The trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple could emerge on the 18th July – appropriately, 28 days after its predecessor hit cinemas.
Released in June, 28 Years Later was both a horror sequel and the first in a planned trilogy of post-apocalyptic chillers. That film’s director Danny Boyle is handing over the reins to Nia DaCosta for the next film in the series, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, due out in January 2026. There’s a matter of months to go, then, so where’s the trailer?
A viral website for 28 Years Later may have the answer.
Word of the site first emerged earlier this year. Called RageLeaks, it can be accessed by typing in ‘memento mori’ – a password obtained by solving a puzzle tucked away in a 28 Years Later trailer. The site contains images, sound clips and snippets of text designed to flesh out screenwriter Alex Garland’s world – an isolated Britain filled with Rage-infected humans, and the Lindisfarne commune that serves as its story’s hub.
The site hasn’t been updated for several weeks, but there’s a potentially significant detail at the top of the screen: a continually updating timer, which at the time of writing reads ’28 years, 3 weeks: 5 days: 10 hours: 23 minutes: 5 seconds’:
This is, of course, a reference to both the film’s title and the passage of time that lies between its events and those of Boyle and Garland’s seminal 2002 horror, 28 Days Later. The weeks and days, meanwhile, are counting upwards from 28 Years Later’s release date: the 20th June 2025.
Why is it doing this? Most likely because the counter is building towards the release of the trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
As these words are being written on the 16th July, it’s 26 days since that last film came out. If our theory’s correct, then the trailer for The Bone Temple will appear on the Friday 18th July – 28 days after 28 Years Later.
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Anyone who’s seen 28 Years Later will know that it plants the seeds for a very different kind of sequel, and so it makes sense that Sony wouldn’t rush to put out a potentially revealing trailer before audiences have had time to soak up the previous film’s conclusion. It’ll certainly be fascinating to see where DaCosta – who previously brought us The Marvels, Little Woods and the superb Candyman – takes the saga next.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple will appear in UK cinemas on the 6th January 2026. Unless we’re completely mistaken, our first proper glimpse of it is mere days away.
