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 attention-grabbing story teases that broaden the world Danny Boyle and Alex Garland constructed greater than twenty years in the past.
This featurette offers followers their clearest look but at how the Rage Virus has developed and the way the so known 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 offers the sequel an unsettling scientific edge that feels proper at house 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 properly established with Candyman and he or she seems to be absolutely locked in right here.
Boyle has already stated he intends to return to direct a 3rd movie starring 28 Days Later lead Cillian Murphy, although that future is much 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 depends upon 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 it’s important to 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 considerations, they quickly overlook. Yeah, we nakedly used that to get our personal manner. What higher promise may you make?”
The movie’s official synopsis reads: “In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a stunning new relationship, with penalties that might change the world as they understand it.
“Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) turns into a nightmare he cannot escape. On this planet of The Bone Temple, the contaminated are not the best menace to survival the inhumanity of the survivors will 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 heart of one thing large and probably 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 govt producer.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hits theaters January 16, 2026.
