When 28 Years Later was first announced, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland weren’t just planning one movie — they had an entire trilogy in mind. The first installment did well enough to keep that plan alive, but 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple wasn’t nearly as lucky at the box office. Naturally, that left fans wondering if the proposed third movie might wind up dead before it even got started. Boyle, however, doesn’t seem too worried, and he sounds pretty confident that 28 Years Later 3 is still going to happen.
28 Years Later 3 Will Happen… At Some Point
“’28 Years 3,’ or whatever it ends up being called, will get made because people keep asking about it,” Boyle told Variety. “Quite when I’m not sure, but there’s a script – a very good script by Alex Garland,” he said. And it will feature Cillian Murphy.“
He continued, “[It will have] a lot of Cillian Murphy in it. Whether he’ll take his kit off anymore, that I don’t know. He’s got the Oscar now.“
Boyle also commented on Murphy’s physique in the first movie. “He’s gorgeous. When we took his kit off, I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “He looked like Iggy Pop! Everything was glistening. Oh my God. He’s just one of those people. He doesn’t work out or anything like that: he just looks like that.“
Earlier this year Boyle told JoBlo that the film will shoot in 2027. “We ran out of time. Because it’s set in an area of Britain [where] you can only film at certain times of the year. We ran out of time this year – we literally ran out of time,” he said. “So it’ll be, hopefully, fingers crossed, next year. But there’s the enthusiasm there, and Alex [Garland] has done a wonderful script for it.“
Ink
Boyle’s next film is Ink, a drama that follows Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) as he accepts Rupert Murdoch’s (Guy Pearce) offer to become editor of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun.
Our own Chris Bumbray caught the film at the Toronto International Film Festival. “The first half of Ink moves like lightning, with Boyle opening up James Graham’s play to such an extent that its stage roots are never obvious,” he wrote in his review. “It’s directed with a lot of verve, while Boyle uses anachronistic needle drops to evoke the initially punk mentality of The Sun before they became bottom feeders.“
Ink is set to be released in select theaters on December 11, before streaming on Netflix on January 8, 2027.
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