Warning: this article contains major spoilers For “28 years later”. Read at your own risk.

At the very end of The frightening, horrible and emotional “28 years later”, “ The director Danny Boyle stops trying to burst your heart through your chest and prepares us instead for a case of cinematographic boost. In the last moments of the film, the cries of the blood currency fill the air while Spike (Alfie Williams) springs on a highway on a mountain side, to reach a dead end with a closure group infected with rabies. “MICHE” sinners “, Jack O’Connell. He and a team dressed in similar outfits descend to the frantic crowd and quickly send them with impressive gymnastics and combat skills. It is only when the dust sets in and that the infected are deleted that it becomes obvious for many public members based in the United Kingdom in which the Young Spike company has been found, and it must move away as much as possible.

In a bizarre and disarticulated way, it quickly becomes clear that this hero gang is modeled after one of the most notorious and horrible figures in British culture, which could trigger another type of dread and limited offense for certain moviegoers based in the United Kingdom. For Boyle and the writer Alex Garland, however, they know exactly what they do: press a nerve that the local public would prefer them not. This wandering stranger is called Sir Jimmy Crystal, whose name and look compliant with the now haunting fashion of Jimmy Savile, one of the most predatory sex offenders in Great Britain.

Speaking as a person of “the continent” seated in a projection of London on the night of his world premiere, I can confirm that there was a collective moment of discomfort when Le Penny fell to what was on the screen, and who it was Jack O’Connell was supposed to pay a sinister tribute. At this point, we had seen a victim of rage giving birth and a boy will carefully place his mother’s head on a heap of others, but see someone disguised as Jimmy Savile beat them all, given the immense controversy and the horror surrounding this well -known aggressor, who was never accused of his crimes.

A Popular Radio DJ in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a children’s television program who was knight for his charity work, Saville died in 2011 at the age of 85. However, the following year led to one of the darkest chapters of British television and the nation as a whole, when a scandal seized the country and more than 450 sexual affirmations. involving necrophilic activity in hospitals. During these surveys, the BBC was reviewed, having supported Savile for most of its career, questioning the knowledge of the chain of its activities.

Referencing such an odious individual is a discordant direction to take, in particular against a post-apocalyptic framework. So, what has it to do with “28 years later” and what could be the impact for the franchise in the future?

“28 years later” begins with Boyle and Garland sending us back to this nightmarish world by teletubbies. Playing on a worn VHS, the children watch the puffs of Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and PO while an invasion of infects sweeps their house, just outside their living room door. It is one of the many small details that highlight exactly where society in the United Kingdom collapsed when the virus broke out. The first film was released in 2002, which, if we mix our chronology with the Boyle zombie universe, is a complete decade before the Savile exhibition. It also serves our first introduction to Jimmy when he was a child, who grew up with a biased perspective, including who he chooses to see as a hero.

Without contact with the outside world, and perhaps only video bands from a bygone era to the reference, it is logical in this catastrophic and disarticulated world that the reputation of a children’s television host and a charity worker remains intact. Now, with such a crucial moment in the history of the United Kingdom, Savile could rather be idolized in this miserable future in which the survivors of the infection found themselves. Which is rightly twisted and which is worth being questioned, however, what kind of cultists has created and the dangerous game that Garland and Boyle could set up to play. Creating a new breed of terror is one thing, but based on a real monster which is always a very sensitive subject is something else.

While Jimmy d’O’Connell is the most eminent member of the gang which comes using Spike, the credits list a group that all shares variations of the same name. The star of “Falcon and the Winter Soldier”, Erin Kellyman is listed on IMDB As Jimmy Ink, Robert Rhodes as Jimmy Jimmy and Emma Laird of the reputation of “Mayor of Kingstown” is credited like Jimmima. With all these names and matching outfits, Alex Garland seems to have created his own droog group similar to the gang directed by Alex de Malcolm MacDowell in “A Clockwork Orange” (A film which was prohibited as a “nasty video” in the United Kingdom and which could not be seen for 25 years) And stuck them in this universe infested with zombies. It looks like a nightmarish cocktail of British nostalgia which is intentionally difficult to swallow, but one that O’Connell seems eager to move in the inevitable suite of the film.

In an interview Gq Earlier this year, the star of “Sinners” took a moment to refer to what we can expect for his character when he appears in the suite led by Nia Dacosta, “28 years later: The Bone Temple”. “Yes, Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, a complete nickname. It’s a … It’s a C ** T gas,” said the actor. “I do not yet know how to describe it. But exciting to portray, that’s for sure. There is definitely in the darker pocket, unlike everything I have ever played before.”

We will see how dark things become when “28 years later: the bone temple” opens its doors to theaters on January 16, 2026.