Regardless of taking twenty years, this 12 months’s long-awaited horror film sequel 28 Years Later proved to be effectively definitely worth the wait, with subsequent 12 months’s follow-up, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, now having much more to reside as much as. The Bone Temple received’t be helmed by Danny Boyle, however slightly Candyman’s Nia DaCosta, who has now revealed the one change she requested from Alex Garland’s script. And it’s a change that implies The Bone Temple is in good arms.
Set to hit theaters on 16 January 2026, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will decide up with new character Spike (performed by Alfie Williams) and the wildly creepy character launched within the ultimate moments of 28 Years Later, Jack O’Connell’s mysterious cult chief Sir Jimmy Crystal.
Throughout a latest look at an Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Pageant occasion (through THR), DaCosta referred to as engaged on The Bone Temple “the most effective filmmaking experiences I’ve had” whereas evaluating it to the likes of Candyman and The Marvels, each of which she says lacked “a very stable script.” Nevertheless, this was removed from the case with The Bone Temple, with DaCosta making one request of Alex Garland: add extra contaminated.
“However Alex Garland arms you a script, and also you’re like, ‘That is superb.’ You don’t actually have to alter it, though I did, I principally requested for extra contaminated. [Laughs.] That was, like, my large contribution.
I inherited a tremendous solid, then I used to be given the leeway to solid the remainder of the movie. There have been a few places I inherited. I used to be given the leeway to develop all the opposite places. A few of it overlapped, just like the character Samson — Danny and I might collaborate a bit on the look, however on the finish of the day, Danny shoots so completely different from the best way I shoot.”
“’28 Days Later’ Was One in all My Seminal Movies Rising Up”
Following on from 2002’s critically acclaimed 28 Days Later (and, partly, its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later), 28 Years Later ultimately reveals what has occurred to the world for the reason that onslaught of the Rage Virus and the “zombies” that took over. Directed by Danny Boyle, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Garland, 28 Years Later boasts a stellar solid that features Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Edvin Ryding, and follows a father and son who go away their small, remoted island and head into the damaging mainland, the place the boy discovers secrets and techniques, wonders, and horrors which have mutated not solely the contaminated however different survivors as effectively.
28 Years Later was an enormous success for Sony, grossing $150.4 million worldwide towards its finances of $60 million, and receiving largely constructive opinions from critics. Fortunately, Nia DaCosta is effectively conscious of the legacy at stake, with the director declaring her ardour for the franchise and calling 28 Days Later “considered one of my seminal movies rising up.”
“28 Days Later was considered one of my seminal movies rising up… I had the DVD in my home. I watched it on a regular basis. Clearly, fell in love with Cillian Murphy. And Danny Boyle is a bonkers f*cking filmmaker. Nobody else could make a Danny Boyle movie, and that was truly the most important a part of my pitch for the film. I used to be like, ‘Nobody else can try this and I don’t have any intention of doing that. Right here’s how I see the movie, what do you suppose?’”
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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January 16, 2026
- Director
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Nia DaCosta