In the trailer for '28 Years Later,' there's one thing you probably won't notice

CINEMA – Days have become weeks, and now years. Two decades after his horror film 28 days later with Cillian Murphy, released in 2003, British director Danny Boyle is back with 28 years later. The first trailer, which you can find at the top of this articlewas released this Tuesday, December 10. This is the third part of the saga, which follows at 28 weeks laterwhich was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo in 2007.

But this new film has a particularity: it was shot on a smartphone. Danny Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle chose to film 28 years later with an iPhone 15. The director of Trainspotting et Slumdog Millionaire had already innovated for the first part, by filming with Canon XL-1 on MiniDV cassettes, rather than a professional 35 mm camera.

But if 28 days later deliberately used an image of poor quality – and which has aged very badly – the use of the Apple smartphone in 28 years later is almost impossible to detect for the untrained eye.

Danny Boyle and Anthony Dod Mantle obviously didn't film while holding phones in their hands like tourists on vacation. According to paparazzi photos of the shoot, a camera lens was attached to the iPhone lens, and the whole thing was attached to a professional tripod.

Cillian Murphy returns

Apart from this technical detail, the trailer tells us more about the rest of the postapocalyptic saga. For 28 years now, Britain has been living with the “ rabies virus », a terrible epidemic that transforms infected people into rabid humans. A few groups of people have managed to escape the virus and are living in communities.

Soldiers seem to have the mission of killing infected people, at the risk of their lives. “Don’t look in front of you. Keep moving. There is no demobilization possible in war”repeats a distressing voice in the trailer. The film follows a young boy who is desperate to find a doctor for his dying mother.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the lead role and accompanies the child (perhaps his own) through the ravaged country, armed with a bow and arrows. Jodie Comer appears to be the mother, in poor health after giving birth. Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell complete this five-star cast. And Edvin Ryding, the Swedish actor discovered in the series Young Royalsplays a soldier.

As had been announced, Cillian Murphy reprises his role of Jim who made him known in 28 days later. If in the first film, he woke up from a coma and discovered the apocalypse, his role in the sequel remains a mystery for the moment. We don't see the Irish actor in the trailer, except at the very end where he seems to appear as a zombie. We will have to wait until June 18 to find out what happened to him.

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