Two new Empire Magazine covers put the spotlight on that headline-grabbing emaciated zombie from the first 28 Years Later trailer, while we also have a new still showcasing Aaron Taylor-Johnson's survivor.

"We wanted him to be involved and he wanted to be involved," producer Andrew Macdonald says of Murphy, who's executive producing the new trilogy.

Cillian Murphy will not be in the 28 Years Later movie but there is room for Jim to return to later in the new trilogy.

After all of the speculation, it's been confirmed that Cillian Murphy has NOT turned into a zombie and won't be in the highly anticipated horror-thriller 28 Years Later. The briefest glimpse of a suspiciously Murphy-esque zombie in the first trailer for the latest episode in the 28 franchise had led fans to speculate that the star of the first movie - 28 Days Later - would be revealed to have met a very bad fate.

Among the myriad of reasons for the palpable excitement surrounding 28 Years Later, directed by Danny Boyle, was the anticipation around Cillian Murphy's return to the franchise. While eagle-eyed fans shared snapshots of the film's trailer,

Despite that viral trailer mix-up, Cillian Murphy is not in 28 Years Later - though he might be involved in the new franchise somewhere down the line. "[On] this, we wanted him to be involved, and he wanted to be involved.