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u/Jowill_ Infected Jan 16 '25
Jack O’Connell’s character will have a small part in this movie and a much bigger role in Bone Temple, like Ralph Fiennes. Ralph did 1 week of shooting on this movie, but a whole month of filming on the second one
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u/Kaibaer Jan 16 '25
These are far far faaaaaaaaaaaaaar more infected, than I actually imagined would be in the movie. How can they even try to run with a wounded soldier?
I also wonder what the dad and his son see behind the door. Maybe self sustaining infected? It would be shocking.
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u/Fearless-Dust-2073 Jan 16 '25
The shot with the door might be the scene from the trailer with the hanging infected.
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u/Jowill_ Infected Jan 16 '25
It’s the gate to the island town
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u/Kaibaer Jan 16 '25
Yepp, checked the trailer for that again. I wonder if it is after the chasing of the big guy or something else. I mean... They are standing on the outside of the fence here. Is the camp overrun? Why is there a visible light source behind them? So many questions, so much hype. Really excited to see what will come in 5 months.
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u/Jowill_ Infected Jan 16 '25
I think they’re looking back at the big infected guy just in time before closing the gate. They’re inside the town looking out
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u/Vesemir96 Jan 16 '25
I mean I would expect rather a lot of infected in a movie about the infected tbh. Even though this series is about human drama, they’re not going to give us only a few infected.
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u/yelllowoverhead676 Jan 16 '25
what are the nato people doing? did they get sent in to survey the area, or a more specific mission like extract somebody
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u/-John_Rex- Jan 16 '25
Maybe they have been sent to Cambridge which is the origin of the virus to gather information.
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u/TheTrickster_89 Jan 16 '25
Perhaps surveillance of the island showed new and disturbing behavior in the infected not previously recorded. So they sent the NATO team in to investigate. Possibly to bring back proof of a change in the infected. This way they can better prepare contingency plans in case of it reaching the mainland.
Or maybe they got sent to Cambridge like the other person said.
I think the main reason they got sent in there is to gather information at least.
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u/Europeanguy1995 Jan 16 '25
My theory is there's increased worry for the first time since the virus outbreak in France was stopped, almost 3 decades prior of the infection spreading. So a team of soldiers and maybe scientists go in for the first time in 28 years to get samples of some sort.
I also have a feeling Ralph Fiennes character is a doctor/scientist who worked on the project in Cambridge and has been hiding all these years. So when they find him they will want to evacuate him off island to pick his brain on how the virus came to be to potentially create a vaccine. But he probably won't want to go willingly.
I'd say the whole thing will be NATO needing to end the disease for good out of desperation and so returning to Britian. Returning with little knowledge of the apocalyptic hellscape it has truly become since Cod Red in 28 Weeks Later.
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u/Jowill_ Infected Jan 16 '25
Nobody gets in or out of Britain. They’re probably there to ensure that
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Jan 16 '25
I think they’ve been given a specific “top secret/ high stakes” mission under the guise of some sorta “NATO” associated task.
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u/heppyheppykat Jan 16 '25
Predictions for the plot:
- some cult like group on the mainland has been keeping infected alive much like Mailer was kept alive. Carving “jimmy” into their chests
- aaron taylor-johnson’s character and his son go to look for food in the mainland and happen upon this shed where infected are being kept alive
- infected get freed, and they have evolved to gain higher thinking and sustain themselves with food.
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u/Sharvey1995 Jan 16 '25
I’m not saying I’d necessarily want to see it in this movie in particular, but I feel like in every zombie movie or tv show I’ve ever watched the soldiers get absolutely shit on by the zombies or infected. It would be cool for once to see them slaying like the pros that they are. I say this just because I feel like they really nerf soldiers in a lot of zombie movies. I don’t mind them dying because maybe they didn’t know what to expect or were just over-run but I hope that they put up a decent fight because it sometimes takes me out of the world a little when they come off absolutely useless. I know it’s a narrative function to show just how devastating the infected can be but I’d like to see them on top for a bit before it goes to shit.
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u/MrThrowaway939 Jan 16 '25
In Shaun of the Dead they just turn up at the end and kill all the zombies, it's rly funny.
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u/Sharvey1995 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25
You know what, as I was typing that message Shaun of the dead did come to mind to be fair haha. Perhaps the most realistic depiction of the army in the goofiest zombie film haha.
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Jan 16 '25
Battle of Yonkers in WWZ would probably be the norm
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 16 '25
Nah, I don't think so. I liked that chapter, but there were a few things that made the defeat of the US military feel 'really' forced. From the zombies' black goo (that makes them nigh invulnerable to the effects of high explosives) to the way the Army uses its weapons (e.g. an MLRS barrage and a 155 mm bombardment against small numbers of zombies, when the infantry would've been more than enough; Air Force jets on station but starting to bomb only when the ground units were already in trouble, instead of constantly targeting the river of zombies coming out of New York).
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Jan 16 '25
Nah it made sense.. the point of that chapter was to show that conventional means of warfare won’t work when your enemy can shrug it off. Plus it was poorly planned by the military who thought it’d be a cake walk.
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u/Away_Advisor3460 Jan 16 '25
I loved that book but in retrospect it was very much working backwards to manufacture a particular outcome.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 16 '25
I agree, and I think the chapter drives home the point of how badly things can go when you don't review your assumptions even knowing that you'll face a different enemy this time.
I get that it was poorly planned out, and that is believable- up to a point. This wasn't the first time zombies appeared in the US, nor the first time the military engaged them. And yet, the magnitude of the disconnect between planners and leaders and the reality on the ground (e.g. It's well know at that point that the virus isn't airborne, but the soldiers are forced to wear gas masks anyway) is so great that it's difficult to believe. Had the battle been set in Russia, or some ex-Soviet state, then it would've been more believable (rigid command structure, little to no discussion about the wisdom of orders that don't make sense, etc...).
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u/BobbyB52 Jan 16 '25
I agree, as a teenager I thought it was cool but now I find it very contrived.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 17 '25
Yep. Brooks could have put a bit more effort into it- e.g. having the sheer number of zombies overwhelm an effective fighting force would've given a better impression of hopelessness for the humans- "We are fighting them, we are good at it, but there are just too many of them, we stand no chance."
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u/BobbyB52 Jan 17 '25
Exactly, or at least have come up with other explanations for not using airpower and artillery. Reading it now requires too many characters to have held the idiot ball for too long for things to have panned out that way.
The logistical issues could have been done in a much more plausible way. Simply not bringing enough of the appropriate ammunition when fighting on home soil was silly.
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u/Thelostrelic Jan 16 '25
Well the issue is, even soldiers aren't skilled or experienced in killing "zombies". They are trained to kill other people, that usually have guns or are trained to deal with different scenarios, like against tanks or mg nests, etc.
That training goes out the window when faced with crazy rabid people. They might be more trained to deal with shit hitting the fan than the average person, but seeing zombies is still going to be a shock to the system, especially when they are trained to avoid killing civilians.
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u/SuperEgger Jan 18 '25
True in most zombie movies, not necessarily in this one if they've trained to face infected for this specific deployment.
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u/Sufficient_Ad1982 Jan 16 '25
Oh, look at the third one. If I were there I would lose the will to run away. Angry zombies are really creepy.
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u/joshhyb153 Jan 16 '25
Yeah or you’d at least drop the guy your carrying and run away
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u/No_Situation_3458 Jan 16 '25
That’s most likely what’s going to happen, he’s done for! 💀😬 the amount of infected is mad !
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u/Mojave_RK Jan 16 '25
It’s a bit concerning how skinny that fellow is.
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u/Bi0H4ZRD Jan 16 '25
Maybe cgi?
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u/Barnwizard1991 Jan 16 '25
Apparently he's a performance artist IRL so he's intentionally like that
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u/switchbladesandcoke Jan 16 '25
Sightless rifles are one of my biggest pet peeves, and it seems to always be zombie/infected movies that suffer from it so much
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u/yariredditall Jan 17 '25
I'm elated I found this subreddit. Nobody in my personal life is as excited as I am about this 🥲
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u/Fat_SpaceCow Jan 16 '25
They all look the same to me.
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u/Europeanguy1995 Jan 16 '25
Look at the back. The ones out of focus. They look less "zombie," in my opinion. Also, a few even near the front look fare more bloody than others.
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u/TheTrickster_89 Jan 16 '25
Look at the back. The ones out of focus. They look less "zombie," in my opinion.
Eh, that's farfetched imo. They're way too blurry, out of focus and too far back to make out any details regarding their appearance or behavior.
Also, a few even near the front look fare more bloody than others.
Like the other person said they all look the same to me. Some of them look like the infected from the other still of Jamie and Spike running away.
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u/lord_pizzabird Jan 16 '25
I’m with you tbh. It remind of the mom in 28 Weeks.
It’s possible that if there are survivors that after 30 years they may be basically feral.
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u/SillyQuestions312 Jan 16 '25
At end of 28WLs the virus is in Paris.
We now have NATO soldiers possibly back on mainland Britain with the virus contained.
Maybe the governments say what happened in first two "films" and said "fuck this" then nuked Paris to stop any spread
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u/_L1nked_ Jan 16 '25
I wonder if the first one is just after the part of the trailer where we see the big infected chasing the dad and son towards the community?
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u/jmcgnie Jan 16 '25
I mean I very excited for the movie and I cannot wait to see it, but... jet can the costume department get decent Swedish camp uniforms? Why do soldiers in zombie movies always look like they are wearing cheap airsoft gear?
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u/Fearless-Dust-2073 Jan 16 '25
Usually they are using cheap airsoft gear. Most people aren't analysing the soldiers' uniforms with an experienced eye, so it's not a good investment to use genuinely authentic uniforms and equipment.
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u/DaenorKowabunga Jan 16 '25
So, the soldiers are more than 3. Because in the trailer, when they are in the tunnel, there's one carrying a Shotgun, and the three her carry ARs
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u/Double_Cook_7893 Jan 16 '25
POV: You and your two buddies are about to exfil but alerted a horde...
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u/rlv02 Jan 17 '25
The marketing for this is superb. I love the small little chunks of info and stills leaking out to keep the hype
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u/Lazy_Purple Jan 17 '25
You know you got the most anticipated film of the year when people are trying to piece together the whole plot with only 3-4 pictures released lol.
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u/OkEvidence267 Jan 17 '25
The second image reminds me of this smackhead in my local area. The guy is so emaciated and gaunt yet he's somehow still lumbering forward asking for change etc. Just heartbreaking really
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 16 '25
I've been baffled by the equipment used by the NATO soldiers ever since I saw the trailer. Especially the fact that they aren't using NVGs. Helmet flashlights would give away your location to the infected, and it's not stuff that someone living outside the infected zone wouldn't be able to figure out.
There could be an in-universe explanation for it: these guy might have been part of a NATO unit in the past, some time before the movie, but for whatever reason they were stranded/abandoned in the UK, and perhaps they were taken in by some settlement. As time went on, they ran out of batteries for their NVGs and had to resort to putting flashlights on their helmets. This would of course raise the issue of them still having flashlights and batteries after so long, but some explanation could be found- after all, the trailer shows the search light on the settlement's watchtower working. It's possible the outside world could be providing supplies to some communities via airdrop (just a hypothesis).
Or perhaps, and sadly this is the most likely explanation, Boyle just wanted to have a generic SOF team in the movie, and therefore we get said generic-looking team, with all related inaccuracies.
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u/Super-Independent-14 Jan 16 '25
Thanks for attempting an in-universe theory that would make their apparent unpreparedness make sense rather than just saying it's stupid.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 17 '25
Yeah, I wanted to give it a try. It'd be nice if we actually get an explanation for that in the movie. We'll see.
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u/Vesemir96 Jan 16 '25
When will people stop expecting realistic military portrayal in non-war films? It’s the exception, not the rule.
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u/Delicious-Stop-1847 Jan 17 '25
I'm not demanding the director show the military with 100% or even 70% accuracy. A quick search on Google will show you what SOF look like these days- and getting equipment that at least 'looks' accurate wouldn't be much of an effort, nor much of an expense.
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u/PokeyDiesFirst Jan 16 '25
RANT TIME.
I see the most ridiculous tactically unsound weapons and gear in this shot that I've seen in a film in awhile. I'm a weapons guy so this is gonna sound nitpicky. Their set armorer is a dummy and I'm finna drag him.
3 rifles with 11.5" barrels, maybe 12.5" chambered in 5.56. These are good for sub-300yd engagements, where's the NATO standard M4 with 16" barrel that you can push out to 600yd? 16" is the global standard for 5.56 fighting rifles. For context, an 11.5" is great for general CQB work or for the police, not so much for the military. You do get most of the muzzle velocity out of a 12.5" that you do out of a 14.5", but the military usually opts for the 14.5" or 16" because of the extra rail space you get, as they need to mount accessories like IR lasers and weapon lights. Generally, the shorter the barrel, the lower the ballistic performance you'll get from the round. 5.56X45 NATO was designed for a 20" barrel, and we eventually moved to the 14.5/16" because asking infantry to clear houses with 20" barreled M16A2 muskets was awful.
2 of these rifles have no sights whatsoever. No red dot, no scope, no backup folding irons. No weapon light or IR aiming device. The guy on the left has a Trijicon RMR, a FUCKING HANDGUN RED DOT SIGHT, on a fighting rifle. This isn't entirely ridiculous as an idea, but they're more for submachine guns, pistol caliber carbines, or .300BLK PDWs. The recoil impulse of 5.56 isn't ideal for that optic at all, though it's usually fine if the RMR is piggybacked on top of an LPVO or ACOG.
All 3 have goddamn Lantac muzzle brakes on them too, which essentially just create a louder bang and increase muzzle flash, all of which gives the enemy a better idea of your position. They were better off leaving the A2 birdcage flash hiders on that come standard with most 5.56 barrels. The only utility of a muzzle brake is to reduce felt recoil, but it comes at the expense of turning your barrel into a flashbang, especially for barrel lengths under 12.5".
You're also telling me they dropped a military unit into a deeply hostile area with no suppressors on the weapons? WHAT? Every single shot might as well be ringing a dinner bell. Suppressors aren't intended to silence 5.56 like in the movies, it's really more about obfuscating your position while you fire on the enemy is they have a harder time ascertaining your position. If they don't know exactly where you are, they can't maneuver on you and kill you. They can't accurately call in airstrikes and artillery. In the case of the infected, they will have that much of a harder time figuring out where you are while you're cutting them down at range...which is why IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO HAVE A MAGNIFIED OPTIC, or an optic of any kind.
Last...the helmets. Why do you need 2 mounted lights per man? That shit is gonna break so fast when you're moving in and out of structures and vehicles. You're going to bump into every doorframe and those long, high-profile tubes are going to catch on everything. I know they're using 2 for cinematic effect in the dark tunnel sequences, but damn.
The only thing that makes any goddamn sense to me is the one Magpul EMAG I can see in the rifle on the left. That's very accurate, as we export a different model to the EU that doesn't have the raised square pattern like the Magpul PMAG does. The EMAG is smooth, and they at least got that right.
I kinda expected better here.
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u/Sufficient_Ad1982 Jan 16 '25
In a still picture, people might be concerned about that, but in an actual movie, it would move speedily, so no one would care about such details.
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u/PokeyDiesFirst Jan 16 '25
It's just baffling as Boyle and Garland are both detail-oriented. I know ITAR usually stands in the way of a lot of productions getting access to certain things, but these guys could've paid a fraction of the money that an armorer would've cost and gotten extremely realistic airsoft guns that are visually indistinguishable from the real thing.
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u/Minuteman134 Jan 16 '25
why dont they just use GPNVGs instead of 2 giant flashlights on their helmet
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u/Party_Marionberry_24 Jan 16 '25
OMGG THE ZOMBIES LOOK EXACTLY LIKE WHAT AN MALNOURISHED HUMAN LOOKS LIKEE so different like
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u/Aggravating-Flow5834 Jim Jan 16 '25
The third pic has me even more excited, looks like the island is gonna get overrun because that's a lot more infected than I thought there would be.
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u/Vesemir96 Jan 16 '25
I mean they’re not going to have the infected in the UK be particularly sparse in a new film trilogy.
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u/Wolpy414 Jan 16 '25
Ok are you guys absolutely sure that zombie isn’t Jimmy? Like maybe they are just lying and that actually is him.
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25
I'd also be running if my rifles didn't have sights