If this really is Cillian Murphy, he looks fierce

There is one much continues the first trailer for the highly anticipated film by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland 28 years later. First, the newly released clip begins with the Teletubbies’ scariest use since, well, the original Teletubbies. The trailer then kindly does the math for us: “Days turned into weeks (and) weeks turned into years” since the original outbreak of the Rage virus – 10,228 days (or 28 years) to be exact.

Then there’s that eerie poem – a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 “Boots” – which serves as the only dialogue in the back half of the trailer as we watch a small, regressive society face an oncoming horde. This group – which includes characters played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes – have reverted to primitive methods of culture and protection. (Taylor-Johnson has a few good Katniss Everdeen moments with a bow and arrow here.) This tactic probably kept her off the grid for the majority of those 10,228 days, but doesn’t really seem up to the task of wiping her out truly fearsome gang of zombies.

All of which brings us to the one moment that makes all the others seem almost irrelevant. Was that a zombified version of Oscar winner Cillian Murphy right at 1:48? It certainly looks like him – well, what he might look like if you at least removed all the fat, muscle and organs from his body. We know that Murphy, who also starred in the original film, will return in a “surprise way.” per Sony executive. Well, that would certainly be surprising!

Unfortunately, we may have to wait until the film premieres on June 20, 2025 to find out for sure. At least that’s a little shorter than 28 years.