Nia DaCosta’s sequel to 28 Years Later had its world premiere at the BFI IMAX, with Cillian Murphy, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland among its makers on the carpet.
Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple had its world premiere at the BFI IMAX on the South Bank on Tuesday 13 January 2026. Cillian Murphy, star of the first film and executive producer of this one, joined her there.
DaCosta was born in Brooklyn in 1989, grew up in Harlem. Her first feature, Little Woods, won the Nora Ephron Award at Tribeca in 2018.
She directed episodes of Top Boy, and Candyman made her the first Black woman director to open a film at number one in American cinemas. The Marvels and Hedda followed.
The Bone Temple is the fourth film in the series Danny Boyle and Alex Garland began with 28 Days Later in 2002. Garland wrote it, and it was shot back to back with 28 Years Later. Spike, played by Alfie Williams, falls in with Jimmy Crystal’s cult.
Sony released the film in British cinemas the same day, in a double bill with 28 Years Later.
Boyle and Garland walked the carpet with DaCosta, as did Jack O’Connell, who plays Jimmy Crystal, and Williams, Erin Kellyman, Chi Lewis-Parry and Emma Laird.