Jodie Comer looks striking in a metallic silver dress as she leads stars at 28 Years Later premiere

JODIE Comer looked striking in a metallic silver dress, as she led the stars at the 28 Years Later premiere.
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Jodie Comer looked striking in a metallic silver dress, as she led the stars at the 28 Years Later premiere
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The 32-year-old actress oozed glam with her makeup look on point, and her blonde locks in a straight down do
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Jodie Comer, Alfie Williams and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star in the movie
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Aaron and wife Sam put on a glam display
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The new release boasts a star-studded cast, including Jodie,
And the new 28 Years Later
film
follows the classic 2002 movie starring Peaky Blinders actor Cillian.
He's returning as an executive producer - and will even appear as original character Jim "in a surprising way", according to Sony Motion Pictures chairman Tim Rothman.
Arriving for the premiere of the hotly-anticipated new movie, Jodie turned heads in her floor length metallic dress.
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The 32-year-old actress oozed glam with her makeup look on point, and her blonde locks in a straight down do.
She partnered her dress with some metallic heels and a smokey eye, while walking the
red carpet
in
London
, to the backdrop of a wall of skulls.
The beautiful actress posed for photos with Danny Boyle and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes rocked up in a statement blue suit for the World Premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson put on a dapper display, and was seen posing for photos with his wife Sam Taylor-Johnson, who looked striking in a white dress.
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The 14-year-old star of the film, Alfie Williams, also walked the red carpet in a red suit and black top, and joined together with his co-stars for photos.
The star-studded event saw a string of
celebrity
faces in attendance, from TV host
Joel Dommett
to model Tigerlily Taylor.
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Speaking about her new film project, Jodie said: "Having met Danny [Boyle], he's incredibly sure and confident and innovative
"As an actor to be on a set with someone like that who's leading the charge is so exciting.
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"I remember seeing 28 Days Later and I was so struck with how it was so rooted in reality, and it was more about the exploration of us as a species and our behaviour and how we react.
"It felt like there was a lot of emotional truth within the film that really anchored it. That's also what I felt when I read this script."
Meanwhile, Cillian says the 22-year-old movie is the only one of his films he
watches
back.
"I never watch my own films, except that one. I have great affection for it."
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He added: "I can't give much more at this point, but I've always said I would love to be involved because that movie changed everything for me.
"It's always on around Halloween and during the pandemic people were constantly sending me clips.
"And I've shown it to my kids. It's really stood up, even though it's 22 years old now."
28 Years Later is set to be released on June 20, 2025.
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Arriving for the premiere of the hotly-anticipated new movie, Jodie turned heads in her floor length metallic dress
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Ralph Fiennes is one of the stars of the film
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A string of famous TV faces turned up to the movie premiere
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28 Years Later star Alfie Williams, 14, opted for a rose patterned suit
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RTÉ News​

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Glory and gory be! 28 Years Later is

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They have conjured up a fever dream of a film that somehow looks like a cross pollination of Mike Leigh realism, and the sickening surrealism of Straw Dogs and The Wicker Man. We are now on Holy Island off the northeast coast of England, 28 years after the accidental release of a highly contagious virus which caused the breakdown of society and turned infected folk into slavering maniacs with The Rage. Perfidious Albion is now in a state of not so splendid isolation and in quarantine patrolled by European vessels. Garland and Boyle do not hold back on gleeful commentary about the contemporary UK's perilous state, cut-off politically and culturally from the continent and muddling along with a sense of misplaced exceptionalism and proud independence. This post-apocalyptic vision of ye olde merrie future England comes shot through with the look and feel of the fabled lost 1950s Britain beloved of Reform voters and Brexiteers. So political allegory and gore is the order of the day; In the island's village hall a tapestry of a young Queen Elizabeth II in her coronation year takes pride of place and Boyle uses clips from Laurence Olivier's Henry V and wartime newsreel footage of the Blitz to underline the fortress Britain atmosphere. Later, we see the flag of St George in flames. Bow and arrows are the weapon of choice; everyone is dressed in ragamuffin chic and the island looks like it's devolved back to medieval England. Or maybe Féile '90. Wrapped in that grim tableau is a touching family drama concerning 12-year-old Spike (a very impressive Alfie Williams) and his parents, Isla (Jodie Comer - great as usual), who is suffering from a mysterious illness that causes huge trauma and grief for her doting son, and Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a scavenger and survivalist given to flashes of his own type of rage. We first meet Spike on what will be a big day for him. He is about to be taken across the causeway that connects the island to the still contaminated mainland on his first sortie among the infected; a rite of passage that will test his mettle and see him take his place within the village hierarchy. Once across the causeway, the action clicks with an unforgiving ferocity and father and son barely make it home after a gripping moonlit dash back across the causeway as the tide goes out. As we have seen from the first two movies in the series, these zombies are not the shambling husks of B-movie lore but fleet of foot savages who pose a genuine threat. However, Garland and Boyle also introduce two new breeds of zombie - obese, sluggish creatures who forage about on the forest floor and have a nasty talent for creeping up on their prey, and Alphas, muscular pack leaders who take a lot to kill. When Spike hears about the mysterious Dr Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), an eccentric former GP who has remained uninfected and choses to live on the mainland, he sees him as a salvation for his sick mother and so he spirits her back across to the mainland much to the anger of the island's elders and his stricken father. Once we are back off the island, the movie takes on a semi-mystical air with impressionistic riddles and symbols and spiritual ceremony surrounding Dr Kelson. He is clearly the Col Kurtz of the piece, a shamanic witch doctor of sorts, who tends to his very own bone orchard and has his own way of dealing with the infected marauders. The sense of loss is everywhere. There are haunting and very moving glimpses of Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North sculpture rearing starkly from the landscape like the Statue Of Liberty in The Planet of The Apes and a very poignant shot of the now felled tree in the Sycamore Gap at Hadrian's Wall. A brief appearance by Edvin Ryding as a sardonic Swedish NATO soldier, who has been shipwrecked off the coast, adds another dose of dark humour to a movie which is surprisingly funny as well as disturbing. Scottish band Young Fathers provide a pumping but abstract soundtrack for what is a multi-layered, poetic and lyrical movie but with plenty of the comic book gore beloved of fans of the franchise. Arrows fly and slice through zombie flesh and that mad dash across the causeway is exhilarating. Full of strange images and taut action scenes, Boyle has said he wanted a sense of "suffocating intensity" to the film and he really does achieve it The bravado closing sequence, which strangely reminded me of some groovy sixties rock `n' roll flick starring Oliver Reed, includes a crowd-pleasing cameo and sets things up smoothly for the next instalment. If it's as good as this acrid, kerosene-choked thrill ride, we're in for another treat.