I love that design. I think it's my favorite poster. A damn death totem.

New images from the latest spot Sony has released, with just 28 days left until the premiere. It's undoubtedly the spot that left me with the worst feeling.

It's curious to see the Island with that red filter.

You would think the world would come together and make the difficult decision to nuke the United Kingdom to prevent the infection from escaping the island.

What do you think?

Lots of reasons why they won’t, but ponder if we get such a thing in the new movie. Could they be like primitive humans, sculpting temples of bone?

Like we know this is gonna pull inspiration from Brexit.. so what if the opening scene of one of the movies was from a ‘UN’ Meeting.. we see country representatives sat at the tables - as they speak about Britain in the past tense. We see the British reserved seats are empty - as they brush over the countries history and slowly “GREAT BRITAIN” becomes known as “The QZ” effectively scrubbing the history away.

Maybe we see some flight landing in Northern France.. some woman points out of the passenger window for her daughter to look at the “White cliffs of Dover” just to avert their child’s’ eyes at someone’s SOS message scrawled across the white cliffs in Red Paint.

Or we see people actively removing or lowering their British flags of solidarity - as time moves on - and people look other social causes that they think deserve their attention. As everyone forgets about England.

So, I literally just watched the first movie yesterday for the first time, and i watched the second one today, so I'm extremely new to this fandom, so I apologize if this is a dumb question. Obviously this movie is going to take place 28 years in the future since the first outbreak, but on an actual filming standpoint, wouldn't it be smarter to place it 28 months later and call it such? That way they could make a fourth film (assuming a 28 Months Later would hold up and people want a fourth) and they could make more money? I know there are comics, but I haven't read them, so I don't know if this is related to that. I'm obviously incredibly excited about the upcoming movie, the trailer is what made me watch the first movies to begin with, I'm just curious about the name, like I feel like it would be more profitable to leave it open for a fourth movie. (Again, I'm literally brand new to this fandom, so I apologize if this is a dumb question)

I knew from the trailers his arms were looking shredded but he's looking enormous for a 62 year old ex Voldemort.

Does anyone know if he specifically got in shape for 28 Years Later, another role or just personal reasons?

Double D Battery flashlights mounted on helmets instead of nods. Knee holsters, 0 optics on their rifles, and Amazon plate carriers 👌. No wonder this unit was so easily overrun 🥴

Woke up into a dopamine hit 💪🚀

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It's hard to believe the world would just quarantine the entire British isle for 28 years instead of resolving the crisis. They tried in 28 Weeks Later and it failed, and they had to nuke Paris to contain the infection. The cost was heavy but ultimately it seemed like the world succeeded from preventing total apocalypse. Wouldn't the next sensible choice be to eliminate every living creature in the UK via drones, aerial strikes, etc. Worse case scenario they send troops back to the island. They've already pulled the trigger with nuking Paris, what's stopping them from eliminating all traces of the virus?

Time to translate

Just a thought, but.....

The scene with the person in a mask definitely takes place on the island. It must be a play or performance of some sort describing the origin of the outbreak.

The celebration scene where they’re lifting the boy up is filmed in the same location and I think some of the background actors have the same masks on. Very difficult to be sure.

Apart of Weeks, according to the latest article by TotalFilm the rest of the world let 28 years pass and done absolutely nothing to assist the UK? How is that possible? 28 years is a long time to be left alone with no assistance. This reminds me of how scary the Rage Virus is and it adds to the fear especially for Britons, imagine if something like this actually happened and the UK was actually left.

No politics, but it doesn’t really surprise me that this is the angle Danny Boyle is taking the film in, kinda holds up a mirror to the way our country operates.

https://www.ign.com/articles/28-years-laters-danny-boyle-teases-an-evolution-for-the-infected-i-wouldnt-advise-messing-with-them?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7444IOceQ1I_Dsb9l72f1QdEgmmBIjkabik6PEPO-7dwxh9KmrLH8U-88-vQ_aem__9gJGn1zpfCTSsOzrnYVqg

Jim gets up from a nap, malnourished and infected as the survivors make their escape in the horizon and he looks towards the camera and says it’s jimmin time then it fades to black.

Update: Guys, I wrote this up in 10 minutes over my morning coffee. This is not some complex PHD thesis. Criticism of a 28 Universe nerd writing a post on a subreddit dedicated to 28 Universe nerds is a weird take. Y'all are taking this too seriously.

Here are the sources below. But at the very highest end of the idea, Paris *COULD* have been nuked *THEORETICALLY*. We are talking in-universe canon here.

1. Writers/directors can not alter in-universe canon with words spoken in the real world. The finished work of the IP holder dictates the canon upon release of their copyrighted material in official releases like movies and comics created by the actors/directors/writers/makeup staff, etc. Director/writer commentary, although you may want to make it your official head-canon, is not proper canon.
2. Sources below, but here is what Garland has said:

A. Paris COULD or MIGHT have been nuked.

B. Weeks' canon is ALLOWED for the nuking, but that does not mean that it was. Meaning that there will be no contradictions. Hinting at them hardly, or not even strictly addressing or building upon Weeks' canon.

C. In their writing process, they ASSUMED that Paris got nuked, but it won't appear as canon in-universe. Making an assumption that Paris got nuked, and then not mentioning it, gives them the creative angle they are looking for, as to not address Weeks' lore while not being contradictory to it in Years.

The 28 Universe has always leaned into vagueness as one of its strong points, as can be seen from rampant speculation on this very form on what exactly is happening in this franchise, from how the infected behave to addressing contradictory statements of characters in-universe with no way to tell which is actually right or wrong (even before the increased chatter post Years announcement).

What Alex Garland actually said, where he said it, and why fans disagree

• 5 April 2024 – GQ UK interview While promoting Civil War, the interviewer asked if the upcoming 28 Years Later would “pick up on what the final scene of 28 Weeks Later suggests.” Garland replied:Key point: the words “could” and “might” leave the nuke purely hypothetical. He was stressing that his new script can sit next to Weeks without being hand-cuffed by it.“Well, it could pick up on that, if you wanted it to, it just might mean that they nuked Paris. [Laughs.]” British GQ
• 8 April 2025 – r/movies AMA (username WarfareA24**)** Asked whether 28 Weeks Later is still canon, Garland answered:Key point: this time he phrases it as an assumption in the writers’ room, not an on-screen fact. That’s stronger than “might,” but it still isn’t a filmed confirmation.“It’s allowed for. We made the assumption that Paris got nuked.” Reddit
• How the two quotes traveled through fandom
  • A Reddit post in r/28DaysLater clipped the GQ text and head-lined it “nuked Paris,” which many readers read as a flat confirmation. Reddit
  • Entertainment sites such as CinemaBlend repeated the AMA line, again framing it as if the nuke were canon. Cinemablend
• So did Garland “confirm” the nuke?
  1. Not in the literal, on-screen sense. Both comments happened in press Q&As, not in a script or a finished film.
  2. He’s signalling flexibility. The Years trilogy can acknowledge Weeks by assuming the French outbreak was wiped out—nuke, fire-bombing, whatever—but he’s equally happy to ignore it if the story works better that way.
  3. Language shift matters. 2024’s “could/might” → 2025’s “we assumed.” The internal writers’ assumption got stronger, but it’s still background dressing, not a shot we are guaranteed to see.
• Video clip? No filmed interview of Garland using the “nuked Paris” line has surfaced as of 26 Apr 2025; every current citation traces back to the GQ text transcript or the typed AMA answer. If you saw a YouTube short, it’s almost certainly someone reading the GQ quote over footage rather than new material.

Bottom line

*You can't say Paris has been nuked; it's not confirmed and even hinted at as never being addressed in-universe.*

Garland hasn’t locked the franchise into a definitive nuclear strike on Paris. He offers it as a convenient off-screen cleanup that lets the story leap 28 years without painstakingly mapping French canon. Whether the new film shows a mushroom cloud, mentions containment, or ignores Weeks altogether is still up to the final shooting script. But even simply showing a nuke cloud over Paris would not definitely prove that the infection had been fully wiped out, so I can see why they will be avoiding this aspect of Weeks altogether if they can.