28 Years Later Star Gives Update On The Upcoming Film And Its Sequel

The 28 Days Later franchise will finally get its third installment in 2025 with 28 Years Later–in actually only 18 years since the last one–and a sequel. The sequel, subtitled The Bone Temple, will be helmed by Nia DaCosta while Danny Boyle is returning for the first half. There is a fifth film in the works, but Ralph Fiennes, who stars in the upcoming threequel, has said that both parts have been shot.

Talking to IndieWire about his upcoming projects for the next couple of years, Fiennes said that two of the three movies have already been filmed.

“It’s three films, of which two have been shot,” the Oscar-nominated actor said. “Britain is 28 years into this terrible plague of infected people who are violent, rabid humans with a few pockets of uninfected communities.”

Fiennes went on to describe what the Years movies are about. “It centers on a young boy who wants to find a doctor to help his dying mother. He leads his mother through this beautiful northern English terrain. But of course, around them hiding in forests and hills and woods are the infected. But he finds a doctor who is a man we might think is going to be weird and odd, but actually is a force for good.”

The trilogy of sequels was announced back in January with Alex Garland taking the reins as screenwriter of all three. Boyle confirmed that Garland had finished the scripts just two months later.

Along with Fiennes, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Erin Kellyman, and Edvin Ryding have been added to the cast. Cillian Murphy is reuniting with Boyle, reprising his role as 28 Days Later’s Jim more than 20 years after the first film.

28 Years Later is scheduled to premiere on June 20, 2025.