Ralph Fiennes teases ’28 Years Later’ sequel ‘The Bone Temple’

With 28 years laterdirector Danny Boyle finds his 28 days later The screenwriter Alex Garland to amplify the horrors of the fight against the dead – while painting a more burning portrait on what it means to be alive.

The newcomer Alfie Williams breathes a new life with pulsating horror as a Spike, a 12-year-old boy who lives on a small British island with a survivor community, 28 years after the rage virus ravaged the United Kingdom. When he learns that a doctor, Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes), lives on the continent among the infected, the intrepid tip embarks on a perilous journey to transport his mother in ISADLA difficulty (Jodie Comer) – who suffers from a mysterious doctor who made him the loss of memory and to debilitate the kiosks – to the doctor in Hopes of Saving.

Kelson, however, finds Isla and Spike before finding it, coming to the rescue when the duo is targeted by an infected variant called Alpha. Contrary to what Spike had been told, Kelson, although extremely eccentric, is compassionate and kind – despite the perspective of him living among a bone temple. Literally. He collects the bones of humans and infected who died to commemorate their lives, having built imposing sanctuaries of skulls and bones which help to lose more understanding of the future, 28 years later: the bone temple.

“There is a warmth for him,” says Fiennes Weekly entertainment of his “unusual” character. “It is very happy to see people who are not infected.”

Kelson is able to assess that Isla is dying of cancer. The matriarch decides to put an end to its sufferings, and it is Spike who commemorates it by placing its bones at the top of one of the sanctuaries. The film ends with a mourning point crossing the continental solo, refusing to return to the island and his father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) until he has time to cry. A horde of infects is getting closer to Spike in the last moments before the credit bearing, but a team of survivors in the survivors in tracksuits to help the boy, one of which is a familiar face: an Scottish man named Jimmy (played by Jack O’Connell), who was briefly presented in the opening scene as a young boy who survives The infected on the Scottish.

Trace the details of The bone temple are still under the wraps, but expect to see more Kelson of Fiennes in the following. In theaters on January 16, 2026, The bone temple was filmed consecutive with 28 years later and directed not by boyle but Candy And Wonders’ Nia Dacosta. (Garland also wrote the script for the suite.) Boyle also confirmed that 28 days later Star Cillian Murphy, also an executive producer of the latter entry, will resume his role as Jim.

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“Obviously, I cannot give too much,” said Fiennes to EW when he is pressed over the rest. However, he quotes a memorable scene as being an integral part of the way in which the story takes place: Isla helping an infected enclosure (!) Through childbirth on an abandoned train.

“I can say that the themes we have addressed in the scene on the train, the moment of work, humanity – is a critical moment in the life of a mother and a child,” explains Fiennes. “The ultimate human moment is an infected woman who gives birth to a baby who is not infected. The theme of innate humanity-is still alive in the soul, in the heart, in the minds of an infected person? Are they completely corrupt? Are they only rabid? Or is there the possibility of something human is still there.”

Fiennes also notes “human violence” at the center of the rite of passage that Spike takes part in his father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) of hunting and infected death to become a man. “We carry in us the potential for terrible destruction and pain,” explains Fiennes. “This theme is taken up very strongly in the next film.”

28 years later is in theaters now.