28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer has a terrifying Easter egg you definitely missed

Everyone’s talking about Samson’s underwear in the 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer, but there’s a hidden detail that’s even more disturbing – the end is extremely f**king nigh.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland succeeded in creating a worthy follow-up to 28 Days Later (aka the best zombie movie of all time); terrifying new infected, stunning cinematography, and an ending that really needs to be seen to be believed. 

The plan is for 28 Years Later to be the first in a new trilogy, and though a third hasn’t been confirmed, sequel The Bone Temple was filmed back to back with its predecessor, meaning there’s not long to wait for its release date: January 16, 2025.

A new trailer for the sequel dropped this week, featuring audio that’s just as ominous as 28 Years Later’s ‘Boots’ poem, suggesting the nightmare is far from over. Are you ready?

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer hides chilling 1964 prophecy

The narration you hear in The Bone Temple trailer is actually a speech by sci-fi writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, who made some eerie predictions about the future in a 1964 episode of BBC’s Horizon. 

Clarke’s words were prophetic at the time, but they sound downright apocalyptic as a backdrop to Rage virus chaos. 

In the trailer, he warns, “Trying to predict the future is a discouraging, hazardous occupation. In fact, it may not even exist at all. Many of the things we take for granted will one day pass away completely. When that time comes, men will no longer communicate.

“We may have diseases and barbarism. The whole world will cease to make any sense. Look at the incredible changes we’ve experienced and survived. And yet even greater changes are still to come.”

Clarke’s speech was originally intended as an insightful reflection on technological evolution, and while some of his predictions didn’t come true, many were incredibly accurate. 

Notably, he said innovations in communication transmitters “will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other wherever we may be, where we can contact our friends anywhere on earth even if we don’t know their actual physical location.”

“It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London,” he added. 

The writer – who penned the script for 2001: A Space Odyssey – also made some AI predictions, stating, “The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won’t be men or monkeys; they’ll be machines, the remote descendants of today’s computers.”

A line used in the trailer suggests the world “may not exist at all,” but Clarke wasn’t talking about an apocalypse. He was simply saying that in, say, the year 2000, the world would look completely different to the one they knew in the ‘60s. 

But by splicing his words into the 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer, it transforms an iconic piece of televised history into the perfect (and chilling) backdrop for humanity’s downfall.

“Diseases” is a clear reference to the Rage virus, but “barbarism”? By the looks of things, it’s the Jimmy cult we need to be scared of. 

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple lands in cinemas on January 16, 2025. Until then, check out our breakdown of the 28 Years Late ending, why it’s called 28 Years Later, and find out what else is coming up with our 2025 movies release calendar.