Sony Footage 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 develop 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 advanced 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 dwelling on this franchise.
DaCosta’s course can be highlighted all through the vignette. Whereas her final outing with Marvel Studios’ The Marvels stumbled, her horror chops had been nicely established with Candyman and he or she appears absolutely 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 much from assured. Regardless of sturdy critiques, 28 Years Later solely earned $151.3 million worldwide on a $60 million finances and Boyle has brazenly 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 it’s a must to await 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 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 would 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 the earth of The Bone Temple, the contaminated are not the best menace to survival the inhumanity of the survivors might 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 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 government producer.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hits theaters January 16, 2026.
