Overview

• Sony released the debut trailer and poster, confirming a theatrical opening on January 16, 2026.
• Official materials outline Spike’s conscription into Sir Jimmy Crystal’s cult and stress that survivors’ brutality now eclipses the infected as the primary threat.
• The footage teases Dr. Ian Kelson’s consequential new bond with the Alpha Samson, positioned as potentially world‑altering within the story.
• Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman and Chi Lewis‑Parry star, with DaCosta directing from Garland’s script and producers including Danny Boyle; Cillian Murphy is an executive producer and appears briefly.
• Billed as the second chapter of a planned trilogy shot back‑to‑back with 28 Years Later, the film advances the mainland storyline, with Boyle indicating Murphy will have a much larger role in the third entry.