Weekly trailer roundup 12/12

Ash Walker • 12 Dec 2024 Features

The biggest, most exciting new movie and TV trailers this week.

We live in a golden age of entertainment, with great new movies and TV shows being released all the time. There’s so much, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track of what’s coming, and what to get excited about.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of the biggest and best trailers released this week. And while it’s been a bit of a light week, there are still a couple of bangers that should be on your radar, featuring everything from rage zombies to nefarious corporations and cannibalistic teenage girls.

Movies

28 Years Later

Credit: 28 YEARS LATER - Official Trailer (Sony Pictures Entertainment, YouTube)

In cinemas 20th June

The first trailer for the highly-anticipated follow-up is finally here, and it’s about as intense as you’d imagine.

It hasn’t quite been 28 years since the original film, 2002’s bleak, visceral apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later, but it’s scarily close enough. That film saw Cillian Murphy’s bike messenger waking up to a world devastated by a highly contagious virus - scenes given extra weight in recent years - that turns its victims into bloodthirsty, rage-filled monsters.

The sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, chronicled the virus’s spread, and now original director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have returned to imagine how the world might have fared in the decades since. Not too well, by the looks of it.

Amongst the starry cast fighting for survival this time are Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) and Ralph Fiennes (Skyfall).

The Gorge

Credit: The Gorge - Official Trailer (Apple TV, YouTube)

On Apple TV+ 14th February

A high-concept horror thriller from Scott Derrickson, the director of The Black Phone and Doctor Strange. Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) and Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick) play rival operatives tasked with monitoring a mysterious gorge. The secret? This gorge contains a literal gate to hell.

With some fun spy-vs-spy flirtation between the two stars and hints at some hellish beasties emerging from the gorge, this looks like spooky, action-packed fun.

TV Shows

Severance

Credit: Severance - Season 2 Official Trailer (Apple TV, YouTube)

Season 2 on Apple TV+ 17th January

It’s finally time to return to Lumon, and the gang of lovable oddball ‘Innies’ who are eternally trapped within its endless corporate hellscape.

Season 1 ended on a pulse-pounding cliffhanger as the Innies, led by Adam Scott’s Mark, attempted to make contact with the outside world. Season 2 picks up soon after, and promises more of the same high-intensity weirdness and bone-dry comedy.

Joining Scott and returning from the first season are the likes of Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Christopher Walken (Dune: Part 2) and John Turturro (The Batman). Here’s hoping Season 2 will live up to the starry heights of the first.

Reacher

Credit: Reacher Season 3 - Official Teaser (Prime Video, YouTube)

Season 3 on Amazon Prime Video 20th February

Adapting the seventh of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, Persuader, the third season of Prime’s hit action thriller series sees the wandering giant going up against a foe from his past - and, excitingly, a guy who’s somehow even bigger than him.

Will Reacher make it out alive? Probably, given that the series has already been renewed for a fourth season… but that doesn’t mean everyone’s favourite beefcake won’t get put through the wringer along the way. That slap - ouch!

Yellowjackets

Credit: Yellowjackets Season 3 First Look (Yellowjackets, YouTube)

Season 3 on Paramount+ 14th February

Set across two time periods - present day and the mid-90s - the cult horror series follows a group of teenage girls who become stranded in the vast Canadian wilderness, and their adult selves as their traumatic past comes back to haunt them. Sort of like Heathers meets Lord of the Flies.

The first two seasons were full of crazy twists, freaky imagery and shocking violence, and the whole thing was infused with an anarchic punk energy. Judging by this teaser, Season 3 will be no different.

Joining the cast this year is Oscar-winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby), alongside returning regulars like Christina Ricci (Wednesday), Juliette Lewis (From Dusk Til Dawn) and Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings).