Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson and Samson the Alpha Return in “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” Trailer
The first trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has arrived, the upcoming second entry in the new trilogy kick-started by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland last year. The Bone Temple, directed by Candyman helmer Nia DaCosta, centers on returning characters from Boyle’s 2025 film, including Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson, the loneliest man in a rage virus-ravaged England, and showcases a coming showdown between the good doctor and the colossal zombie, Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry).
28 Years Later ended with Spike (Alfie Williams) choosing not to return to his relatively safe tidal island, where his father, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), was waiting. Spike had ventured onto the mainland with his sick mother, Isla (Jodie Comer), in a desperate attempt to get her well. When they found Dr. Kelson, all he could offer was a painless and quick death for the dying Isla. Spike, devastated and disillusioned by his father’s lies and lifestyle, decides to stay out on the dangerous mainland. There, he’s met and saved by the Jimmys, a band of blonde hooligans, led by Jimmy Jimmy (Robert Rhodes). Jimmy is a grown man now, but a boy in the previous film when his family was attacked by the infected.
The new trailer shows the expanded universe that producer Boyle, director DaCosta, and writer Garland are preparing for us. Spike appears to be in the middle of a coming war, with Jimmy’s gang, the infected, the colossal Samson, and the reclusive Dr. Kelson all set to collide.
Check out the trailer below. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple arrives in theaters on January 16, 2026.
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Featured image: Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in Columbia Pictures’ 28 YEARS LATER.
