28 Years Later: Trailer has fans guessing over Cillian Murphy's fate

It's been rather the wait, but the highly-anticipated follow-up to fearfulness films 28 Days Later (2002) and 28 Weeks Later (2007) is retired adjacent summer, with fans getting their archetypal sensation of what's successful store, from the trailer for 28 Years Later.

Many were speedy to spot what appeared to beryllium a zombie incarnation of Cillian Murphy's motorcycle courier Jim, from 28 Days Later, who survived an apocalypse against precise steep odds.

He seemingly pops up successful the latest trailer down Jodie Comer's quality successful a field, looking overmuch the worse for deterioration - which is hardly astonishing if it is so him.

There had been speculation and anticipation among immoderate fans that the Oppenheimer Oscar-winner would instrumentality to the franchise.

But Murphy's sanction is absent from promotional posters for the latest film, though helium is credited arsenic enforcement shaper connected the Sony Pictures website.

The latest movie stars Killing Eve prima Comer, The Fall Guy's Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Conclave prima Ralph Fiennes - with each 3 seen warring disconnected zombies successful the trailer.

28 Years Later is acceptable astir 3 decades aft the archetypal film, erstwhile a "rage virus" which disastrously infected humans escaped a biologic weapons laboratory.

We conscionable a radical of survivors successful the 3rd film, surviving successful quarantine connected a tiny island, having managed to debar becoming infected.

But erstwhile 1 of them leaves the land connected a ngo to the mainland, helium discovers concealed horrors that person mutated not lone those infected, but survivors arsenic well.

The film's tagline is: "Time didn't heal anything."

The trailer opens with a throwback to fashionable children's TV amusement Teletubbies, which archetypal aired successful 1997, with respective children gathered astir an aged TV arsenic the chirpy taxable tune plays innocuously - yet menacingly - successful the background.

The enactment soon kicks disconnected with respective flashes of combat scenes arsenic an ominous, rhymic signaling of Rudyard Kipling's warfare poem, Boots, is heard successful the background.

A religion has its windows smashed in, earlier the camera descends connected a agrarian land featuring woody crosses dotted crossed the world with rosary beads hanging connected them.

Some graffiti is seen connected what looks similar a workplace dwelling: "Behold helium is coming with the clouds" - a verse from section 1 of the Bible's publication of Revelation, with "Jimmy" scrawled adjacent to it successful achromatic paint.

Could this beryllium a notation to Murphy's quality Jim?

Taylor-Johnson past stalks his mode done greenish fields with a bow and arrow and determination are immoderate gory clips which are (thankfully) hard to marque out.

A heap of skulls is shown successful the mediate of a clearing earlier the zombie figure, which whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium Murphy, makes a little appearance.

Comer is besides seen cradling a baby.

Several radical connected societal media joked astir Murphy's imaginable appearance, with 1 quipping: "Method acting that would adjacent shame Christian Bale," portion others bemoaned the information they felt the fleeting changeable was a spoiler.

The archetypal movie was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, who famously said it was not a zombie film, though it was credited with helping punctual a revival successful the genre.

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

Garland and Boyle person returned for the 3rd film, with some besides producing it arsenic well.

28 Years Later volition beryllium released connected 20 June.