Sony has already set a release date for the second film in their newly revamped 28 Days trilogy —28 Years Later: The Bone Temple— which will hit theaters on Jan. 16, 2026.
By the way, Sony just dated on top of New Line’s highly anticipated Zach Cregger directed genre movie Weapons. There was some buzz in the ether that Warners was going to move Weapons to 2025 after it test well, but the studio is very content with the MLK weekend launch and has not plans to move. Don’t know what happens now that Sony has started a game of chicken (bawk! bawk!). Also currently on the MLK weekend 2026 schedule is an untitled Disney film.
So as not provide confusion: the trailer which just dropped was for 28 Years Later and that Danny Boyle directed zombie is coming out on June 20, 2025. The trailer for 28 Years Later was the second most watched horror trailer ever (not including TikTok views) with 60.2M global views after It Chapter Two (96M views, $91M opening). The original 28 Days Later movie from Boyle hit digital purchase and rental yesterday; that pic re-released given the exiting response to the trailer.
The 28 horror franchise were originally released respectively by Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic labels at the former 20th Century Fox, the two films grossing a near combined $150M at the worldwide box office. Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris starred in 28 Days Later, while Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner and Robert Carlye starred in the sequel, 28 Weeks Later.
Sony won the newly revamped franchise 28 Years Later with Boyle reteaming with scribe Alex Garland and star Murphy. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell also star in 28 Years Later.
Nia DaCosta is directing 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
The budget for the new movies are in the range of $75 million.
Boyle, Garland, Andrew Macdonald, Searchlight Pictures vet Peter Rice (who originally shepherded the original movies) and Bernard Bellew are producers with Murphy as EP.
The original 28 Days Later takes place in a world where animal rights activists have freed a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results. Murphy’s bicycle courier wakes up from a coma in a deserted London hospital 28 days later to find that the world has been overrun with zombies.
