Ralph Fiennes getting into his role in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Sony Pictures It’s hard to overstate just how influential 28 Days Later has been. The 2002 film – in which courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes from a coma to find the UK consumed by the “rage virus”, causing those infected to rip anyone nearby apart – was the blueprint for the past two decades of zombie media. It is a brutal take on violence erupting in an already rotten society. It would have been easy for the franchise’s new trilogy of films to simply replicate this formula. But 2025’s 28 Years Later, the first of the three, set decades after the initial outbreak, blew up the foundations of the series and transformed it into something new and fascinating. In telling the story of Spike (Alfie Williams), a 12-year-old boy from a virus-free island off the ravaged mainland of Britain, it revealed the speciation of the formerly indistinguishable infected, introducing Alphas like Samson (Chi-Lewis Parry) who are capable of strategic thought. The truly …