Warning: Main SPOILERS lie forward for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple!Regardless of seemingly assembly his demise by the top of the horror sequel, Jack O’Connell thinks Jimmy is not lifeless after 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Launched briefly in Danny Boyle’s 2025 franchise revival, Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal was the son of a minister who went on to kind a Satanist cult after the Rage virus wipes out the British Isles, all styled after notorious DJ Jimmy Savile.
The primary movie noticed Jimmy and his gang, often known as the Fingers, discovering Alfie Williams’ Spike and rescuing him from a pack of contaminated and welcoming him to hitch them. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up with Sir Jimmy testing Spike’s ethical compass as he welcomes him into the group. This contains assaults on different close by survivors, notably Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Ian Kelson, who Sir Jimmy has a number of haunting encounters with.
This in the end culminates in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple‘s ending, during which a last assault on the titular temple leads to Sir Jimmy fatally wounding Dr. Kelson, however Spike additionally stabbing O’Connell’s character and leaving him impaled on an inverted cross, leaving him to be attacked by a newly cured Samson. Nevertheless, in an interview with ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley previous to the movie’s launch, O’Connell is not so certain Sir Jimmy is lifeless.
The Sinners alum acknowledged that “we see some deaths” within the new movie, however stated, “I do not know” concerning Sir Jimmy’s destiny in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. In any case, the sequel has “some unquestionable” deaths, humorously acknowledging “there is no getting back from spines being ripped out of torsos.” Besides, “I did not see Sir Jimmy’s backbone being ripped out of his torso,” leaving him to assume he may not have died.
Between the stabbing, impaling and Samson’s last assault on the character, it does appear extra doubtless that Sir Jimmy will not be again for the following 28 Years Later movie. Throughout its first 4 installments, the horror franchise has performed issues fairly grounded on the subject of character fates, with the closest factor to a twist survival being Catherine McCormack’s Alice having survived 28 Weeks Later‘s brutal opening assault by the contaminated, with a novel immunity to the Rage virus.
Nevertheless, a lot to O’Connell’s level, given 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ends with out exhibiting the extent of Samson’s last assault on Sir Jimmy, there may be nonetheless a chance, even when smaller, that the antagonist continues to be alive. Within the wake of being largely cured of the Rage virus, Samson grew to become one thing of a hybrid, nonetheless viciously attacking sure figures, but additionally having a grasp on his actions and environment. As such, there’s an opportunity he could have stopped himself from absolutely killing Sir Jimmy with the backbone rip he is performed to lots of his victims.
The opposite chance for Sir Jimmy’s survival after 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple‘s ending is that his interplay with Samson has turned him into an contaminated. Given his nature in life, there’s an opportunity Sir Jimmy may develop into an Alpha like Samson and survive his impaling to additional terrorize Spike within the subsequent installment. With the following movie solely having simply been confirmed to be in improvement in December, although, it might be a while earlier than audiences get a definitive reply on his destiny.
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- Launch Date
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January 16, 2026
- Runtime
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109 Minutes
- Director
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Nia DaCosta