Considering the fact that a third 28 Years Later movie was confirmed to be in the works at Sony nearly half a year ago now, there’s been an awful lot of speculation about whether 28 Years Lat3r (as nobody is calling it) will actually happen. Despite being a critical hit, Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — the follow-up to last year’s Danny Boyle directed, franchise-reviving 28 Years Later — bowed to a box office showing the director herself recently told Empire she was ‘disappointed’ by, and Sony execs have been real quiet about Boyle’s planned trilogy capper since Christmas. But hope springs eternal, and a new Instagram post from series star Alfie Williams — aka Spike — has caught our eye. Check it out below;
Well we don’t know about you, but it is kind of hard to see what else could prompt Alfie Williams to upload a photo of himself training with his bow and arrow alongside a caption reading ‘It’s great to be back!’ If the young star had said it’s great to be back training, or that it’s great to be back down at his local archery club, then fair enough, maybe we’d be inclined to chalk it up to bait and carry on with our day. But the declaration — ‘It’s great to be back!’ — feels like it can mean only one thing. And following the tense climax of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, in which *SPOILER WARNING* our boy Spike and former Jimmy Ink Kellie (Erin Kellyman) find themselves running for their lives from the Infected, straight into the path of Cillian Murphy’s Jim and his daughter *SPOILER ENDS*, there’s no doubting that this is a story that knows exactly where it’s heading next.
Now, until we get official (re)confirmation from Sony that 28 Years Later is going to get the Danny Boyle directed trilogy closer it was always meant to have, we’ll resist giving in to speculation and rumour millery. But if Alfie Williams is back in training, and it is for a return to the Rage-ravaged world of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s creation, then that’s all very good news to us. Until we hear more though, excuse us while we go crack out the black eyeliner, conjure up a big ol’ circle of fire, and rock out to ‘The Number Of The Beast’. Woe to you, oh earth and sea…
