“Seven, Six, Eleven, Five”: Watch the Second Trailer for Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’

The marketing folk over at Sony are cheeky monkeys. When I saw the email this morning announcing the new trailer for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, I was greeted by the desiccated face of the man who, in the film’s first trailer, was mistakenly reported to be that of Cillian Murphy. Did Jim from 28 Days Later become infected by the Rage virus?

While the character is actually played by art dealer Angus Neill, as rumors continue to swirl that Murphy will make some kind of cameo in the film and Neill is glimpsed in the new trailer, it would seem that Sony is only too happy to capitalize on our blood-tinged nostalgia for the first film. Otherwise, the trailer largely focuses on star Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s character and his son, played by Alfie Williams, leaving their island refuge on a mission that quickly goes south.

The official description for the film reads, “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected, but other survivors as well.”

The trailer is brilliantly edited, namely for the way that it uses the clarion calls of a woman heard over some kind of loudspeaker as a kind of musical leitmotif throughout. It also doesn’t hurt that it keeps the details of the film, which was written by Boyle and Alex Garland and also stars Jodie Comer, Jack O’Connell, and Ralph Fiennes, close to its chest.

28 Years Later opens on June 20.