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Business Insider
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
A sequel to '28 Years Later' has already been filmed. Here's what to know about 'The Bone Temple'
Horror fans rejoice, the sequel to the long-awaited " 28 Years Later," "The Bone Temple," has already been filmed and is due out in theaters next year. 2002's " 28 Days Later" became a cult classic by taking a fresh bite out of the zombie movie genre: instead of a supernatural threat, the undead are infected by the Rage Virus. "28 Years Later," out Friday, is the start of a new trilogy from the director and screenwriter of the original film, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland. It tells the story of 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) who leaves the safety of the island where his family live to find a cure for his sick mother, Isla (Jodie Comer), on the UK mainland. By the end of the film, Isla lets the mysterious Doctor Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) euthanize her after he diagnoses her with metastatic brain cancer. Spike then roams the mainland instead of returning home, and in its final scene crosses paths with a man who calls himself Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O'Connell). The strange cult leader who has long blond hair are, as Boyle and Garland confirmed to Business Insider, dressed like Jimmy Savile, the infamous British TV presenter and prolific sexual abuser. The film ends as Spike chooses to go with Jimmy. Here's what to know about "The Bone Temple." The cast of '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' includes Cillian Murphy, Alfie Williams, Jack O'Connell, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson The plot for "The Bone Temple" is unknown, but presumably it will explore Jimmy's past after he escaped the Rage Virus following the initial outbreak, as seen in the violent opening scene of "28 Years Later." His Savile-esque appearance raises an intriguing question: The Rage Virus outbreak started in 2002, meaning Savile's numerous sexual crimes may not have been made public in the film's timeline. In real life, the allegations were made in 2011 onwards, after Savile died. Garland told BI that the story will examine how misremembering key events can drastically change the world."We are living in a time right now which is absolutely dominated by a misremembered past," he said. Williams and O'Connell will return for "The Bone Temple" alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who plays Spike's father, Jamie. Boyle also confirmed to BI that Cillian Murphy will return as Jim, the main character from "28 Days Later." '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' is due in 2026 "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" will be released on January 16, 2026, so there isn't long to wait after that surprising ending. This is because "28 Years Later" and "The Bone Temple" were filmed back-to-back in summer 2024. Boyle didn't direct the second film, but he did return as a producer. Nia Da Costa directed the sequel with a script from Garland. Da Costa has previously helmed movies like "Candyman" and "The Marvels," as well as episodes of "Top Boy" and "Ms. Marvel."
Perth Now
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Danny Boyle had a 'nightmare' filming naked zombies for 28 Years Later
Danny Boyle has admitted it was a "nightmare" filming naked zombies for new horror movie 28 Years Later. The moviemaker has stepped back into the director's chair to helm the new horror - written by Alex Garland - 23 years after the pair's first film 28 Days Later hit cinemas and Danny has revealed they needed to take extra care not to have "naked" actors on the set because they had strict rules in place to protect the film's child star Alfie Williams. Speaking to PEOPLE, Danny explained: "I mean, if you're recently infected [with the zombie virus], you'd have some clothes, but if you've been infected for a long time, the clothes would just disintegrate with the way that you behave. "We never knew that [about rules governing nudity on set when there's a child present] going in, it was a nightmare." Danny went on to explain the work-around they came up with, adding: "Interestingly, because there was a 12-year-old boy on set, you're not allowed for anybody to be naked, not really naked, so they look naked, but it's all prosthetics ... "So it's like: 'Oh my God,' so we had to make everybody prosthetic genitals'." Danny revealed he was keen to push boundaries with the elements of nudity and gore in the film and he's glad studio bosses were supportive of his plans. He told Variety: "I think one of the wonderful things about horror is that you're expected to maximize the impact of your story. Everybody wants to do that with a drama, with the romance, whatever. "But with horror, it's obviously gonna be brutal, some of it. What we loved was setting it against an innocence that's represented by the various children in it, and also the landscape, the beauty of the landscape, the nature. "Having those two forces stretches your story as far as you can go, if you maximize them. That was our principle and the studio was supportive of that, of course they were." 28 Years Later is out this month and a fourth film in the series 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - directed by Nia DaCosta with Danny as a producer - has already been shot ahead of a planned January 2026 launch date. However, the 'Trainspotting' moviemaker hopes to be back in the directing chair if the final movie is given the green light. The series was created by Alex Garland - who wrote the screenplays for all the films except for second instalment 28 Weeks Later - and started with Cillian Murphy's character Jim, who awakes from a coma to discover Britain has been plagued by a terrible pandemic known as the Rage Virus, which turns those affected turn into murderous zombies. Cillian makes a brief appearance in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and is due to be given a bigger role in the untitled follow-up, but Alex Garland has revealed there's still no script for the next month. He told Variety: "The script isn't written. It's strange: There's a story, there's a plan, there's a structure ... So short answer: I've got the idea, I've got the plan, but there's not a script. I'm waiting to see what happens, I suppose."
Business Insider
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
The ending of '28 Years Later' explained and how it sets up the sequel, 'The Bone Temple'
Fans waited nearly 20 years for " 28 Years Later" — and its cliffhanger ending will likely leave them with more questions than answers. The film is set three decades on from when the Rage Virus escaped from a lab in Britain, causing the infected to become mindless and bloodthirsty zombie-like killers. It is essentially a coming of age story about a 12-year-old named Spike, who lives on an island that is cut off from the mainland during high tide, which protects his community from the infected. The opening scene of "28 Years Later" shows the infected attacking a young boy named Jimmy at the start of the outbreak. It then jumps forward to Spike's father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), taking him hunting on the mainland as a rite of passage. They leave behind Spike's mother, Isla (Jodie Comer), who is bed-bound by a mystery illness that causes amnesia. Here's the ending explained, and how it sets up the sequel "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple." "28 Years Later" follows Spike as he tries to save his mother. After Spike spots a fire in the distance while on the mainland, Jamie tells him of a man called Doctor Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), whom he saw nonchalantly burning hundreds of bodies when he was younger. He warns Spike of how dangerous even the uninfected can be. However, Spike ignores him and decides to sneak Isla onto the mainland in the hopes the doctor can cure her. He creates a distraction by burning a general store and leaving during low tide. On the mainland, Spike and Isla meet Eric (Edvin Ryding), a Swedish NATO soldier whose squad washed up in England after their boat sank. He saves them from a number of infected, but threatens to kill them when Isla helps a pregnant infected woman give birth to an uninfected baby. However, he's stopped by a variant of the infected called an Alpha, who rips Eric's head and spine off his body. As they escape, Kelson suddenly appears and drugs the Alpha (Chi Lewis-Parry) with a blowdart, and provides Spike, Isla, and the baby with sanctuary in an area where he has built huge towers out of bones and skulls. He calls it the "Memento Mori," Latin for "Remember you die." In one of the film's quieter moments, he diagnoses Isla with cancer, which has spread to her brain. This explains her memory loss and extreme headaches. She chooses to let Kelson euthanize her and she tells Spike that she'll always be with him. She walks off into the darkness with Kelson, and he returns with her skull. In a heartbreaking moment, he lets Spike pick a spot in the Memento Mori to place it, and he climbs to the top of the tower, positioning her skull so that she's forever looking out onto the world. After Isla's death, Spike embraces life on the mainland. The next morning, Spike treks back to the island and leaves the baby outside the gate with a note explaining that she isn't infected, and that he's named her Isla. In a moment of rage and grief, Jamie races out to the sea at high tide to try to find Spike, but he has already disappeared. Spike's decision to leave the safety of the isolated island to explore the mainland alone appears to symbolize that he's left his childhood behind. But a group of infected soon find him while he's cooking fish, and he flees his camping spot. In the film's most surprising moment, he's saved by a man in a bright purple tracksuit and gold jewelry who calls himself Jimmy (Jack O'Connell). Most importantly, he's the boy who survived the film's savage opening. Jimmy is joined by several other young people with long blond hair and matching, colorful tracksuits who kill the infected with large spears. Their appearance is a stark contrast to Spike and the other island survivors, who are haggard. The group's look is reminiscent of Jimmy Savile. The once hugely popular British television presenter who after his death in 2011 was revealed to be a prolific sexual abuser of children and adults. It's possible that in the universe of the horror franchise, Savile's crimes were never uncovered. Jimmy asks Spike if he'd like to go with him, and the film ends there. The scene sets the stage for the sequel, "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," which arrives in theaters on January 16, 2026.
Boston Globe
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘28 Years Later' is a coming-of-age sequel with an identity crisis
For the most part, though, '28 Years Later' is a coming-of-age tale centered around Spike (Alfie Williams), a 12-year-old boy born after the outbreak. Spike is (almost) ready to trade in his Power Rangers toys for bows and arrows in order to join his very manly father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), for his first trip foraging the mainland, now filled with new dangers like the 'Alpha' (infected who are more intelligent and boast superhuman strength). They must also care for Spike's mother and Jamie's wife, Isla (Jodie Comer), who suffers from an illness causing hallucinations and memory problems. From left: Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) in "28 Years Later." Miya Mizuno Advertisement Like the original, which captivated audiences with its intimate portrayal of a found family coming together at the end of the world, '28 Years Later' shines best when it focuses on the humanity of its core characters. The complicated father-son relationship drives the first half of the film, as the stern but loving Jamie teaches his son brutal lessons of living among the infected. 'The more you kill, the easier it gets,' he tells Spike in a scene where they find an infected man with a bag over his head strung up in a house and are forced to shoot him. It's one of several emotionally charged and violent moments that start to erode Spike's innocence. Their bond frays after their harrowing return home, culminating in Spike learning a fact kept hidden by Jamie: There's a mysterious doctor on the mainland (Ralph Fiennes) who might be able to help his sick mother. That secret and other morally questionable decisions shatter Spike's image of his dad. He sets out with his mother in search of the doctor, leaving Jamie behind. From left: Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his son Spike (Alfie Williams) in "28 Years Later." Miya Mizuno Williams brings the raw emotion needed for these pivotal sequences (in one heartbreaking moment, Spike recoils after getting slapped by his father), and, overall, turns in a standout performance. Taylor-Johnson and Comer are quite powerful, too, in their parental roles; I wouldn't have minded more screen time from either. But '28 Years Later' too often veers away from this compelling family drama in favor of zombie-killing spectacle, with blood splatters and bullet-time freezes attached to nearly every slash, shot, and bite (it gets old fast). Some scenes come off more like mindless grindhouse gore than something I was expecting from the filmmakers behind the experimental, claustrophobic original. Advertisement The new film also shifts the antagonist role almost exclusively onto the zombies, like a generic monster movie. But most baffling is the film's uneven use of humor. With '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' another sequel written by Garland and directed by Nia DaCosta ( From left: Spike (Alfie Williams), Isla (Jodie Comer), and Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in "28 Years Later." Miya Mizuno There are other odd moments of humor, too, often from Fiennes's Dr. Kelson, who is not the menacing presence we're led to believe. He's a boogie man turned eccentric sage of sorts for Spike, reminding me of Old Man Marley from 'Home Alone,' but if he stumbled into 'Mad Max.' The iodine-stained doctor is not so scary once you get to know him, made palpable thanks to Fiennes's charm. The biggest laughs, however, belong to Edvin Ryding's Erik, a smart-mouthed Swedish soldier stranded in the quarantined country. Erik and Spike have a genuinely funny exchange about all the new inventions that locked-down Britain has missed out on over the decades, like smartphones and lip fillers. Erik's frank reactions to the zombie mayhem bring a few chuckles too, but his brief cameo felt better suited for a franchise like 'Zombieland.' '28 Years Later' isn't sure what kind of movie it wants to be: Action-comedy? Gory grindhouse? Serious family drama? Despite some interesting concepts and commendable lead performances, its identity problems alienate. It seems like the years have finally caught up. Advertisement ★★ 28 YEARS LATER Directed by Danny Boyle. Written by Alex Garland. Starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. At Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, AMC Boston Common, AMC Causeway, AMC South Bay Center, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Landmark Kendall Square, suburbs. 115 minutes. R (bloody violence, grisly images, language, and lots of graphic zombie nudity) Matt Juul can be reached at
Graziadaily
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
The Verdict Is In On 28 Years Later - Here's What Film Critics Say
With heatwaves continuing around the country all week, it's not exactly horror film weather, yet the highly anticipated sequel, 28 Years Later, lands in cinemas on 20 June. The follow up to Danny Boyle's last post-apocalyptic films, 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, the third instalment promises to be every bit as terrifying. The stellar cast features Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Edvin Ryding, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O'Connell. The film will be closely followed by 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is out in January, and was shot back to back with the film out this month. The latter also stars Hollywood stalwart Cillian Murphy, famed for dedicating himself to his roles, who was rather unfortunately mistaken for the zombie on the film's poster. There's certainly a lot of hype around the movie – and an assumption that, despite the blazing sun, fans of the first two will flock to a cold, dark cinema to watch it in their droves. Is that something you should consider doing this weekend? And how do the critics think it fares against Boyle's first two horrors? Read below to find out. According to the synopsis, the third instalment picks up three decades since the rage virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. Still living in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amid the infected. One such group lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of them decides to venture into the dark heart of the mainland, he soon discovers a mutation that has spread to not only the infected, but other survivors as well. The review embargoes lifted 24 hours before the film hit cinemas and locked in an impressive 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Most critics seem to agree that 28 Years Later is well worth the wait and the story has benefitted from the lengthy gap between instalments. It has also received 7.4/10 on iMDb. One top critic summarised, 'A deeply earnest film, a picture whose sincerity is initially off putting until it's endearing.' Another wrote, ' 28 Years Later is a disorienting barrage of visuals and ideas that works more than it doesn't.' A third put, 'This one feels like a true and proper sequel that, like the original, goes in directions completely unexpected for the genre.' Robbie Collin at The Telegraph has awarded the film five stars and described it as 'transfixingly nasty' and 'a terrifying vision of Britain turning in on itself'. NME also gave the film five stars, with Jordan Bassett calling the film 'brilliantly bizarre' and says it 'turns the franchise on its (decapitated) head'. The Guardian 's chief film critic Peter Bradshaw was less gushing, however. 'This tonally uncertain revival mixes folk horror and little-England satire as an island lad seeks help for his sick mum on the undead-infested mainland,' he wrote. The same goes for Clarisse Loughrey at The Independent who also gave it three stars. Her headline captures her response: ' 28 Years Later feels like being repeatedly bonked on the head by the metaphor hammer.' Meanwhile, Ben Travis at Empire offered four stars. ' 28 Years Later brims with thematic resonances, a canvas on which to illustrate a national identity-crisis,' he writes. 'There is a clear Brexit analogy in a country experiencing isolationism — the rage-ravaged Britain secluded from the world; its people secluded from their own land.' Caryn James at the BBC described the film as a 'monster mash up' which is 'never dull', awarding four stars. 'Separated from the original in every way except its source story, for a long stretch the film lands as a more visually stunning, less emotionally rich variation on The Last of Us ,' the review reads. And it's five stars from the Evening Standard , describing the film as a 'freakshow slaughter fest' and a 'monstrous delight'. Nick Howells writes, 'They've stuffed this film full to the brim. There are even themes of toxic masculinity and assisted dying for those looking for zeitgeisty triggers.' With relatively mixed but overall positive reviews, an incredible cast and a lot of hype, it definitely sounds like 28 Years Later is worth your time. If you still need convincing, watch the trailer below. Nikki Peach is a writer at Grazia UK, working across entertainment, TV and news. She has also written for the i, i-D and the New Statesman Media Group and covers all things pop culture for Grazia (treating high and lowbrow with equal respect).
