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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Is a Great Film’s Ugly Inverse
- At the climactic moment on the ossuary set, Doctor Ian Kelson, played by Ralph Fiennes, performs shirtless amid fire while belting Iron Maiden's 'The Number of the Beast' to The Jimmies.
- Alex Garland's original script envisioned different specifics, including full nudity and Ralph Fiennes singing live vocals, which director Nia DaCosta and editor Jake Roberts later altered.
- Shelley Maxwell, choreographer, drew on butoh and haka while production designers, costume designers, VFX artists, movement director and stunt team rebuilt the sequence over months, with Ralph Fiennes, actor, performing nearly all stunts and mouthing lyrics.
- Because Otto's gear didn't meet UK safety standards, the production crew responsible for safety limited runs, cooled him between takes, treated actor clothing, and timed flames with the music solo.
- Editor Jake Roberts cut a scripted power-disconnect shot and stayed with the Jimmies, while he also moved an instrumental in The Number of the Beast to the end so Kelson could descend.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – ‘a macabre morality tale’
It’s rare for the fourth instalment in a franchise to be the best film in it, said Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. “But that’s how things stand with the chequered ‘28 Days Later’ series.” In this “exciting” chapter – written, like all its predecessors, by Alex Garland – the plot picks up where the last film left off, with Britain long-since overwhelmed by a pandemic that has turned most of its population into zombies.Twelve-year-old survivor Spi…
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Leaning Left9Leaning Right0Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution82% Left
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- 82% of the sources lean Left
82% Left
L 82%
C 18%
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