The long-awaited28 Years Laterisn’t being released for seven months, but it already has a sequel set for July 23, 2025, on Martin Luther King weekend. Titled28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the sequel is still shrouded in mystery, but it is confirmed that Danny Boyle will not be directing. Instead,Nia DaCostawill be directing Alex Garland’s screenplay. The producers are Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, and Bernard Bellew. Cillian Murphy is executive producing (andmay appear as a zombie, who knows?).The Bone Templewas apparently filmed back-to-back with28 Years Later, so it is somewhat interesting that it’s being released seven months apart.
Nia DaCosta is familiar with franchise filmmaking, having most recently directedThe Marvels. If the factshe directed that box office bombhas you worried about her28 Years Laterinstallment, there is hope — her remake ofCandyman,which she wrote with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, is extremely stylish, spooky, and interesting, though it certainly has its detractors, too.
In addition to28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, DaCosta is writing and directingHedda, which reunites her with Tessa Thompson, the star of her first feature film, the universally acclaimedLittle Woods. Hedda is an adaptation of the famous Henrik Ibsen play,Hedda Gabler, about a woman in a loveless marriage with a high-ranking military official for a father.
What That Creepy Poem Meant in the ‘28 Years Later’ Trailer
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What to Expect from the ‘28 Years Later’ Trilogy
DaCosta’s film is slotted in the middle of the proposed28 Years Latertrilogy, which comes 23 years after the original film and 18 years after its lesser-loved but still good sequel,28 Weeks Later. By the time the third film in the trilogy is released, it probably will be 28 years since the first film. Ironically, that seems to be part of the point, with writer Alex Garland previously telling theReelBlendpodcast that one of the franchise’s major themes is time itself.:
It’s to do with the passage of time, and thinking about what effect the passage of time would have. Is it what you would traditionally call a post-apocalyptic state? Or has something else begun to manifest? Time is really at the core of the engine of the film.
The official synopsis for28 Years Laterreads as follows:
“It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.”
There are currently no plot details about28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, but watch this space for more information. The original28 Days Lateris available to rent or buy on Prime Video through the link below:
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