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Amy West

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple director praises Danny Boyle and Alex Garland for "really letting me do my thing" with the horror sequel: "I feel so protective of that legacy"

Alfie Williams as Spike in 28 Years Later The Bone Temple.

Director Nia DaCosta is no stranger to helming long-awaited horror sequels, having teamed up with Oscar winner Jordan Peele for 2021's Candyman, which takes place almost three decades after the events of its original. The filmmaker tackles a similar-length gap with her upcoming movie 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – but with the unique challenge of picking up exactly where Danny Boyle's predecessor left off.

So much so, in fact, that she was responsible for tapping Jack O'Connell to play blond-bobbed villain Jimmy Crystal, whose cult is introduced in the very last scene of the critically acclaimed 28 Years Later.

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