(L to R) Chi Lewis-Parry and Ralph Fiennes star in ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’.
Opening in theaters on January sixteenth is ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’, which is a comply with as much as final summer season’s ’28 Years Later’ and is the fourth installment of the ’28 Days Later’ franchise.
Launch Date: Jan 16, 2026
Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
Written by Alex Garland (‘Civil Conflict’), produced by Danny Boyle (’Steve Jobs’) and directed by Nia DaCosta (‘The Marvels’), the movie stars returning franchise actors Ralph Fiennes (‘Conclave’) as Dr. Ian Kelson, Alfie Williams (‘His Darkish Supplies’) as Spike, Jack O’Connell (‘Sinners’) as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, and Chi Lewis-Parry (’The Operating Man’) as Samson, in addition to new addition to the sequence, Erin Kellyman (‘Eleanor the Nice’).
Moviefone lately had the pleasure of talking with Ralph Fiennes and Chi Lewis-Parry about their work on ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’, reprising their characters from ’28 Years Later,’ working collectively to create their characters uncommon friendship on display screen, and director Nia DaCosta’s distinctive imaginative and prescient for this world.
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Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in Columbia Footage’ ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. Photograph: Miya Mizuno. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Moviefone: To start with, Ralph, are you able to speak about having the chance to play this character over the course of two movies and what had been a few of the facets of this character you had been excited to discover this time round that you just did not get an opportunity to discover within the final film?
Ralph Fiennes: Nicely, sure, it is nice. Look, it is nice to play a component over two movies. I do not suppose I’ve achieved it earlier than. No, after all I’ve with Voldemort (within the ‘Harry Potter’ sequence) and M (within the James Bond motion pictures), I suppose. However this narrative is extra in favor of Kelson’s story and Samson’s story collectively. Alex (Garland) has written an ideal half. We perceive he is a physician, he takes palliative care of Jodie Comer’s character within the final movie. We perceive he has that physician’s intuition for care however he is in a state of affairs the place he is reliant on survival methods. However I feel this heightens his medical curiosity, which can also be a human curiosity, is not it? If I need to remedy somebody, it is as a result of I consider within the worth of mending a fellow human being. I feel that is completely innate to Kelson. His need to fix, heal, and the place he should settle for loss of life, it is a recognition of the life that has been lived by the one who has died. I feel he is profoundly linked to the human expertise and what it’s to have lived and died. He is received a mix of the medic and the thinker, and I feel that is explored on this. We see his goodness, and in the long run, he places himself on the road to guard younger Spike (Alfie Williams). I feel he is a very good man.
Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) in Columbia Footage’ ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. Photograph: Miya Mizuno. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MF: Chi, what was your method to taking part in Samson and what are the challenges of portraying a personality who’s contaminated?
Chi Lewis-Parry: The chilly, that was a giant problem. Coping with the chilly whereas being principally bare, I discovered that the chilly can actually zap your power. Samson is a really excessive power character, and if he isn’t excessive power, he is sitting or mendacity down, and once more, uncovered to the chilly. It is a psychological state. As soon as the thoughts provides up, I really feel just like the physique follows and then you definately’re in an uncontrollable shiver and that is not good on digicam. There was a psychological stamina that I needed to should nonetheless appear as if this massive bodily imposing destroyer in Samson. It was powerful however manageable.
Nia DaCosta (director, ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’) at CinemaCon 2025 for Sony Footage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on March 31, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph by Stewart Cook dinner/Sony Footage by way of Getty Pictures.
MF: Ralph, what was it like working with director Nia DaCosta and might you speak about her distinctive imaginative and prescient for this world?
RF: Nicely, she was intent to come back with a unique filming method. I feel she made that clear to Danny (Boyle) and Alex, she did not need to ever try and imitate Danny’s directorial model. She got here with a forensic delicacy. She loves the closeups and what is going on on contained in the face of somebody. The closeup is a good magnifier of human thought in a life and I feel she’s edited the movie to permit the closeups to breathe and I like that.
(L to R) Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) and Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in Columbia Footage’ ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. Photograph: Miya Mizuno. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MF: Chi, are you able to speak about Samson’s uncommon friendship with Dr. Kelson and what it was like engaged on the connection with Ralph?
CLP: It was an entire dream come true. The connection on display screen could be very a lot the connection we now have in actual life as a result of I’ve an affection for the person. I do not disguise it. If something, I have a good time it. I feel to have found a buddy on this medium, I suppose, is odd and uncommon, particularly one with such affection as a result of I like him, and he is aware of that. I am so happy with being part of this excellent expertise, and this excellent movie. I am unable to anticipate the universe to see it.
Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in Columbia Footage’ ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MF: Lastly, Ralph, what was your expertise like working with Chi on this undertaking?
RF: Working with Chi was fantastic. He is beneficiant. He is dedicated. He is at all times current, able to go, and able to give of himself within the second. That is what you need with a very good display screen associate is that we dance collectively actually however we additionally dance collectively in our energies. He does not communicate a lot however all these scenes, he was transmitting emotions and ideas and inside impulses which I might see in his face. That is stuff simply emerged between us. He comes onto the set with this excellent generosity of spirit, and that is uncommon.
(L to R) Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and Sir Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) in Columbia Footage’ ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. Photograph: Courtesy of Sony Footage. © 2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
What’s the plot of ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’?
Going down after the occasions of the earlier movie, Spike (Alfie Williams) is inducted into Sir Jimmy Crystal’s (Jack O’Connell) gang of acrobatic killers in a post-apocalyptic Britain ravaged by the Rage Virus. In the meantime, Dr Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) kinds a brand new relationship with doubtlessly world altering penalties.
Who’s within the forged of ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’?
- Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Ian Kelson
- Jack O’Connell as Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal
- Alfie Williams as Spike
- Erin Kellyman as Jimmy Ink
- Chi Lewis-Parry as “Samson”
- Emma Laird as Jimmima
- Maura Fowl as Jimmy Jones
- Ghazi Al Ruffai as Jimmy Snake
- Sam Locke as Jimmy Fox
’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ opens in theaters on January sixteenth.