Playback: Nia DaCosta, Life on the Edge, from LITTLE WOODS to 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE

Nia DaCosta gravitates toward stories -- whether intimate dramas, horror reinventions, literary adaptations, or major franchises -- where her characters are pushed into extreme situations. Across these films, human vulnerability and choice remain central, with complex interior lives sharpening as the stakes escalate outward. "All of my films have to do with people who are on the fringes of society," DaCosta told MovieMaker in 2025. "People on the fringes feel as though they don't have the authority to fully live." On January 16, DaCosta's fifth feature, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), premieres in the United States. This much-anticipated film is the direct follow-up to 28 Years Later (2025), shifting the Rage Virus saga from sheer survival into a darker phase of cult-like power...

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