Overview

• ’28 Years Later’ follows Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), Isla (Jodie Comer) and their son Spike as they leave a quarantined island to confront the rage virus on the mainland.
• Danny Boyle shot major sequences across Northumberland’s Holy Island and the Lake District using an experimental blend of iPhone 15 Pro Max and traditional cameras.
• Backed by a reported £75 million budget, the film recorded the strongest horror presale of the year and is projected to open to $30–40 million in North America.
• Boyle confirms that 28 Weeks Later remains part of the official continuity and that the new film contracts the virus’s threat within Britain as a political and pandemic-era metaphor.
• Sony and BBC timed the return of the original 2002 film on BBC iPlayer ahead of this weekend’s release, with the next chapter, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, due January 16, 2026.