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Before You Watch The Bone Temple, Catch Up on Who Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal Is in the New 28 Years Later Sequel

  • Last year, 28 Years Later introduced Jimmy and the new film expands him into Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, starring Jack O'Connell with Nia DaCosta directing Alex Garland's script alongside Ralph Fiennes.
  • Contextualizing the villain, filmmakers draw on the real-world figure Jimmy Savile to shape Jimmy Crystal, explicitly repurposing Savile's public persona and iconography after his abuses emerged post-2011.
  • Donned in blond wigs and tracksuits, the cult stages acrobatic killings and leaves 'Jimmy' carved on victims; every member of The Jimmys is named after Savile, terrorizing England.
  • Ralph Fiennes' Dr. Ian Kelson tries to commune with the infected even as survivors face Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal's deadly cult, framing a probe of masculinity through Spike's struggle.
  • Amid recurring franchise themes of frozen civilisation, The Bone Temple frames a psychological freeze where past celebrity culture is repurposed into violent mythologies, while the Rage virus outbreak predates public revelations about Jimmy Savile.
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung broke the news in Zürich, Switzerland on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
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