Sony showed off the second trailer for its highly anticipated horror sequel 28 Years Later at CinemaCon today — a tense few minutes that focus largely on Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character, who leaves a pristine island to head to a zombie-infested mainland. “Once you walk onto the mainland, there’s no rescues,” we hear as zombies are […]Sony showed off the second trailer for its highly anticipated horror sequel 28 Years Later at CinemaCon today — a tense few minutes that focus largely on Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character, who leaves a pristine island to head to a zombie-infested mainland. “Once you walk onto the mainland, there’s no rescues,” we hear as zombies are
Sony showed off the second trailer for its highly anticipated horror sequel 28 Years Later at CinemaCon today — a tense few minutes that focus largely on Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character, who leaves a pristine island to head to a zombie-infested mainland.
“Once you walk onto the mainland, there’s no rescues,” we hear as zombies are hunted and attack.
The first trailer had featured Taylor-Johnson’s paternal figure guarding the green fields of England with a bow and arrow, accompanied by the unsettling sound of a Taylor Holmes recording of Rudyard Kipling’s war poem “Boots.” That dropped back in December and is now the third most-watched horror trailer ever with 60.2 million views in its first 24 hours. That prompted Sony to re-release the original 2002 Danny Boyle-directed zombie movie, 28 Days Later on digital Dec. 18 for purchase and rental.
Sony won the revamped Boyle-directed franchise in an auction, reteaming with scribe Alex Garland and starring Cillian Murphy, Jodie Comer, Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell. The budget for the new movies are in the range of $75 million. In addition to Boyle and Garland, producers on 28 Years include Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Garland is penning each installment in the new franchise.
“Mark Twain famously said when he was 14 he couldn’t believe how stupid his father was and by the time he got to 21, he was astounded how much his father had learned in the intervening years. I mention that because [28 Days Later] is quite a long time ago and I appear to have learned nothing … I still love killing zombies and I still love blowing shit up,” said Boyle taking the stage.
“Age is no indication of maturity, I’m just saying,” he quipped.
On the backstory, he said that “Alex and I set out to make three films that are linked together through casting.” He mentioned Taylor-Johnson (“who may or may not be the next Bond”), Comer and Fiennes, adding Murphy though “like all good things in life you may have to wait a while for him to make his appearance.”
Boyle said he doesn’t have finance for the third movie and urged exhibition to “support the continuing apocalypse” so he “might get to come back here with the third film.”
Also appearing was Nia Dacosta who directed 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple who thanked Boyle and Garland for giving her the “freedom to make the film my own” and “let my freak flag fly.”
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