After returning to helm 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle stepped away from the director’s chair for the second installment in the new trilogy, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. He left the directing reins in the capable hands of Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021, The Marvels), whose work Boyle praises as “so extraordinarily intense.” Boyle and DaCosta […]
After returning to helm 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle stepped away from the director’s chair for the second installment in the new trilogy, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
He left the directing reins in the capable hands of Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021, The Marvels), whose work Boyle praises as “so extraordinarily intense.”
Boyle and DaCosta discuss the sequel in a pair of new featurettes below. The first highlights the relationship between Dr. Kelson and Sampson, while the second focuses on the threat of the Jimmys.
“I wanted to do a different approach,” says DaCosta. “Something terrifying and very unsettling and weird.”
Written by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Years Later), the fourth installment in the post-apocalyptic horror franchise infects theaters on January 16, 2026 via Sony.
Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry star, with Cillian Murphy expected to reprise his 28 Days Later role.
In the continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship — with consequences that could change the world as they know it — and Spike’s (Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape.
In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
Boyle and Garland produce alongside Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, and Bernard Bellew. Murphy executive produces.
