Danny Boyle fans have waited a long time for 28 Years Later to finally hit theaters on June 20th 2025. The good news is they won’t have to wait long for the next sequel to arrive. Sony has announced that Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will hit theaters on January 16th 2026.
That’s just seven months between movies. Boyle and DaCosta shot the two movies back-to-back, working from Alex Garland’s screenplay. Plot details remain under wraps. What the heck is a Bone Temple, anyway? Sounds freaky.
28 Years Later stars Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Edvin Ryding. Taylor-Johnson’s character will survive long enough to appear in The Bone Temple, as well, and he’ll be joined by Cillian Murphy who reprises his role as Jim, protagonist of 2002’s 28 Days Later.
DaCosta is best known for directing The Marvels, Candyman, and Little Woods.
Here’s the synopsis for 28 Years Later: 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.
