{
  "id": "28-days-later",
  "title": "28 Days / Weeks / Years Later",
  "description": "The Rage outbreak across four released films, published screenplays, The Aftermath’s four chapters and animated adaptations, Selena’s 24-issue comic journey, five commissioned shorts and RageLeaks. A day / week / year outbreak clock keeps fictional time distinct from release dates.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "rage",
      "label": "Rage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology",
      "note": "One screen history from the initial outbreak to The Bone Temple. Official comics and commissioned shorts stay visible alongside the films. BOOM’s reported fate for Jim conflicts with the later screen continuation, so that licensed run has a disputed-canon label and can be filtered out; it is not split into twenty-four universes."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "development",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 1: Development",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Pre-outbreak era, culminating around Day 0",
      "order": -1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Experiments intended to control aggression lead toward catastrophe.",
      "note": "Distinct origin chapter, not all four chapters placed after the first film. Exact duration of the research programme remains unverified from legal interiors.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aftermath",
        "aftermath-review",
        "aftermath-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Pre-outbreak era → Day 0",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061236764",
      "productName": "28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novel",
      "productMatch": "Actual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "development"
    },
    {
      "id": "development-motion",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 1: Development, animated adaptation",
      "type": "Motion comic",
      "date": "Pre-outbreak era → Day 0",
      "order": -1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A motion-comic version presents the same origin story.",
      "note": "Same-story adaptation grouped with the printed chapter. Corresponding Weeks Blu-ray is the nearest containing screen edition; not an invented standalone feature.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "animated",
        "aftermath"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Pre-outbreak era → Day 0",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VE4380",
      "productName": "28 Weeks Later — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Older release may be used or out of print. Two animated chapters are reported for this home-video release; confirm selected seller / edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "development"
    },
    {
      "id": "lab",
      "title": "28 Days Later — laboratory outbreak",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Day 0",
      "order": 0,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2002",
      "description": "A laboratory break-in releases the infection.",
      "note": "Optional opening scene anchors this guide’s relative clock. Day 0 is a normalized chronology label, not a claimed Gregorian title card.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "days",
        "days-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Day 0",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXQG8Y93",
      "productName": "28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBook",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding 2026 Sony home edition surfaced in current release records. Not asserted to include the 2002 mini-comic or all older DVD supplements; confirm seller / extras.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "lab",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "jimmy",
      "title": "28 Years Later — Jimmy’s childhood prologue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "Initial outbreak; est. first days / weeks, Day 0–28",
      "order": 0.2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "A child escapes the collapse around his family home.",
      "note": "Opening belongs to the original outbreak, not twenty-eight years after the island story. Precise day relative to the laboratory scene was not established.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "years",
        "years-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 0–28",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCY5H1HL",
      "productName": "28 Years Later — Blu-ray + Digital",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Digital redemption, region and stock are not guaranteed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "jimmy",
      "container": true,
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "outbreak",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 2: Outbreak",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Day 1 onward; initial outbreak days",
      "order": 1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A family’s ordinary outing becomes a struggle for survival.",
      "note": "Chapter starts the day after the laboratory release, supported by the indexed opening text and story reference. Later scenes span additional days; no exact end date claimed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aftermath",
        "aftermath-index",
        "aftermath-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Day 1+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061236764",
      "productName": "28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novel",
      "productMatch": "Actual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "outbreak"
    },
    {
      "id": "cottage",
      "title": "28 Weeks Later — cottage opening",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. Day 1–28; first-outbreak hiding period",
      "order": 2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Don and Alice shelter with other survivors before the occupation.",
      "note": "Optional early sequence. It is not the movie’s main twenty-eight-week date; no exact cottage calendar prop inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "weeks-clock",
        "weeks"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 1–28",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VE4380",
      "productName": "28 Weeks Later — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Older release may be used or out of print. Two animated chapters are reported for this home-video release; confirm selected seller / edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "cottage",
      "container": true,
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rage-short",
      "title": "Rage / Jealous Rage — commissioned short",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. first outbreak days / weeks; Day 1–28",
      "order": 5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "An intimate encounter turns dangerous during the outbreak.",
      "note": "One of the producer-approved five. Shared outbreak setting supports this working early placement; full dialogue / frame audit not completed, so exact day remains estimated. Promotion was its release purpose, not proof of being unrelated fan fiction.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 1–28",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://vimeo.com/127025367",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Exact Rage player embedded by its director. No verified standalone Amazon edition; creator-hosted viewing offered.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "rage-short",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "light-short",
      "title": "Light ’Em Up / The End Is Extremely F*cking Nigh",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. initial outbreak era; first days / weeks",
      "order": 6,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A survivor faces the violence of a collapsing city.",
      "note": "Alternate titles identify one commissioned narrative, not two shorts. Placed in the first-outbreak window; exact interleaving with Rage and the cottage scene remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Era unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://vimeo.com/130865098",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Exact Light ’Em Up player from the director’s portfolio; no unrelated product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "light-short",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "77-days",
      "title": "77 Days Later — commissioned short",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. Day 1–77; diary across the first outbreak’s early months",
      "order": 7,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "An isolated survivor records the ordeal from a rooftop.",
      "note": "Title’s seventy-seven-day clock and diary context support a span, not a Day 77-only adventure. Exact starting caption and final-day alignment await full film inspection. This overlaps the first feature and its aftermath.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 1–77",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://vimeo.com/120238440",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Director-hosted exact 77 Days Later film, available through the official portfolio player.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "77-days",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "days-film",
      "title": "28 Days Later — Jim’s main story",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "Day 28 onward; initial outbreak",
      "order": 28,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2002",
      "description": "Jim awakens to an emptied London and joins other survivors.",
      "note": "Four-week hospital wake-up supplies the clock. The road journey continues across subsequent days; the whole film is not compressed into one literal day.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "days",
        "days-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Day 28+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXQG8Y93",
      "productName": "28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBook",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding 2026 Sony home edition surfaced in current release records. Not asserted to include the 2002 mini-comic or all older DVD supplements; confirm seller / extras.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "days"
    },
    {
      "id": "days-script",
      "title": "28 Days Later — published screenplay",
      "type": "Screenplay",
      "date": "Day 28 onward, with Day 0 opening / later coda",
      "order": 28,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2002",
      "description": "Alex Garland’s screenplay presents the first film’s story in print.",
      "note": "Same source-story position as the film. Script variants / unused ideas do not become additional confirmed events merely because a screenplay was published.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "script1",
        "days"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "Day 28+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0571216536",
      "productName": "28 Days Later — Faber screenplay",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding Amazon title read. This is the published screenplay, not a prose novelization.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "days"
    },
    {
      "id": "decimation",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 3: Decimation",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Around one month after outbreak; est. Day 28–38",
      "order": 30,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A lone survivor faces an armed human threat in deserted London.",
      "note": "A separate chapter near the first feature’s period. One-month summary is approximate; no full legal caption sequence acquired. Not automatically placed at the 2007 publication date.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aftermath",
        "aftermath-review",
        "aftermath-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 28–38",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061236764",
      "productName": "28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novel",
      "productMatch": "Actual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "decimation",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "decimation-motion",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 3: Decimation, animated adaptation",
      "type": "Motion comic",
      "date": "Around one month after outbreak; est. Day 28–38",
      "order": 30,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "The printed survivor vignette is presented as a narrated motion comic.",
      "note": "Same story position as the comic and its included script; not an extra sequel after Quarantine.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "animated",
        "aftermath"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 28–38",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VE4380",
      "productName": "28 Weeks Later — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Older release may be used or out of print. Two animated chapters are reported for this home-video release; confirm selected seller / edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "decimation",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "quarantine",
      "title": "The Aftermath — Stage 4: Quarantine",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. Day 38–60; early occupation / refugee-camp period",
      "order": 40,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Survivors of the earlier chapters converge under military control.",
      "note": "A reported printed Day 38–42 range and a two-month summary conflict. Retain the broad supported early-month window pending direct legal page inspection; neither the reader report nor database summary is presented as a verified exact caption.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aftermath",
        "aftermath-clock",
        "quarantine-clue"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 38–60",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061236764",
      "productName": "28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novel",
      "productMatch": "Actual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "quarantine",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "days-epilogue",
      "title": "28 Days Later — rescue epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "28 days after escape; est. Day 56–62",
      "order": 59,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2002",
      "description": "The survivors try to signal a passing aircraft.",
      "note": "Optional substantial time jump. The stated extra twenty-eight days is firmer than this computed day-number range because the road journey’s complete day count was not checked.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "days-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. Day 56–62 · +28 days",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXQG8Y93",
      "productName": "28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBook",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding 2026 Sony home edition surfaced in current release records. Not asserted to include the 2002 mini-comic or all older DVD supplements; confirm seller / extras.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "days-epilogue",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "boom-run",
      "title": "28 Days Later — BOOM comic series #1–24",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. months 2–8 after outbreak; later issues parallel 28 Weeks Later",
      "order": 60,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2009–2011; 2014 omnibus",
      "description": "Selena guides a reporting expedition back through quarantined Britain.",
      "note": "Continuous journey grouped as a complete run: London Calling #1–4; Bend in the Road #5–8; Hot Zone #9–12; Gangwar #13–16; Ghost Town #17–20; Homecoming #21–24. Final three issues overlap Weeks and its coda. Jim’s reported fate conflicts with the later film, so integration is disputed; licensing / outside authorship alone would not make it non-canon.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "omnibus",
        "comic-clock",
        "comic-preview",
        "comic-solicit",
        "jim"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. 2–8 months",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Publisher and issue inventory checked. Creator preview image links broken; Newsarama preview redirects. No complete 24-issue interior / flashback date audit claimed.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608863867",
      "productName": "28 Days Later Omnibus — BOOM #1–24",
      "productMatch": "Actual Amazon title checked against publisher ISBN 9781608863860. Contains the 24-issue Selena series, not The Aftermath. Seller condition / price / stock not promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "boom-run",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "weeks-film",
      "title": "28 Weeks Later — repopulation & second outbreak",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "28 weeks after the initial outbreak; subsequent days",
      "order": 196,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A family reunion undermines the occupied safe zone in London.",
      "note": "Uses the film’s elapsed outbreak clock. The brief cottage opening belongs much earlier and can be shown separately. Six-month marketing wording is rounded / inconsistent and not used to create a separate chronology.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "weeks",
        "weeks-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "28 weeks · Day 196+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VE4380",
      "productName": "28 Weeks Later — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Older release may be used or out of print. Two animated chapters are reported for this home-video release; confirm selected seller / edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "weeks-film"
    },
    {
      "id": "welcome-short",
      "title": "Welcome to London — commissioned short",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. 28 weeks; second-outbreak / Code Red period",
      "order": 196.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A person on the ground encounters the occupation’s emergency.",
      "note": "Creator confirms filming on the feature’s set. Code Red context supports placement alongside the second film, not at the first London evacuation. Complete dialogue / every clock display not inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context",
        "weeks-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. 28 weeks",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://vimeo.com/120233662",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Exact creator-hosted Welcome to London film. No standalone Amazon product verified.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "welcome-short",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "28-seconds",
      "title": "28 Seconds Later… — commissioned short",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. 28–32 weeks; military response to the renewed outbreak",
      "order": 197,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A soldier becomes vulnerable to the infection during containment operations.",
      "note": "The title describes rapid infection rather than placing the short twenty-eight seconds after the original lab scene. Military context gives a best-fit second-outbreak window; exact position against Weeks’ final escape remains provisional.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. 28–32 weeks",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://vimeo.com/120236449",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Exact director-hosted short from the verified commissioned set. Not the unrelated 2016 Chump story or other same-name fan films.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "28-seconds",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "paris",
      "title": "28 Weeks Later — Paris coda",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "28 days after the renewed outbreak; est. week 32",
      "order": 224,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "The infection reaches continental Europe.",
      "note": "Optional later scene; twenty-eight-day title cue distinguishes it from the movie’s initial twenty-eight-week date. Europe’s later containment is compatible with Years rather than evidence for another universe.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "weeks-clock",
        "years-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "est. 32 weeks · +28 days",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VE4380",
      "productName": "28 Weeks Later — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Older release may be used or out of print. Two animated chapters are reported for this home-video release; confirm selected seller / edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "paris",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "rageleaks",
      "title": "RageLeaks — official documents, audio & web story",
      "type": "ARG / web fiction",
      "date": "Year 28 framing; archived reports recall the outbreak onward",
      "order": 10226,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2025–2026 campaign",
      "description": "Fictional intelligence reports and transmissions expand quarantined Britain’s history.",
      "note": "Creator confirms all in-fiction content and the campaign’s continuation toward Bone Temple. Kept near the two Year 28 films, with earlier documents identified as recollections. Full changing archive / every timestamp not recovered; not mapped to the real upload dates.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "rageleaks",
        "campaign"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "28 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://rageleaks.net/",
      "productName": "Explore official story archive",
      "productMatch": "Original Sony campaign destination confirmed by its writer / studio campaign record. Access or archival availability may vary; no commercial fan book substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Explore official story archive",
      "storyGroup": "rageleaks",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "years-film",
      "title": "28 Years Later — Spike’s island & mainland story",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "28 years after the original Rage outbreak",
      "order": 10227,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Spike ventures from an island settlement into a changed mainland.",
      "note": "The years are measured from the initial outbreak. No unsupported 2030 / 2053 exact year is generated from release dates. Jimmy’s childhood opening belongs to the original outbreak and can be shown separately.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "years",
        "years-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "28 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCY5H1HL",
      "productName": "28 Years Later — Blu-ray + Digital",
      "productMatch": "Exact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Digital redemption, region and stock are not guaranteed.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "years"
    },
    {
      "id": "years-script",
      "title": "28 Years Later — published screenplay",
      "type": "Screenplay",
      "date": "Year 28 main story; initial-outbreak prologue",
      "order": 10227,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Alex Garland’s printed screenplay follows Spike’s journey.",
      "note": "Same narrative position as its film. Screenplay publication is verified; no separate licensed prose novelization is invented.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "script3",
        "years"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "28 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0571398634",
      "productName": "28 Years Later: The Screenplay — Faber paperback",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title read, matched to publisher-distributor ISBN 9780571398638. Not a Bone Temple novel.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "years"
    },
    {
      "id": "bone-film",
      "title": "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "Year 28; immediately after Spike’s preceding journey",
      "order": 10228,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Spike’s new company and Kelson’s discoveries reshape the crisis.",
      "note": "Official studio says this is a direct, immediate continuation. Same outbreak year as 28 Years Later, not another twenty-eight years later and not automatically the real-world 2026 release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bone",
        "bone-stream"
      ],
      "continuity": "rage",
      "railLabel": "28 years · subsequent days",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGR9S8LF",
      "productName": "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — Blu-ray + Digital",
      "productMatch": "Actual corresponding Amazon title read directly, without our tracking query. Fourth film, not a collection of all four.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "bone-film"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "days",
      "title": "Searchlight — 28 Days Later",
      "url": "https://www.searchlightpictures.com/28dayslater",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official four-weeks-after-outbreak premise and film record. Day zero is this guide’s relative origin, not a claimed date printed in the film."
    },
    {
      "id": "weeks",
      "title": "20th Century — 28 Weeks Later",
      "url": "https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/28-weeks-later",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official sequel / release record. Its short synopsis loosely says six months after Britain was declared safe; the film’s 28-week story clock is retained rather than deriving a second exact year from that marketing sentence."
    },
    {
      "id": "years",
      "title": "Sony — 28 Years Later",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.co.uk/movies/28-years-later",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official 28-year continuation, island survivors and enforced quarantine. The 2025 release is not a fictional 2025 date."
    },
    {
      "id": "bone",
      "title": "Sony — expanding the franchise / The Bone Temple",
      "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/28yearslaterthebonetemple/expanding-the-28-years-later-franchise",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Studio identifies a direct sequel unfolding immediately after 28 Years Later. No additional 28-year gap added because the sequel repeats the title."
    },
    {
      "id": "bone-stream",
      "title": "Netflix — The Bone Temple official streaming guide",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/28-years-later-the-bone-temple-release-date-news",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current 2026 film availability / narrative description; provides a recent screen-interest angle for Halloween-season reading, not an unsupported claim about trending traffic."
    },
    {
      "id": "days-clock",
      "title": "28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later",
      "kind": "Secondary / film reference",
      "note": "Opening laboratory release, 28-day hospital wake-up and later 28-days-later epilogue. Complete frame / calendar-prop audit not performed."
    },
    {
      "id": "weeks-clock",
      "title": "28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Weeks_Later",
      "kind": "Secondary / film reference",
      "note": "Main repopulation after 28 weeks; Paris coda 28 days after the second outbreak. Earlier cottage scene belongs to the initial outbreak."
    },
    {
      "id": "years-clock",
      "title": "28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later",
      "kind": "Secondary / film reference",
      "note": "Jimmy’s childhood at the initial outbreak, then the island story twenty-eight years later. Continental containment after the second film does not require a separate universe."
    },
    {
      "id": "aftermath",
      "title": "Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue",
      "url": "https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5747684W/28_Days_Later",
      "kind": "Library bibliography / legal preview access",
      "note": "Steve Niles, Fox Atomic / Harper, 2007, ISBN 9780061236761. Four-story original graphic novel; catalogue lists a preview but full readable interior was not obtained."
    },
    {
      "id": "aftermath-review",
      "title": "Publishers Weekly — direct graphic-novel review",
      "url": "https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780061236761",
      "kind": "Contemporary professional book review",
      "note": "Contemporary reviewed copy confirms chapter names / creators and the original containing edition. Does not certify every date caption."
    },
    {
      "id": "aftermath-index",
      "title": "GCD — Aftermath chapter index",
      "url": "https://www.comics.org/issue/771180/",
      "kind": "Independent comics bibliography",
      "note": "Issue / story bibliography includes the Stage 2 opening text One day later and the original Stage 3 script. Live fetch later returned 403; no false claim that all scanned pages were inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "aftermath-clock",
      "title": "The Aftermath — chapter chronology reference",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later:_The_Aftermath",
      "kind": "Secondary / story reference",
      "note": "Development precedes outbreak; Outbreak starts the following day; Decimation around one month; Quarantine later. Its two-month summary is less precise than reported 38–42-day captions; keep a qualified interval pending direct interior verification."
    },
    {
      "id": "quarantine-clue",
      "title": "Reported Quarantine interior date — verification lead",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/28dayslater/comments/1ih8dew/",
      "kind": "Unverified interior-date lead",
      "note": "Reader reports a printed 38–42-days-later range. This is a lead, not primary evidence: it is explicitly not promoted to an exact fact without a legal page inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "omnibus",
      "title": "BOOM / Simon & Schuster — 28 Days Later Omnibus",
      "url": "https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/28-Days-Later-Omnibus/Michael-Alan-Nelson/28-Days-Later/9781608863860",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official 544-page containing edition, March 2014, Michael Alan Nelson / Declan Shalvey. Selena’s return journey continues the films; licensing alone is not a non-canon ruling."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-clock",
      "title": "BOOM series — issue / collected-edition chronology",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later_(comics)",
      "kind": "Secondary / comics bibliography",
      "note": "Complete #1–24 inventory and six collected volumes; starts about two months after outbreak and last three issues parallel the second film through the Paris spread. Reported four-month-after-first-film wording is not silently treated as equivalent."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-preview",
      "title": "Declan Shalvey — #1 preview / process pages",
      "url": "https://dshalv.blogspot.com/2009/08/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator posts original opening-page art / process and links the 10-page Newsarama preview. Original image links failed / appeared broken, and Newsarama link now redirects to its homepage. No date-caption inspection claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-solicit",
      "title": "BOOM July 2009 solicitation supplied to ComicList",
      "url": "https://gocollect.com/blog/boom-studios-july-2009-solicitations",
      "kind": "Publisher solicitation reproduced by comics press",
      "note": "Contemporary publisher solicitation describes a bridge between films and mentions Alex Garland. This is stronger than the unsupported claim that no creative was involved because a third party published it."
    },
    {
      "id": "jim",
      "title": "The Bone Temple — Jim ending cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later:_The_Bone_Temple",
      "kind": "Secondary / film reference",
      "note": "Later screen return of Jim conflicts with a reported execution implication in the BOOM run. Conflict concerns integration of that detail, not whether the comic was officially licensed."
    },
    {
      "id": "shorts",
      "title": "Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio",
      "url": "https://www.philstoole.com/work/28-weeks-later",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Filmmaker explicitly confirms producer / Fox funding and approval, five standalone in-world stories bridging up to / into Weeks. Embedded creator-hosted Vimeo players identified for every title."
    },
    {
      "id": "cv",
      "title": "Phil Stoole — original production CV",
      "url": "https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60590005afaed96efdffcc0d/t/6435bdd94b9bac4c3d825d58/1681243610295/PHIL%2BSTOOLE%2BCV2023.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Lists 28 Seconds Later, Light ’Em Up, 77 Days Later, Jealous Rage and Welcome to London as five 2006–2007 productions. Alternate names do not create sixth / seventh films."
    },
    {
      "id": "shorts-context",
      "title": "Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/28dayslater/comments/1hajah3/",
      "kind": "Secondary fan inventory / leads, not canon authority",
      "note": "Lead for alternate titles, 77 Days diary, Code Red short and possible sixth film. Canon opinions in this post are NOT treated as a studio ruling. Primary creator portfolio establishes the verified five."
    },
    {
      "id": "animated",
      "title": "28 Weeks Later — inspected-disc review / animated features",
      "url": "https://dvdizzy.com/28weekslater.html",
      "kind": "Secondary / direct home-video review",
      "note": "Contemporary disc review identifies two motion-comic adaptations: Stage 1 Development (7:35), Stage 3 Decimation (4:45). Stages 2 and 4 were not reported as animated extras."
    },
    {
      "id": "script1",
      "title": "28 Days Later — published Faber screenplay edition",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0571216536",
      "kind": "Official retail edition / direct listing check",
      "note": "Exact Faber screenplay title checked on Amazon. A screenplay book, not a newly written prose sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "script3",
      "title": "Faber / Raincoast — 28 Years Later screenplay",
      "url": "https://www.raincoastgroup.com/item/9780571398638",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher-distributor confirms Alex Garland’s 112-page published screenplay, 2025. Matching Amazon title checked separately."
    },
    {
      "id": "rageleaks",
      "title": "Jay Bushman — RageLeaks creator / writer portfolio",
      "url": "https://jaybushman.com/work/28-years-later",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator confirms Sony commissioned the ARG, fictional documents, secret sites and discovery trail; campaign continued toward The Bone Temple. Not a fan-created news site."
    },
    {
      "id": "campaign",
      "title": "Sony campaign submission — Clio Entertainment",
      "url": "https://clios.com/winners-gallery/details/199619",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Studio campaign account confirms RageLeaks as an in-world intelligence site with recurring lore additions. Promotional mechanics / screenings are not separate fictional years."
    },
    {
      "id": "mini",
      "title": "Original 28 Days Later promotional comic — collector inventory",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/28dayslater/comments/1ezohmj/",
      "kind": "Collector lead / unverified interior",
      "note": "Lead for a separate fourteen-panel 2002 comic, including some soundtrack editions. No primary complete booklet or exact current containing edition acquired; recorded below as an outstanding omission candidate."
    },
    {
      "id": "products",
      "title": "Amazon — exact inspected products",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061236764",
      "kind": "Official retail / product checks",
      "note": "The Aftermath, Omnibus (1608863867), both Faber scripts and Bone Temple Blu-ray titles checked directly. Additional film products surfaced in current Amazon search; no stock / extras guarantee."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Original 2002 promotional mini-comic / 2007 promotional booklet",
      "type": "Promotional comics",
      "status": "Known collector leads; interior / edition verification outstanding",
      "note": "A separate fourteen-panel original-film promo and a Weeks promo are reported. Full legal originals, creator credits and exact containing products were not acquired. Some 2007 DVD inserts are Aftermath extracts; avoid counting an extract as another complete story or promising it with a generic Blu-ray.",
      "sources": [
        "mini",
        "aftermath",
        "shorts-context"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Saturday Afternoon — possible sixth promotional short",
      "type": "Short film",
      "status": "Official commission not verified",
      "note": "Circulates in fan inventories, but the primary director portfolio and production CV identify five commissioned films. No current creator-hosted sixth entry / rights confirmation located; not silently declared either canonical or an official sixth release.",
      "sources": [
        "shorts",
        "cv",
        "shorts-context"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "28 Years Later — further sequel / abandoned 28 Months Later concepts",
      "type": "Film / script",
      "status": "Unreleased development material",
      "note": "The continuation has been discussed by the filmmakers; no completed fifth film / verified story span added. Abandoned concepts and unproduced treatments are not released installments.",
      "sources": [
        "years-clock",
        "bone"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Alternate endings, deleted scenes and original storyboards",
      "type": "Film supplements",
      "status": "Containing-film variants",
      "note": "Older discs include non-theatrical material. Such versions do not become additional canonical outcomes; exact edition supplements were not fully inspected. Two released animated Aftermath stories are separately indexed at their comic positions.",
      "sources": [
        "animated",
        "days-clock"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Games, novels, audio dramas, soundtrack albums and similarly titled films",
      "type": "Other media",
      "status": "No additional licensed original story verified",
      "note": "No standalone licensed story game / prose novelization / audio drama verified in this audit. Published screenplays, motion-comic audio and ARG transmissions are included. Score albums without a verified narrative insert and unrelated 28 Days / fan films are not added merely for matching names.",
      "sources": [
        "script1",
        "script3",
        "rageleaks",
        "mini"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-20",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Inventoried all four released features, both verified published screenplays, the four distinct Aftermath chapters, their two known motion-comic adaptations, complete BOOM #1–24 run, five creator-verified shorts and the studio ARG.",
      "Grouped the 24-issue continuous journey / six trades, and grouped same-story print / motion / screenplay formats. Broad spanning stories explicitly overlap rather than claiming a false day-by-day interleaving.",
      "Five creator-commissioned shorts distinguished from alternate titles and an unverified sixth-short lead. Creator-hosted viewing destinations recovered for every verified short.",
      "Separated cottage / laboratory / Jimmy openings and later rescue / Paris codas as optional time-jump records. Relative outbreak clock avoids equating release years with setting.",
      "Cross-checked Quarantine’s reported 38–42-day caption against a two-month summary; exact primary interior verification remains open and the public date is estimated.",
      "Preserved inclusive licensed comics with disputed integration because of the Jim conflict; did not adopt a Reddit canon hierarchy or say third-party publication alone makes a work non-canon."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "The Aftermath full legal interior was not acquired: catalogue preview located, GCD later blocked, creator’s BOOM art images broken and Newsarama preview retired. Reported printed captions must still be inspected; they are not declared absent.",
      "Full shorts, every film frame / prop date and all 24 comic interiors not audited. Some working day / month ranges rely on qualified secondary context; precise interleaving can be refined.",
      "Original 2002 / 2007 promo comics and possible Saturday Afternoon commission remain explicit verification leads, not claimed completed inventory. No equivalent current exact Amazon booklet product verified.",
      "ARG historical documents / recordings and post-release updates have not been exhaustively archived. Dynamic dates and public campaign release times are not automatically fictional calendar dates."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}