28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It continues directly from 28 Years Later (2025), following Spike after his encounter with the violent cult-like group known as the Fingers, led by the unstable Jimmy Crystal, while Dr. Ian Kelson continues his disturbing work around the Bone Temple itself. Compared with Danny Boyle’s previous film, this sequel appears to push the series into a more enclosed, ritualistic and psychologically strange direction, expanding the world of the Rage Virus through cult behaviour, survivalist violence and the eerie memorial landscape built from the dead.

The film was shot mainly in northern England, with production returning to several of the regions used for 28 Years Later (2025). Filming took place around northeast England, the Lake District, Tyne and Wear and North Yorkshire, with Ennerdale in Cumbria used for valley landscapes and the closed Richard Dunn Sports Centre in Bradford used for the abandoned leisure-centre opening. The Bone Temple set itself was constructed in Redmire, North Yorkshire, while other reported locations include Fountains Abbey, Cheddar, Chopwell Wood and Plankey Mill. This gives the film a more concentrated and oppressive geographical feel than its predecessor, built from ruined civic spaces, wooded northern landscapes, valleys, old religious environments and the stark, ritualised space of the Bone Temple itself.