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Murphy, who played survivor Jim in Danny Boyle's original 28 Days Later, did not appear in 2025's 28 Years Later, also directed by Boyle. However, he did serve as an executive producer, and Boyle confirmed that Murphy would be back as Jim in The Bone Temple.

This post contains spoilers for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. As the group traverses the British countryside—inching ever closer to an inevitable encounter with Dr. Ian Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) and his increasingly domesticated Alpha infected Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry)—they come across an unsuspecting group of survivors who have taken up residence at a nearby farm.

Danny Boyle cedes directorial duties to the ‘Candyman’ filmmaker for a bold and deceptively playful post-apocalyptic follow-up

As it stands, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has a certified fresh 94% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, with audience scores not coming in until its release this weekend. That is better than the 89% of the first 28 Years Later film, and also better than the 83% of 28 Days Later and 73% of 28 Weeks Later.

TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. That energy and its distinctness from Boyle’s directorial voice is palpable in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — a film that understands how much more potent horror is when it’s laced with goofy humor.

The Bone Temple has begun the MLK weekend with $2.1M in previews from 2PM showtimes yesterday. As expected, that’s lower than last summer’s $5.8M previews for 28 Years Later, that movie’s Thursday boosted by the Juneteenth holiday moviegoers.