World of Reel<\/a> reports that a recent test screening featured “multiple applause breaks during the film.” One attendee even told the site that, “I thought part 1 was outstanding, but this surpassed it.”<\/p>\nDespite the mixed response to\u00a0Jack O’Connell’s Jimmy (he debuted in a tonally jarring action scene in the closing moments of 28 Years Later), this screening has seen him touted as delivering the “villain performance of the year.”<\/p>\n
The site adds, “The central dynamic is essentially a duel between O\u2019Connell and Ralph Fiennes’ bone shriner,\u00a0Dr. Ian Kelson, who has a larger role than in the first instalment and delivers a performance that’s ‘even better’\u00a0than the previous film.”<\/p>\n
The third act\u2014which reportedly features a sequence “that will be talked about for much of 2026″\u2014is also praised, as is\u00a0Alex Garland’s script.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also of note is the fact that DaCosta hasn’t gone down the iPhone\/handheld camera route, instead choosing to embrace a more orthodox shooting style. However, with Cillian Murphy only expected to have a few seconds of screentime in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, whether any of this will help make it a box office draw is hard to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“[Nia] gets a bit of Cillian at the end,”\u00a0Boyle said earlier this summer.\u00a0“All I can say is you have to wait for Cillian, but hopefully he will help us get the third film financed.”<\/p>\n
“You promise [the studio]\u00a0Cillian Murphy, that’s quite a deflection of any technical concerns, they soon forget,”\u00a0he added.\u00a0“Yeah, we nakedly used that to get our own way. What better promise could you make?”<\/p>\n
“We haven’t got the money for the third one yet. It will depend how the first one does, I guess,”\u00a0Boyle noted.\u00a0“But hopefully if we do ok, they’ll give us the go-ahead for the money and for the third one. Everybody’s standing by for that, really. Including Cillian.”<\/p>\n
In\u00a028 Years Later, it’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway.<\/p>\n
When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.<\/p>\n
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is set to be released in theaters on January 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later opened to extremely positive reviews earlier this year, but wasn’t the hit that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38993,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-94302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94302","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=94302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}