’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Director Nia DaCosta Breaks Down That Ending and What Lies Ahead

#wqeb973newz | Los Angeles, CA – The filmmaker has some tantalizing answers to questions audiences are left with at the end of her installment.

Nia DaCosta is well aware of the narrative that’s forming around her back-to-back critical darlings of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Hedda. But she can only laugh at the notion that the critical and commercial underperformance of 2023’s The Marvels fueled her to silence any persisting naysayers. DaCosta has previously admitted that her threefold MCU sequel to Captain Marvel, WandaVision and Ms. Marvel evolved beyond what she originally pitched and filmed, so she readied herself for what was to come during the November 2023 release.

“It does seem like I reacted very strongly to the response of The Marvels. But it was really interesting because I was prepared for what The Marvels would be in terms of its release. So I guess therapy has worked on me because I felt quite okay about it,” DaCosta tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Obviously, you want your films to be received well. This is an audience-driven medium. So when 28 came around, I definitely was like, ‘Oh, I want to show what I can do.’ It was important that the movie be great and that I love it.”

DaCosta accomplished her very mission as The Bone Temple — the Alex Garland-penned follow-up to his and director Danny Boyle’s 2025 franchise relaunch, 28 Years Later — is now her most well-received film among both critics and audiences. DaCosta’s installment offers a number of major developments that Boyle’s trilogy capper will resolve at some point in the near future. (Spoilers ahead …)

For starters, Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Ian Kelson achieved a major breakthrough in terms of finding a cure for the Infected. His treatment of Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) with a morphine cocktail and anti-psychotic medication dampened the infected Alpha’s aggression and psychosis, returning him to a more lucid, human-like state in which he can communicate and recall memories from his childhood. DaCosta hesitates to say that Dr. Kelson has definitively found a cure, but Samson is no longer the infected Alpha he was at the start of this trilogy. #niadacosta #director #marvels #thebonetemple #wqeb973newz

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