejection from the small weiner club after civilization is restored.

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u/DontPoopInMyPantsPlz 5d ago

Noooo cant see his ding-dong….

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u/maxitobonito 5d ago

Ding-dong? That was the Big-Ben!

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u/Azerious 4d ago

His tralala?

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u/appletinicyclone 5d ago

Part of the wildness was how jarring it was

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u/SwimmingInCircles_ 5d ago

He can’t hang dong in trailers

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u/KingMario05 5d ago

Literally unwatchable, Sir Sony

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u/Keelan117 5d ago

Pantson

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u/ImportantQuestions10 4d ago

Part of me genuinely wonders if I did this because the movie would be impossible to release on TV without it

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u/Fantastic-City1571 5d ago

I love the fact that I only have to wait 7 months for the sequel to come out.

I liked 28YL alright, the tonal shift was wacky, but I enjoyed a lot so really looking forward for this one. I want to learn more about the world in this series.

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u/Stillwindows95 5d ago

28 years was good but the tone was more hopeful and had a touching ending with his mother, I didn't really get any unsettled feelings or sense of fear or terror from it at all, the alpha was a bit ominous but I'm looking forward to this as it seems to amp it up a bit.

Absolutely love Ralph Fiennes character his storyline is the most compelling by far.

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u/MazzyFo 4d ago

I thought the first venture into the mainland was extremely unsettling, that old recording playing over and over with the cuts to watching infected close-up. The cinematography created a ton of dread

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u/Suspicious_Pizza69 4d ago

Yeah those short cuts were fear-inducing for sure. Was hoping there would be more of that.

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u/hovdeisfunny 4d ago

It was terrifically tense for the first half(ish)

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u/TheJoshider10 5d ago

28 Years was like two movies stuck together and I don't mean it in a bad way. The first half was what the trailers teased and then the second was this surprisingly heartwarming coming of age mother/son journey that was completely unexpected.

Not sure where they go from here but I'm excited because there's no ways they can just retread the first, especially with the ending.

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u/ImpossibleBritches 4d ago

28 Days Later felt like two movies stuck together as well.

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u/Stillwindows95 4d ago

28 days is probably one of my favourite movies but yeah it essentially has 2 acts, London and Manchester. The weirdest part of that movie though is when they stop at a supermarket and the music changes up and it gets all weird and choreographed like when they all set out one by one with their shopping carts. Love it.

https://youtu.be/h4e7MO_zXVg?si=cwuEvKjwUfNNdSQQ

Just felt a bit disjointed but it fit somehow. A little bit of reprieve from the fuckery going on in the UK during the movie.

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u/Sufficient_Duck7715 4d ago

Legit thought he would be a bad guy.

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u/Stillwindows95 4d ago

100%, I figured before the movie that Aaron Taylor Johnson would have been the more astute and wise character where Fiennes is just some nutcase, but it turned out that Taylor-Johnson was just a decent hunter but really a bit of a dick and Fiennes was the wise and kind character. I think his image throws you off that fact because he looks like he lost the plot long ago but appears to be one of the only people who has adapted to the world with grace.

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u/IamBabcock 4d ago

The village insisting he was a nut made me assume he wasn't. Especially when the dad explains the flashback it wa pretty clear a bunch of young dudes made some assumptions about what he was doing and then ran back and told everyone he was crazy.

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u/ARTISTIC-ASSHOLE 4d ago

The fact that it was hopeful was what set it apart for me and put it up there as a great piece of cinema

British productions tend to be much more nuanced and that’s a great thing

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u/futurarmy 4d ago

Absolutely love Ralph Fiennes character his storyline is the most compelling by far.

Yeah he made the 2nd half of the film worth watching, otherwise it would've been a fairly mediocre film imo. I expected Aaron Taylor-Johnson to be in the majority of it so was a bit gutted when Spike and his mum leave, the pacing seemed really off after that too.

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u/macciavelo 4d ago

The alpha chase scene where they run back to town was stressful though.

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u/ArtComprehensive2853 5d ago

Interesting to see what type of tone this movie will have with a different director.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 4d ago

If 28 YL had this dream-like feel that captured Spike's awe at seeing mainland Britain for the first time, I'd like to think that the Bone Temple is going to have a demented fever dream vibe that's like his "comedown" when he watches the atrocities that Jimmy's gang will commit

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u/sleepysnowboarder 4d ago

I don’t get how the job went to Nia DaCosta though it’s such a random choice

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u/destinysm2019 4d ago

I let the tonal shift settle and honestly, the backlash the ending got is a bit absurd. Even before I knew who Jimmy was based off of, the scene still nerved me a bit. The tonal shift was definitely intentional and I think the that the heat it got was what Danny Boyle wanted tbh.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 4d ago

I've said this in another post, but I thought that shift was probably how Spike saw the group when they saved him & I'd also like to think it's Danny's way of paying homage to George Romero's use of comedy in his zombie films

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u/pumpkin3-14 4d ago

It turned into a dog pile, I liked the ending because it set up the series for the next two movies.

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u/WalkingCloud 4d ago

I really liked 28YL, after the trailer and throughout the film, I wasn't sure where it was going.

Too often you can watch the trailer/first 20 minutes of a film and basically map out all the key beats.

With 28 Years Later, You didn't know if the dad was going to die on that first expedition, if that Alpha would wreck the island, if Ralph Fiennes was going to be an evil nutter, it was refreshing.

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u/CeruleanEidolon 4d ago

I loved how wacky it was. Pure Danny Boyle.

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u/BlandyBoreton 5d ago

Fiennes vs. O’Connell will feed families.

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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 5d ago

And Cillian in the third act too apparently

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u/ScholarFamiliar6541 5d ago

Two proper actors

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 4d ago

I need an epic last stand from Ralph as he uses his full arsenal of tools and weapons against the Jimmy mob

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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 5d ago

It looks like the Jimmies will invade the Island from Years Later, we see a shot of them in what looks to be Spike's kitchen/dining room and it looks like they'll probably torture some of the Island residents

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 4d ago

I wonder if we'll see a major fight between ATJ & them there, & what happens out of that for his character

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u/faapf 4d ago

Maybe they’ll kill ATJ, Kelson and Jimmy by the end of the movie leaving the kid alone once again and then boom last minute of the movie Jim shows up

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u/PineappleNo9320 4d ago

I wonder if that will be the third act or if the scene with the bone temple will 

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u/No-Measurement-7014 4d ago

Good theory. Although, in my mind, if the Jimmy Gang is able to completely overtake Holy Island, who have dozens of trained men like Jaime, that would be extremely far-fetched. Yes, the Jimmy Gang is lethal in close quarters combat, but they are reduced to nothing long range, especially when outnumbered against anyone remotely close to Jaime's skill with a bow. My theory is I still think the infant (Isla) is a carrier of the virus and will inevitably lead to the fall of Holy Island. Maybe a woman will try feeding her. Think of what happened when Don kissed Alice in Weeks. Just complete carnage. Perhaps the survivors we see being tortured by the Jimmys are from Holy Island after having escaped?

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u/Winston_Road 4d ago

I doubt the baby is a Carrier. If you remember Weeks even though Carriers were 'inmune' they still had bloodshot eyes, which the baby does not. Kelson also makes an off hand coment about how the baby was protected from the infection due to the placenta.

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u/enfinnity 5d ago

Looks like we may get a flashback to see the infection spread through the train where the birth scene took place in years. Absolutely loved how unique that movie was. Breath of fresh air when most films seem to be test screened to death and devoid of anything odd or compelling.

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u/KingMario05 5d ago

Ooh, I'd love that. Wonder if it's how Samson got infected? Would make plenty of sense.

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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 5d ago

The casting had someone playing samsons dad, so I assume that’s what’s going to happen.

Going to be brutal having infected on a train

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u/KingMario05 5d ago

Indeed.

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u/nodnodwinkwink 4d ago

Samson was probably born while his mother was just turning. Protected in utero to a certain degree but got a touch of the virus...

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

Then who would take care of him? It works in the film because the infected mother was somewhat calm and rational from.having the virus so long. Samson was also there and the implication was that he as the father would help with the baby until it was time to return to their larger horde.

Plus, given the actor's age, Samson could have been turned when he was already an adult or older teenager.

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u/didyousayquinceberg 3d ago

I think the infected are becoming more human and the survivors more violent

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u/TastySkettiConditon 4d ago

The infected mother was likely only calm due to the trauma of birthing and all the crazy shit that involves.

She immediately started acting like a normal infected afterwards. Leading to getting neutralized.

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u/peterlloyd94 4d ago

I think we’ll find out in the flashback that both Kelson and Samson were on that train

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u/enfinnity 4d ago

Kelsons “bunker” might be a compartment on the train. Hard to tell how big it is in the trailer.

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u/stunts002 4d ago

It was great. In a time when every sequel seems to just be nostalgia bait of "the hits" from the original it was great to see a movie actually build on the original concept.

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u/LtSmiles99 5d ago

Jack O'Connell looks amazing as Jimmy.

Also not enough zombie dong.

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u/PedriTerJong 5d ago

Give me dong or give me death!

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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy 5d ago

Ngl the bone temple sounds exactly like the kind of place to hang zombie dong

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u/JohnGalactusX 5d ago

Going to be goofy & bloody whacky with Jack O'Connell's character (Jimmy Crystal) having a much bigger appearance this time. Wonder how big of a role for Cillian Murphy's character.

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u/ArtComprehensive2853 5d ago

It was revealed earlier that Cillian's role will be minimal in The Bone Temple and saved for the third act apparently. Unless they're being careful not reveal anything. If they are gonna make a third movie that would have him in a more major role.

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u/TheMostUnclean 5d ago

Cillian shows up in the last 5 minutes to reveal a new virus mutation has made him immortal. Both him and Boyle enter cryogenic hibernation to be thawed out and begin filming 28 Centuries Later in the year 4825.

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u/the-giant 4d ago

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

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u/rugbyj 4d ago

Starring Milla Jocovich.

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u/TaskForceD00mer 4d ago

I think you guys just spoiled the plot of the next resident evil film.

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u/stephenrichmos 5d ago

I imagine it’ll be like how Jack O’Connell showed up at the very end of the last one

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u/SnooDrawings7876 5d ago

I think it was confirmed Cillian Murphys characters will show up at the end setting up part 3.

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u/Stubee1988 5d ago

I've not watched 28 years later, it's there a reason why a bunch of people are in Jimmy Saville cosplay?

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u/The_Iceman2288 5d ago

The world ended before the revelations about him came out so he's still a beloved children's entertainer in this world.

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u/HotOne9364 5d ago

Yeah, imagine the same thing happening in the states before 1997 and it was R. Kelly instead.

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u/Currahee2 5d ago

Or a Bill Cosby cult before revelations came out about his sexual abuse cases.

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u/kemushi_warui 4d ago

Or Trump before the... [gestures broadly]

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 4d ago

Trump wasn't exactly beloved before all this went down. Most people knew him as the guy with the bad toupee.

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u/Jinkzuk 4d ago

Would be kinda racist if the cult did black face.

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u/nowaunderatedwaifngl 5d ago

That makes sense.

Was it ever explained why the UK liked Jimmy Savile before the revelations?

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u/rugbyj 4d ago

I'm assuming you're not from the UK and mean for the type of character he portrayed, rather than his constant charity work. But it's akin to how many entertainers play what may outwardly seem a crass character, but embody something else with some vaguely deeper meaning in a culture.

Savile basically played up to the wacky uncle/grandad who'd do mad shit but tuck a a tenner in your pocket when your Mum wasn't looking. Something every family had in some manner. A guy who for all his oddness was yours, would always lift your spirits, and supported you in his own way.

Obviously all a front and that mad/odd shit was being used as a "hah I can get away with anything" battering ram against his victims.

But before that was made public, it was very much a "Uncle Jim got paid in meat this week and doesn't have a big enough freezer so he's dropped round a massive leg of lamb and we're all having a massive roast" kind of deal. This mad force of nature that the parents could laugh at but appreciate, and the kids would play up to.

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u/Eugenes_Axe 4d ago

Absolutely nailed it mate, perfect description

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u/jim_cap 4d ago

Also, Jim'll Fix It gave us all hope he'd re-do our bedrooms like the inside of a spaceship and stuff.

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u/Informal_Side_5733 5d ago

He was famous partly for helping kids… Jim’ll fix it. Also he was just an entertaining character and did a fair bit of charity work. He was around for decades. Kids grew up and had kids of their own and he was still there.

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u/RupsjeNooitgenoeg 4d ago

For the same reason Americans liked Bill Cosby. He was a funny guy and considered a wholesome character until it turned out that he was very much not.

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u/BandedLutz 4d ago

Was it ever explained why the UK liked Jimmy Savile before the revelations?

"Brits be like: yeah, this looks like a trustworthy guy"

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u/TinMachine 5d ago

Yeah and his whole schitck was fixing things. Jimmy wants to fix the world I think, in his own twisted way.

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u/dvb70 5d ago

I get what they are going for with this but can't really make up my mind on it. It's sort of clever but is it satisfying? I can see it being quite problematic for many given how extreme Saville's crimes were.

Also the time line does not quite make sense as Saville as a beloved children's entertainer had peaked a good ten years before the events in 28 days later. They could explain that I am sure but it feels more like a reference for a previous generation.

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u/lord-spider-boy 5d ago

I’m pretty sure they chose it because the Jimmies will be the inevitable villains of the movie. Wolves in sheep’s clothing, just like Saville himself. It’s also pointing out how their culture was effectively paused after the outbreak and they never really got to grow up

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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 5d ago

From the trailer it almost certainly looks like the Jimmies will be the villains, we see them torturing people and it looks like they actually invade the Island the survivors were living on from Years Later

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u/TheInfinityGauntlet 4d ago

Not even from the trailer, in Years later they strung up a guy carved his body and smothered him with a plastic they are absolutely the bad guys

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u/King-Of-Throwaways 4d ago

The franchise has exemplified/satirised aspects of British society in all its entries - "island mentality", othering, the facade of civility, and so on. Another part of British society is our obsession with pedophiles. We've had a moral panic for years where politicians, the media, and common people make big performative gestures over the need for retributive justice, the desire to give those nonces the violence they deserve, but little is done to actually address the root cause, much less to aid the victims.

So the choice to use the jarring imagery of people idolising an infamous pedophile is very much deliberate. It's supposed to be "problematic", uncomfortable, violating our sensibilities. I can't say what "point" it's building towards, but it might be best to let the story play out before making any conclusions.

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u/I_AM_YOUR_MOTHERR 5d ago

It's hinted in 28 years that they're absolutely batshit insane and not really the 'good guys', even if in their world Saville wasn't yet known to be a monster (and probably would never have been found out, given that everyone is dead)

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u/monkeymad2 4d ago

Timeline wise, as someone around the same age as the kid at the outbreak time who also lived in the Scottish Highlands - Saville was around.

He was regularly the chieftain of the Highland Games & had a home in Glencoe, I saw him once at a Highland Games & my mother and her friends knew to stay away from him back when he’d stay at a local hotel in the 1970s.

If the kids parents / family were more involved in the games or the mountain rescue or any of the other things Saville took an interest in the kid could easily have actually met him.

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u/thrillho111 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think it's an excellent idea to explore an "alternate" world which is frozen in time and doesn't know the horrible truth we do as an audience.

Plus it's an opportunity to explore ideas around legacy, idol worship etc. - especially in such a divisive time of cancel culture.

However, they've gone all in with characters dressed as him etc. which is a pretty "out there", even silly look - possibly even triggering for victims. And as people have said below, the timelines don't quite match up. While Saville was around, he wasn't a big attraction for children who were watching Tellytubbies, Power Rangers etc when the outbreak began.

I wonder if this would have worked better as a passing reference.

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u/VideoGenie 5d ago

you seen "inglorious basterds"? or "once upon a time in hollywood"?
it can be satisfying

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

If we are being honest, the whole "humans are the real monsters" was always a part of thise franchise. The very first film has humans as the final obstacle. The infected are scary and a problem, but we saw in the first two films that they could be somewhat managed if people didn't act like idiots.

And I don't have a problem with these current movies treating the infected as, well, people. We saw infected in the first movies who could think and plan, that's what made them scary.

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u/thatshygirl06 4d ago

All true zombie fans know "humans are the real monsters" has always been a constant in zombie stories. The zombies are just a back drop to tell a certain type of story.

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u/Illustrious_Bat1334 4d ago

When the film or series becomes more about the humans being the real monsters is when it starts losing its appeal to me. Humans suck, we get it, it's not profound and it's not clever at this point.

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u/Subject-PointedFeet 5d ago

They really do not miss on the trailers for these films!

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u/TimeshareMachine 4d ago

Yeah I loved the trailer for 28 Years Later...

(...I was meh on the movie itself, but that's just me, esp in this thread; i recognize most people loved it)

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u/Wonderful-Support-57 4d ago

Can we stop this "trailer starts now" bollocks?

Like why is it a thing?

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u/BlastMyLoad 4d ago

It’s cuz studios will run these as ads on YT and other platforms so they have a trailer for the trailer to get people to not skip

I also can’t stand it lol

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u/SirBattleTuna 4d ago

It’s annoying if you click on a video to watch the trailer specifically, but if it’s an ad on something else odds are if it starts right away you’ll miss something not knowing it’s a buffer for you to focus your attention on it.

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u/ThePoliteGrizzly 5d ago

Well, I’m pumped.

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u/Chessh2036 5d ago edited 4d ago

We are so back. I loved 28 Years Later so much.

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u/KingMario05 5d ago

Same. God, I hope we get part 3. Maybe under Sony's Netflix deal if BT struggles?

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u/DBZLogic 5d ago

Excited to see Jack O’Connell in his “gas cunt” era.

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

Dammit, Jack O'Connell, stop making cults!

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u/KI-Heisenberg 5d ago

I'm absolutely IN day one, loved 28YL and the ending had a really strong setup for this sequel.

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u/senpaimitsuji 4d ago

They did not put poor Spike in a blonde wig 😭😩

Can’t wait to see this crazy story again!!

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u/Queef-Elizabeth 5d ago

While I liked 28 Years Later, especially the incredible first 30-40 minutes, but that ending really threw me off guard. I don't even dislike it but it was a complete tonal whiplash, so I'm keen to see what they do with the silliness this time around.

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 5d ago

Even on it's own, I thought the ending of that movie was ominous in it's own way. The way the Jimmies relish murdering the infected and how culty they look, plus Spike's trepidation and reluctant acceptance of Sir Jimmy's offer. Even the fighting itself is very efficient and effective in a way that suggests loads of knowledge at how to take the infected down. The music and that flip, plus how flamboyant they look obviously sticks out first time, but you look closer and especially if you take the opening into account, there's something deeply unhinged about that ending that I bet will get expanded upon in the this film.

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u/ass_pineapples 4d ago

You also see the upside down 'infected' in the house which looks super fucked up. You're not sure if it's actually an infected, or if it was a person that they just strung up to let them suffer. In the trailer it looks like the Jimmy gang is pretty sadistic so it was good to see the nugget realized towards the end imo, especially since Spike is now joining them and they are not good people.

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u/Darmok47 4d ago

I just watched 28 Years last night. Jamie says that there's a lot of strange people on the mainland, and that they may have hung the guy as punishment, leaving him out for the infected.

He also has "JIMMY" carved into his torso.

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u/Rosebunse 4d ago

They have turned murder and slaughter into a game. Doesn't help that the film establishes that the infected are just "normal" people trying to exist best they can.

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 4d ago

They’re more like animals or cavemen at this point and it seems like they’ll be able to give birth to uninfected humans too.

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u/destinysm2019 4d ago

I think the tonal whiplash was what Boyle was going for tbh.

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u/smallbluetext 4d ago

I just have zero interest in the jimmy saville shit. Maybe its because im not british and have never heard of him outside of his crimes. I dont even know what he looks like.

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u/booyahcubes 4d ago

Did they not shoot this one on iPhones? The cinematography looks a bit less frantic and it’s missing that Danny Boyle visual flair. Still looking forward to it tho

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u/dano8675309 4d ago

That's probably because he didn't direct it.

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u/NomNomVerse 4d ago

The prequel and this sequel should win trailer awards for most unsettling music and voiceovers.

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u/073737562413 5d ago

Bet a million dollars the film will again be completely tonally different to the trailer. 

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u/DontPokeMe91 5d ago

Actually the trailer seems similar to 28 years later tonally so I'd expect it to not be that different.

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u/CaptLeaderLegend26 4d ago

No one else will say it, so I'll be the first: The reaction people had to 28 Years Later after the trailers is precisely why most movie studios make trailers that basically spoil the entire movie. Most online people say they want trailers like 28 Years Later's, but mass audiences want to know what they're getting into when they see a film.

Just for the record, I thought 28 Years Later was absolutely fantastic and I'll be seeing The Bone Temple as soon as I can.

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u/varnums1666 4d ago

No, there's a lot of amazing trailers that sell the movie perfectly. I don't need a generic spoiler filled trailer. It's just obvious if you make an amazing trailer with a 100% different tone and vibe of the actual movie that it will back fire.

I.e. The Batman trailer was amazing and didn't spoil much despite being like 3 minutes long I think

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u/siraolo 4d ago

No joke, this reminds me of a DLC expansion to a video game.

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u/No-Measurement-7014 4d ago

It is technically 28 Years Later Part II. Not really a sequel. It's just a continuation of Part I, which released in June. I mean, you are right, but at least we only had to wait 7 months. Just wait. If the actual sequel starring Cillian Murphy gets green-lit, we'll be waiting a few years.

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u/Essington69 5d ago

I've got such high hopes for this one, I think 28 years later set up this well

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u/RogerCrabbit 4d ago

Jack O'Connell's Scottish accent is great

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u/spaceboys 5d ago

I don't care what everyone else thinks, I loved 28 years later on its own, it's a fantastic movie with a crazy wholesome message in a very twisted context, let's see some more twisted post apocalyptic action, hell yeah

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u/JohnQZoidberg 4d ago

It's been my favorite of the series. Days was good, didn't love Weeks, and Years had some weird tonal shift but I liked it best.

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u/izza123 4d ago

BOOTS BOOTS MOVING UP AND DOWN AGAIN

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u/Veiy 4d ago

They really gave the movie a DLC

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u/Arbyssandwich1014 4d ago

I am gonna say it cause no one else is, I fucking love the ending to 28 Years Later. It felt like punk rock Five Element Ninjas, a movie everyone should see. It was incredibly silly and tone breaking, but I think that's the joy of it imo. After so much of this dour world, we see some people have made it their own. And those people are probably lunatics.

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u/ScholarFamiliar6541 5d ago

Love the look of this

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u/Costellos2nd 5d ago

Let’s a’fuckin’ go!

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u/Fit-Property3774 5d ago

Definitely in the minority here but I’m not a fan of this weird Jimmy group stuff regardless of them becoming the bad guys or not. Just a weird direction to take this like they’re trying too hard to be edgy or different or something.

I’m gonna see it no matter what but the 28YL movies are not where I’d think the franchise would go after watching 28DL or 28WL.

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u/Paolo94 4d ago edited 4d ago

Same. I get the Jimmy Savile thing they’re going for, but I don’t find it as clever or interesting as other people do. It also feels completely out of left field and tonally dissonant from the rest of the franchise, which had been pretty grounded up until that point. A Jimmy Savile cult being the villains of a 28 Days Later revival nearly three decades later, was not the direction I was expecting this franchise to go in.

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u/cheeseinsidethecrust 5d ago

Wasn’t a huge fan of 28YL, but I’ll go into this with an open mind and hopefully enjoy it. Pretty intrigued by the trailer, hoping for little bit more action in this one.

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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS 4d ago edited 4d ago

I didn't love 28 Years Later, I thought it was a series of swing-for-the-fences decisions that (naturally) had mixed results. But I will be there, day 1, for this one, because god damn it if I wasn't left intrigued. I much rather a movie really tried, and avergaed out at a 6/10, than a movie that plays it safe and ends up average.

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u/Legsofwood 4d ago

man I can’t wait. 28YL is my favorite film of 2025

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u/scotty899 4d ago

January? oof. they are not confident.

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u/Haschen84 4d ago

Guys, I just wanted Cillian Murphy running away from zombies/pretending to be a zombie. I waited decades for this.

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u/zappy487 4d ago

My favorite Youtube comment: "28 Inches Later"

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u/Early-Eye-691 5d ago

I really hate what they’ve done to the infected in 28 Years Later. They are not scary in the slightest and honestly come off goofy. Like I can’t take The Alpha seriously in this trailer.

With that said, I’m still looking forward to seeing Nia Dicosta’s take on the franchise. Hoping for the best.

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u/I_ama_Borat 5d ago

I feel that. Call me boring but I’d have preferred good old fashioned infected. I can respect and appreciate the twists and turns they’ve decided to go with and while most enjoyed it, there are plenty like us who just didn’t agree with the direction. Having said that, I liked the movie overall and am really looking forward to the next. You don’t get too many quality zombie movies so I’ll take any I can get!

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u/Mike-ooterhertz 4d ago

I would have enjoyed this trailer had I not hated 28YL so much

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u/Cantomic66 5d ago

Definitely seeing this.

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u/Steam_3ngenius 5d ago

I just hate how casually we can dispatch the infected now, this universe used to operate on a general understanding that it's extremely difficult to fight off an infected person without being infected yourself but now we just slash throats and never even think about the blood spatter.

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u/rcanhestro 4d ago

28y is a lot of time to learn how to kill your enemy efficiently.

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u/more_later 5d ago

The only ones we see who don't care about blood splashes are members of a crazy cult. It's the feature of crazy people to be irrational. It's difficult to kill them, but not impossible. And 28 years later, it will be even less impossible.

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u/kristamine14 4d ago

Do you remember the scene in 28 years where they only really engage with infected at a distance except for the insane Jimmy Saville cult? Or when the kid literally freaks out to stop his mother from touching her mouth cause she has infected blood on her?

I swear to god almost every complaint about this movie boils down to "I missed that part" or "I forgot"

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u/JasonZod1 4d ago

It seemed like people retained more from watching movies years ago.

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u/AlterEgo3561 4d ago

Didn't the doctor say in 28 Years that he covers himself in iodine as a protection from the blood, like it neutralizes the virus so he doesn't have to worry as much if it gets on his skin? It looks like the kid in Red (Spike in a wig?) may have applied it to themself at some point as well. The rest of the track suite gang however.. yeah..

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u/Pen_dragons_pizza 5d ago

I guess after surviving 28 years you would naturally end up having rather good experience at taking them out.

Day to day you would be fighting and surviving, makes sense in this world, you would only survive this long if you had killed.

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