Will Spike return to Holy Island? 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple star weighs in

Dexerto spoke with Alfie Williams about 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and the Spike star weighed in on whether his character could return to Holy Island after everything he goes through with the Jimmy cult. 

The Bone Temple is another horror masterpiece. As we said in our five-star review, Nia DaCosta – who took over directing duties for the sequel – ”stays true to the grimy world of post-apocalyptic Britain while pushing in fresh directions.”

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, filmed back-to-back with The Bone Temple, ends with Spike leaving baby Isla at Holy Island with a note to his father Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) that he’s staying on the mainland. 

While there, Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) and his gang of Jimmys rescue Spike, but in The Bone Temple, he finds out that they’re far more dangerous than he could’ve ever imagined. 

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple talks Spike’s future

Dexerto asked Williams if there’s ever a world in which Spike does return to his father and sister at Holy Island after all he witnesses in The Bone Temple, and his answer is maybe – although he still enjoys being on the mainland. 

“He says in the letter at the end of the first film he’ll come back when he’s ready, and it’s just [about] Spike finding when he’s ready,” Williams told us. 

“It might be a couple months, it might be three years. It’s whenever he’s ready to go back to that life. Frankly, for me personally, I think he enjoys being in the mainland.”

Williams and Samson star Chi Lewis-Parry also spoke about returning to the horror franchise for the third 28 Years Later movie now that we know it’s going ahead. 

“It’s a world I don’t want to leave.  So of course, returning is no question. It’s become something of a life piece for me,” Lewis-Parry replied. “This is 28 Years Later. I mean, it doesn’t really get much bigger than that.”

Williams also praised the film series, saying that it should have its own genre. “People compare it to zombie media and it’s not that. It needs its own genre,” he said. “It’s like, it’s a genre in a post-apocalyptic world, you know? It’s not a zombie film. But it’s great.”