Sony Photos has launched a brand new worldwide vignette for the upcoming sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and it’s loaded with contemporary footage and fascinating story teases that increase the world Danny Boyle and Alex Garland constructed greater than 20 years in the past.
This featurette provides followers their clearest look but at how the Rage Virus has developed and the way the so referred to as Jimmys issue into the terrifying new chapter.
The promo focuses closely on Dr. Kelson’s ongoing experiments with the contaminated and the way these efforts collide with Jimmy Crystal’s story.
We hear from filmmaker Nia DaCosta, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, and Danny Boyle, with Boyle confirming that the continued mutation of the Rage Virus is central to the upcoming movie. The glimpse at Dr. Kelson’s plans provides the sequel an unsettling scientific edge that feels proper at dwelling on this franchise.
DaCosta’s route can be highlighted all through the vignette. Whereas her final outing with Marvel Studios’ The Marvels stumbled, her horror chops have been effectively established with Candyman and he or she seems to be totally locked in right here.
Boyle has already mentioned he intends to return to direct a 3rd movie starring 28 Days Later lead Cillian Murphy, although that future is way from assured. Regardless of sturdy evaluations, 28 Years Later solely earned $151.3 million worldwide on a $60 million finances and Boyle has overtly admitted that the trilogy’s completion will depend on whether or not DaCosta’s sequel succeeds.
Addressing Murphy’s lengthy awaited return to the franchise, Boyle teased, “She will get a little bit of Cillian on the finish. All I can say is you must anticipate Cillian, however hopefully he’ll assist us get the third movie financed.”
He added, “You promise [the studio] Cillian Murphy, that is fairly a deflection of any technical issues, they quickly neglect. Yeah, we nakedly used that to get our personal approach. What higher promise might you make?”
The movie’s official synopsis reads: “In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a surprising new relationship, with penalties that might change the world as they comprehend it.
“Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) turns into a nightmare he cannot escape. On the planet of The Bone Temple, the contaminated are not the best menace to survival the inhumanity of the survivors may be stranger and extra terrifying.”
Between Kelson’s mysterious relationship, Jimmy’s disturbing trajectory, and the evolving Rage Virus, this sequel appears set to push the mythology into darker, extra unpredictable territory. The brand new featurette makes clear that the Jimmys are on the middle of one thing massive and presumably catastrophic.
Directed by DaCosta and written by Alex Garland, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is produced by Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Danny Boyle, and Garland, with Cillian Murphy serving as government producer.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hits theaters January 16, 2026.
