Ralph Fiennes plays an important person in 28 years after he will also accompany the Sequel The Bone Temple and has anticipated which themes will be addressed in the next film.
Ralph Fiennes it will most likely return to The Bone Templedirect sequel to 28 years later directed by Nia dacostawhich will take over a Danny Boyle. The latter had already introduced the post-apocalyptic world in 28 days laterstarring at the time Cillian Murphybut after over twenty years he returned to the cinema to tell what happened in all this time. The world is still overwhelmed by the virus, but the characters are different, each struggling with their own battles. The one played by Ralph Fiennes is a doctor who lives among the infected, achieved by a boy who wishes to save his mother.
28 years later: The Bone Temple, Ralph Fiennes anticipates the themes addressed in the sequel: “Pain and destruction”
Alex Garland signed the script of 28 years later and the direct sequel The Bone Temple; The two chapters, moreover, were shot consequentially. In 28 years after the story is that of a group of survivors who lives on an island connected to the mainland only by a very supervised road. Spike He is a boy trained by his father to defend himself from the infects. When, however, it is Spike who wants to save his mother from a mysterious disease, his father becomes an obstacle. Mother and child leave for the mission and find the doctor who lives among the infected, Ian Kelson. Destiny wants the doctor to find them first. And fortunately, considering that they contract a variant of the virus, called Alfa. Eccentric, kind and compassionate, the doctor lives in a temple of bones, bones of humans and infected in equal measure gathered to commemorate their lives. Kelson has built sanctuaries of skulls and bones and that scenario will be the protagonist of the second film. So very likely that the doctor will also be part of the sequel but, in this regard, Ralph Fiennes did not want to tell much. To Entertainment Weekly He revealed: “I can say that the themes we touched in the scene on the train, the moment of labor, humanity … is a critical moment in the life of a mother and a child. The human moment par excellence is that of an infected woman who gives birth to an uninfected child. Is the theme of innate humanity … is still alive in the soul, in the heart, in the mind of an infected person? Is it completely corrupt? Is it just angry? Or is there the possibility of something? Something human, it is still there”.
The actor refers to the scene in which Isla helps one infected and pregnant woman To give birth to his child on an abandoned train and, unexpectedly, the child is not infected. The actor added that another theme to be addressed is the human violence who will be at the center of the rite of passage to which Spike undergoes with his father as he hunts and kills the infects to prove that he is a man: “We bring the potential within us for a terrible destruction and pain. This theme is strongly taken up in the next film“. The Bone Temple has actually already announced its release date for January 2026.
