{"id":625388,"date":"2025-12-11T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:40:16","slug":"28-years-later-part-3-in-planned-trilogy-officially-moving-forward-with-cillian-murphy-in-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625388\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;28 Years Later&#8217; Part 3 in Planned Trilogy Officially Moving Forward with Cillian Murphy in Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/tag\/28-years-later-the-bone-temple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>, the second installment in the planned trilogy, is arriving next month. Ahead of its release, <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/28-years-later-3-cillian-murphy-alex-garland-1236645207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Sony is officially moving forward on<strong> 28 Years Later Part 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third movie in the latest trilogy doesn\u2019t have a title yet, but <strong>Alex Garland <\/strong>(28 Days Later, 28 Years Later) is returning to pen the script.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cillian Murphy<\/strong>, 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<p>The first two installments in the trilogy were filmed back-to-back, with <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/interviews\/3873288\/how-28-years-later-director-danny-boyle-took-a-risk-with-sequels-new-sound-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Danny Boyle<\/strong><\/a> helming the first film and <strong>Nia DaCosta<\/strong> (Candyman, Hedda) taking the reins for its follow-up. Boyle, the franchise originator, has previously expressed hopes to helm the final installment.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival \u2014 the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Garland, the fourth installment in the post-apocalyptic horror franchise infects theaters on <strong>January 16, 2026<\/strong>, 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[16475,194175,79884,16621,66296,48891,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-625388","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-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115698625706178518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}