28 Years Later

28 Years Later

2025

Twenty-eight years after the rage virus devastated Britain, survivors cling to life on an isolated island while one man ventures onto the treacherous mainland for the first time. What he discovers there challenges everything the survivors thought they knew about the infected world outside.

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Director

  • Danny Boyle

Cast

  • Jodie Comer
  • Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Ralph Fiennes
  • Alfie Williams
  • Jack O'Connell
  • Edvin Ryding
  • Jamie Draven
  • Erin Kellyman
  • Rhys Ifans

Filming Locations

  • Cheddar Gorge

    Dramatic gorge landscape used for certain sequences.

  • Crag Lough

    Additional Northumberland landscape filming.

  • Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

    Steam locomotive scenes.

  • Haghill

    Various city scenes.

  • Holy Island

    The quarantined island where survivors have developed a near-medieval community. Exterior causeway, beach, and island scenes.

  • Jubilee Hall

    Doubled as the interior of the 'Holy Island Mission'; wooden-beamed hall where locals gather.

  • Kielder Forest

    250-square-mile conifer forest used for dense woodland scenes; Spike must perform his first kill here. Conveniently located near Holy Island.

  • Kielder Water Hydroelectric Facility

    A squad of stranded Swedish NATO soldiers are overwhelmed by the infected in the spillway of the largest hydroelectric plant in England.

  • Maryhill

    Various city scenes.

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    Urban scenes.

  • Saint Mary and Saint Finnan Church

    Additional location filming.

  • St Cuthbert's Cave

    National Trust site; the final resting place of Northumbria's 7th-century patron saint features in the film.

  • Sycamore Gap

    The iconic lone sycamore tree (felled illegally in 2023) appears in two scenes, either filmed before the felling or recreated with CGI.