28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is extra “nihilistic and violent” than the primary film, director Nia DaCosta has stated.
The upcoming horror sequel will broaden on the story of the mysterious Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) whereas introducing a brand new risk with Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his Jimmy gang, and DaCosta has now teased the “brutality” that awaits followers in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Talking on Deadline’s Crew Name podcast, the 36-year-old director stated: “[The Bone Temple] will get to broaden on these existential themes.
“When Kelson says ‘Memento mori, memento amore’ – ‘Bear in mind, you have to die. Bear in mind, you have to love’ – he’s actually speaking about methods to handle that means in your life, methods to create that means in a life that feels meaningless, and methods to maintain on to hope in a world that feels misplaced.
“His means of achieving that means is with the connection and believing in one another as people, and Jimmy is the precise reverse.
“It’s type of nihilistic and violent and horrific. And, so, I believe to match the great thing about Kelson, it’s important to have the brutality on the opposite aspect.”
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up after the occasions of 28 Years Later, and follows Spike (Alfie Williams) as he’s inducted into Sir Jimmy Crystal’s (O’Connell) Jimmy gang on the British mainland, solely to find the contaminated should not probably the most terrifying risk in opposition to his actuality.
In the meantime, Dr. Kelson (Fiennes) makes a surprising discovery that would change the world.
The film – which hits cinemas on January 14, 2026 within the UK and January 16 within the U.S. – additionally stars Erin Kellyman as Jimmy Ink, Emma Laird as Jimmima, Maura Chook as Jimmy Jones.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple may even see the return of Cillian Murphy’s 28 Days Later protagonist Jim in what would be the actor’s first on-screen position in creators Alex Garland and Danny Boyle’s horror franchise for the reason that authentic 2002 movie.
Not too long ago, Fiennes mirrored on how the connection his Dr. Kelson has with the contaminated Alpha often called Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) is expanded on in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Throughout an interview with Bloody Disgusting, the 63-year-old actor stated: “I believe his challenge offers him that means, offers life that means for him, and he recognises he may die, however he’s uncommon. He’s one thing of a medieval determine who survives in a type of panorama of plague.
“They’re odd, I believe they’re odd, he’s nearly a type of priest-like as nicely. Yeah. I can solely assume he’s held on to one thing.
“There are folks, I believe, with extraordinary psychological stamina, who will maintain on, and preserve by studying and listening to music, and simply preserve linked to a way of the rational.”
The Harry Potter star added Kelson “hadn’t gone mad” within the British wastelands, and had as a substitute discovered a brand new sense of function within the apocalypse.
Fiennes defined: “I believe he’s written as empathetic, he’s primarily a person who’s, he’s a physician, he cares. He has no agenda.
“He’s bought this job of honouring the useless. I believe he’s a mix, isn’t he, of type of physician and a mortician, and I believe he will need to have uncommon psychological stamina, that throughout the small quantity of possessions he’s retained, books and information, he’s been in a position to preserve some rationale alive.
“He hasn’t gone mad. Some folks would’ve gone violent, or gone mad, or dedicated suicide, he’s bought some sturdy inside.”
