Warning: SPOILERS lie forward for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple!Jack O’Connell is likely to be saying goodbye to Danny Boyle’s acclaimed horror franchise after 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and he reveals his hope for Cillian Murphy’s future as Jim. The Sinners alum served as an antagonist for the second chapter of the brand new trilogy in Boyle’s sequence, enjoying charismatic Satanic cult chief Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, with Murphy reprising his position from 28 Days Later within the sequel’s ending.
Whereas his ruthlessness saved him alive and in command of The Fingers for years within the wake of the Rage virus taking out the British Isles, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple‘s ending noticed Alfie Williams’ Spike rise as much as stab and depart Sir Jimmy for dying, happening to proceed his journey of exploration with Erin Kellyman’s Kelly. Their journeys in the end carry them towards Murphy’s Jim, whose morning of homeschooling his daughter is interrupted by racing to assist Spike and Kelly escape from a horde of contaminated.
Now, in an interview with ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley forward of the film’s launch, Jack O’Connell opened up about Murphy’s return as Jim in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. When requested about what a dialog between Jimmy and Jim may have been, the star humorously admitted Murphy’s character is “in all probability one scalp too many for Sir Jimmy” to try to add to his cult, regardless of saying a movie with the 2 interacting can be one “I might go see.”
O’Connell additionally went on to precise a slight disappointment in not getting to satisfy Murphy whereas filming the 28 Days Later sequel, confirming their schedules “by no means coincided,” however believes “we used the identical trailer.” Chuckling as he mentioned “we have been this shut to satisfying,” the star “can all the time say” that he and Murphy shared an area in a technical sense.
Previous to O’Connell being revealed because the chief of the cult within the first film, there have been fan theories that the Jimmys have been certainly led by Cillian Murphy’s Jim in 28 Years Later. Extra than simply the shared title, the darker flip seen with Murphy’s character within the climax of Boyle’s authentic movie led some to consider that he was able to branching out right into a Satanism-driven cult.
Although mentioned theories might not have come to fruition, O’Connell’s feeling {that a} story revolving round Jimmy and Jim would’ve made for an intriguing movie is bound to ring true for followers of the franchise. Contemplating Murphy’s character discovered it in himself within the years since he was final seen in 28 Days Later‘s ending to construct a household within the face of the apocalypse, whereas O’Connell’s turned to assembling a violent group, the pair would seemingly have been foes within the subsequent 28 Years Later film, although ones with intriguing philosophical debates.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple leaves some lingering threads to be resolved within the upcoming sequel, together with some that might remodel the longer term.
It’s value nothing, nonetheless, that O’Connell believes his character to have survived 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which author Alex Garland and Boyle may resolve to observe by means of with and make a showdown between the pair occur. With the most recent installment ending with Jimmy about to be attacked by the contaminated, the sequel may see O’Connell turn out to be an Alpha who proves particularly troublesome for Murphy’s character. Nonetheless, the most probably end result is that the Sinners vet must wait for an additional undertaking to try to work with Murphy on.
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January 16, 2026
- Runtime
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109 Minutes
- Director
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Nia DaCosta
- Producers
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Andrew Macdonald, Bernard Bellew, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Peter Rice
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Jack O’Connell
Jimmy Crystal