You’ll Have to Wait About 28 Weeks for 28 Years Later‘s Sequel

You won’t person to hold 28 years for the sequel to 28 Years Later. In fact, you’ll fundamentally lone beryllium waiting astir 28 weeks. Sony conscionable announced that the sequel to Danny Boyle’s 2025 zombie sequel volition beryllium released connected January 16, 2026. It’s called 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and, as we antecedently knew, it’s directed by Nia DaCosta.

That’s a batch of numbers and dates truthful let’s reset here. In 2002, manager Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland made a zombie movie called 28 Days Later. The movie was a deed and, successful 2007, we got a sequel called 28 Weeks Later. That did good but the franchise went quiescent for a spot until Garland, who himself became a celebrated director, came up with a caller idea. That film, 28 Years Later, is scheduled for merchandise June 20, 2025 and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Ralph Fiennes. The trailer was conscionable released and was truthful successful, Sony unearthed the archetypal for integer release. 

28 Years Later was created to beryllium the first movie successful a zombie trilogy though truthful Sony rapidly hired Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) to marque its sequel. It’ll beryllium the archetypal movie that doesn’t alteration the magnitude of time, conscionable adding a subtitle: “The Bone Temple,” immoderate that means. Any details astir portion 3 are inactive a enigma astatine this point.

After waiting years upon years for these sequels though, having the 2 films travel retired 30 weeks isolated (six and a fractional months, basically) is alternatively exciting. That benignant of happening doesn’t hap excessively often these days (or, adjacent if it’s the plan, it’s usually canceled) truthful we’ll spot however it goes.

No connection connected the crippled of The Bone Temple because, frankly, we don’t rather cognize the crippled of 28 Years Later yet. But rumor has it archetypal prima Cillian Murphy, an Oscar victor who is producing these films, won’t amusement up successful immoderate large mode until this 2nd movie successful the series.

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