{"id":178468,"date":"2025-12-11T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:29:09","slug":"28-years-later-part-3-in-planned-trilogy-officially-moving-forward-with-cillian-murphy-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178468\/","title":{"rendered":"’28 Years Later’ Part 3 in Planned Trilogy Officially Moving Forward with Cillian Murphy in Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>, the second installment in the planned trilogy, is arriving next month. Ahead of its release, Deadline<\/a> reports that Sony is officially moving forward on 28 Years Later Part 3.<\/p>\n

The third movie in the latest trilogy doesn\u2019t have a title yet, but Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Years Later) is returning to pen the script.<\/p>\n

Cillian Murphy, who reprises his 28 Days Later role in The Bone Temple,\u00a0is in talks to return for the final entry in the trilogy. His character, Jim, was last seen at a remote cottage with fellow survivors when 28 Days Later ended.<\/p>\n

The first two installments in the trilogy were filmed back-to-back, with Danny Boyle<\/a> helming the first film and Nia DaCosta (Candyman, Hedda) taking the reins for its follow-up. Boyle, the franchise originator, has previously expressed hopes to helm the final installment.<\/p>\n

In The Bone Temple, Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship \u2014 with consequences that could change the world as they know it\u00a0\u2014 and Spike\u2019s (Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can\u2019t escape.<\/p>\n

The infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival \u2014 the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.<\/p>\n

Written by Garland, the fourth installment in the post-apocalyptic horror franchise infects theaters on January 16, 2026, via Sony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the second installment in the planned trilogy, is arriving next month. Ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32050,114072,91331,21374,6678,32052,156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-178468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later","9":"tag-28-years-later-3","10":"tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","11":"tag-alex-garland","12":"tag-cillian-murphy","13":"tag-danny-boyle","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}