The Third ’28 Years Later’ Film Is Really Taking place

28 Years Later was all the time a trilogy. It has been that means each single day since early 2024, when it was first introduced. Director Danny Boyle and author Alex Garland conceived it as such, but solely bought Sony to commit to creating two of the three movies. The third movie would solely come if Sony noticed the viewers’s urge for food for it. And now it has.

Movie two within the sequence, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, opens subsequent month, however following a sequence of very well-received press screenings, Deadline studies Sony has given a inexperienced gentle to the nonetheless untitled third movie. Garland is writing, Boyle is predicted to direct, and most significantly, Cillian Murphy is predicted to star.

Murphy bought his massive break means again in 2002 when Boyle and Garland first teamed up for the indie hit 28 Days Later. Within the many years that adopted, he’s grown into a serious star, even successful the Oscar for Finest Actor earlier this yr for his work in Oppenheimer. His character survived the unique movie, however didn’t seem within the first sequel, 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, or this yr’s 28 Years Later. He apparently seems close to the top of The Bone Temple, establishing a narrative that can carry the entire franchise collectively.

It’s all a part of that massive, authentic plan. “That was key to the concept was it was a narrative that couldn’t naturally slot in one movie,” Garland told io9 last year. “And there was a risk—which we might not have the chance to do—however to do a correct trilogy. Not a sequence of sequels which might be successfully replaying the very first thing simply in barely totally different varieties, however an precise true narrative. And we don’t know if we’ll be capable of do it as a result of that relates, ultimately, to market forces. Movies price some huge cash. Even low-cost movies price some huge cash. You already know, individuals speak low-budget, nevertheless it’s some huge cash all the time. And in order that will depend on actually whether or not individuals need to see future ones after we’ve made it.”

It relies upon not. It’s occurring. And we will’t wait to see the way it all comes collectively. 28 Years Later is now accessible to look at at residence. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, directed by Nia DaCosta, opens January 16, 2026.

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