{"id":317708,"date":"2025-12-15T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317708\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:30:09","slug":"the-bone-temple-is-the-series-weird-demented-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317708\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bone Temple Is The Series’ \u2018Weird, Demented Cousin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When 28 Years Later<\/a> arrived earlier this year, it was full of surprises. While Danny Boyle and Alex Garland\u2019s infected odyssey still gave us sprinting zombies, a Britain long in decline nearly three decades into the outbreak, and terrifying new mutations of the virus, it also delivered something soulful and meditative, with a streak of unruliness running right through it. And then, there was that ending<\/a> \u2013 SPOILER ALERT \u2013 in which the acrobatic, wig-wearing youth cult of the Jimmies sprang, quite literally, into action in the film\u2019s final minutes, slicing up the infected with wild abandon, dressed somewhat like\u2026 well, Jimmy Savile. Talk about unexpected.<\/p>\n

By the sounds of it, things are only just getting started. 28 Years Later was shot back-to-back with sequel The Bone Temple<\/a>, written again by Garland and produced by Boyle, with Candyman<\/a>\u2019s Nia DaCosta stepping up as director \u2013 and her film is set to go even darker and stranger. \u201cMy movie is quite\u2026 weird,\u201d she tells Empire. \u201cIt\u2019s surprising. There were multiple moments reading the script where my jaw dropped, literally.\u201d Jack O\u2019Connell, who plays Jimmies leader Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, a sadistic murderer who raised himself in the apocalypse after witnessing his parents\u2019 demises, calls The Bone Temple the \u201cweird, demented, relative cousin of what we\u2019ve seen before, in a way I\u2019m really fucking proud of. Because it\u2019s rooted in soul, and the what-ifs,\u201d he says. \u201cMassive what-ifs. And it\u2019s fucking shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n

In The Bone Temple, expect more danger from the Jimmies as young hero Spike (Alfie Williams) is brought into their ranks, while Ralph Fiennes\u2019 benevolent Dr Kelson strikes up an unlikely kinship with marauding Alpha infected Samson. Among it all, audiences will learn more about the bizarre belief system Sir Lord Jimmy has constructed for himself \u2013 channeled through pop cultural memories from his childhood, like Teletubbies, Power Rangers, cricket, and Jimmy Savile; who, in 2002, had not been unveiled as the monstrous predator he truly was. \u201cThe reality of the viewer and the proposed reality of these characters we\u2019re playing are two very different perspectives,\u201d says O\u2019Connell of the Savile reference. \u201cWhat I hope it does is invite people who watch it to consider that time, consider the zeitgeist of that period when the world in which we\u2019re portraying just fucking went to shit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In DaCosta\u2019s words, she\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cnot doing any Jimmy Savile exploration in my film,\u201d she says \u2013 though there is purpose in the way Sir Lord Jimmy presents himself. \u201cThis character of Jimmy Crystal, he perverts things,\u201d says DaCosta, \u201cand he takes something that\u2019s innocent and great \u2014 like the Teletubbies \u2014 and he makes it horrific.\u201d Prepare for another wild, unexpected journey into the rage apocalypse.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire’s full 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple feature \u2013 speaking to Nia DaCosta, Jack O’Connell and Ralph Fiennes about shaking things up in the infected sequel \u2013 in the Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 18 December. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple comes to UK cinemas from 16 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When 28 Years Later arrived earlier this year, it was full of surprises. While Danny Boyle and Alex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}