Universes/28 Days / Weeks / Years Later/Research

PRE-BUILD INVENTORY · OCTOBER 20, 2026

The dates.
The evidence.

28 Days / Weeks / Years Later: research table, product / access matches and inspection gaps.

VERIFICATION STATUS

Broad coverage.
Open questions.

24 catalogue records; 19 indexed works. Shared branch points, embedded scenes and anthology containers are distinguished.

A research edition, not a completed full-interior audit. A missing date remains an inspection gap until the actual work has been checked.

Inventory / contradiction 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.

Verification still required

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ARG historical documents / recordings and post-release updates have not been exhaustively archived.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.

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Entry	Media / release	Story date	Canon / continuity	Placement / inspection	Sources	Edition / viewing match
The Aftermath — Stage 1: DevelopmentExperiments intended to control aggression lead toward catastrophe.	ComicReleased 2007	Pre-outbreak era, culminating around Day 0Relative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Distinct origin chapter, not all four chapters placed after the first film. Exact duration of the research programme remains unverified from legal interiors.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue Publishers Weekly — direct graphic-novel review The Aftermath — chapter chronology reference	28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novelActual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.
The Aftermath — Stage 1: Development, animated adaptationA motion-comic version presents the same origin story.	Motion comicReleased 2007	Pre-outbreak era → Day 0Relative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Same-story adaptation grouped with the printed chapter. Corresponding Weeks Blu-ray is the nearest containing screen edition; not an invented standalone feature.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Weeks Later — inspected-disc review / animated features Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue	28 Weeks Later — Blu-rayExact 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.
28 Days Later — laboratory outbreakA laboratory break-in releases the infection. · Embedded segment	Film segmentReleased 2002	Day 0Relative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Optional opening scene anchors this guide’s relative clock. Day 0 is a normalized chronology label, not a claimed Gregorian title card.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Searchlight — 28 Days Later 28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check	28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBookCorresponding 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.
28 Years Later — Jimmy’s childhood prologueA child escapes the collapse around his family home. · Embedded segment	Film segmentReleased 2025	Initial outbreak; est. first days / weeks, Day 0–28Era known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Opening belongs to the original outbreak, not twenty-eight years after the island story. Precise day relative to the laboratory scene was not established.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Sony — 28 Years Later 28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check	28 Years Later — Blu-ray + DigitalExact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Digital redemption, region and stock are not guaranteed.
The Aftermath — Stage 2: OutbreakA family’s ordinary outing becomes a struggle for survival.	ComicReleased 2007	Day 1 onward; initial outbreak daysRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue GCD — Aftermath chapter index The Aftermath — chapter chronology reference	28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novelActual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.
28 Weeks Later — cottage openingDon and Alice shelter with other survivors before the occupation. · Embedded segment	Film segmentReleased 2007	est. Day 1–28; first-outbreak hiding periodEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Optional early sequence. It is not the movie’s main twenty-eight-week date; no exact cottage calendar prop inspected.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda 20th Century — 28 Weeks Later	28 Weeks Later — Blu-rayExact 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.
Rage / Jealous Rage — commissioned shortAn intimate encounter turns dangerous during the outbreak.	Short filmReleased 2007	est. first outbreak days / weeks; Day 1–28Era known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check	Watch filmmaker’s shortExact Rage player embedded by its director. No verified standalone Amazon edition; creator-hosted viewing offered.
Light ’Em Up / The End Is Extremely F*cking NighA survivor faces the violence of a collapsing city.	Short filmReleased 2007	est. initial outbreak era; first days / weeksEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check	Watch filmmaker’s shortExact Light ’Em Up player from the director’s portfolio; no unrelated product substituted.
77 Days Later — commissioned shortAn isolated survivor records the ordeal from a rooftop.	Short filmReleased 2007	est. Day 1–77; diary across the first outbreak’s early monthsEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check	Watch filmmaker’s shortDirector-hosted exact 77 Days Later film, available through the official portfolio player.
28 Days Later — Jim’s main storyJim awakens to an emptied London and joins other survivors.	FilmReleased 2002	Day 28 onward; initial outbreakRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Searchlight — 28 Days Later 28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check	28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBookCorresponding 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.
28 Days Later — published screenplayAlex Garland’s screenplay presents the first film’s story in print.	ScreenplayReleased 2002	Day 28 onward, with Day 0 opening / later codaRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Same source-story position as the film. Script variants / unused ideas do not become additional confirmed events merely because a screenplay was published.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Days Later — published Faber screenplay edition Searchlight — 28 Days Later	28 Days Later — Faber screenplayExact corresponding Amazon title read. This is the published screenplay, not a prose novelization.
The Aftermath — Stage 3: DecimationA lone survivor faces an armed human threat in deserted London.	ComicReleased 2007	Around one month after outbreak; est. Day 28–38Era known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue Publishers Weekly — direct graphic-novel review The Aftermath — chapter chronology reference	28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novelActual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.
The Aftermath — Stage 3: Decimation, animated adaptationThe printed survivor vignette is presented as a narrated motion comic.	Motion comicReleased 2007	Around one month after outbreak; est. Day 28–38Era known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Same story position as the comic and its included script; not an extra sequel after Quarantine.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Weeks Later — inspected-disc review / animated features Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue	28 Weeks Later — Blu-rayExact 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.
The Aftermath — Stage 4: QuarantineSurvivors of the earlier chapters converge under military control.	ComicReleased 2007	est. Day 38–60; early occupation / refugee-camp periodEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue The Aftermath — chapter chronology reference Reported Quarantine interior date — verification lead	28 Days Later: The Aftermath — graphic novelActual Amazon title checked; ISBN 9780061236761. Contains all four chapters and Stage 3 script. Not the later BOOM omnibus.
28 Days Later — rescue epilogueThe survivors try to signal a passing aircraft. · Embedded segment	Film segmentReleased 2002	28 days after escape; est. Day 56–62Evidence-based estimate	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check	28 Days Later — 4K UHD + Digital SteelBookCorresponding 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.
28 Days Later — BOOM comic series #1–24Selena guides a reporting expedition back through quarantined Britain.	ComicReleased 2009–2011; 2014 omnibus	est. months 2–8 after outbreak; later issues parallel 28 Weeks LaterEra known; exact sequence open	Disputed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Publisher and issue inventory checked. Creator preview image links broken; Newsarama preview redirects. No complete 24-issue interior / flashback date audit claimed.	BOOM / Simon & Schuster — 28 Days Later Omnibus BOOM series — issue / collected-edition chronology Declan Shalvey — #1 preview / process pages BOOM July 2009 solicitation supplied to ComicList The Bone Temple — Jim ending cross-check	28 Days Later Omnibus — BOOM #1–24Actual Amazon title checked against publisher ISBN 9781608863860. Contains the 24-issue Selena series, not The Aftermath. Seller condition / price / stock not promised.
28 Weeks Later — repopulation & second outbreakA family reunion undermines the occupied safe zone in London.	FilmReleased 2007	28 weeks after the initial outbreak; subsequent daysRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	20th Century — 28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda	28 Weeks Later — Blu-rayExact 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.
Welcome to London — commissioned shortA person on the ground encounters the occupation’s emergency.	Short filmReleased 2007	est. 28 weeks; second-outbreak / Code Red periodEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check 28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda	Watch filmmaker’s shortExact creator-hosted Welcome to London film. No standalone Amazon product verified.
28 Seconds Later… — commissioned shortA soldier becomes vulnerable to the infection during containment operations.	Short filmReleased 2007	est. 28–32 weeks; military response to the renewed outbreakEra known; exact sequence open	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check	Watch filmmaker’s shortExact director-hosted short from the verified commissioned set. Not the unrelated 2016 Chump story or other same-name fan films.
28 Weeks Later — Paris codaThe infection reaches continental Europe. · Embedded segment	Film segmentReleased 2007	28 days after the renewed outbreak; est. week 32Evidence-based estimate	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda 28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check	28 Weeks Later — Blu-rayExact 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.
RageLeaks — official documents, audio & web storyFictional intelligence reports and transmissions expand quarantined Britain’s history.	ARG / web fictionReleased 2025–2026 campaign	Year 28 framing; archived reports recall the outbreak onwardEra known; exact sequence open	Promotional onlyRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Jay Bushman — RageLeaks creator / writer portfolio Sony campaign submission — Clio Entertainment	Explore official story archiveOriginal Sony campaign destination confirmed by its writer / studio campaign record. Access or archival availability may vary; no commercial fan book substituted.
28 Years Later — Spike’s island & mainland storySpike ventures from an island settlement into a changed mainland.	FilmReleased 2025	28 years after the original Rage outbreakRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Sony — 28 Years Later 28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check	28 Years Later — Blu-ray + DigitalExact film / format surfaced in current Amazon search. Digital redemption, region and stock are not guaranteed.
28 Years Later — published screenplayAlex Garland’s printed screenplay follows Spike’s journey.	ScreenplayReleased 2025	Year 28 main story; initial-outbreak prologueRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	Same narrative position as its film. Screenplay publication is verified; no separate licensed prose novelization is invented.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Faber / Raincoast — 28 Years Later screenplay Sony — 28 Years Later	28 Years Later: The Screenplay — Faber paperbackExact Amazon title read, matched to publisher-distributor ISBN 9780571398638. Not a Bone Temple novel.
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleSpike’s new company and Kelson’s discoveries reshape the crisis.	FilmReleased 2026	Year 28; immediately after Spike’s preceding journeyRelative / stated chronology	Confirmed canonRage outbreak — inclusive franchise chronology	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.Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected	Sony — expanding the franchise / The Bone Temple Netflix — The Bone Temple official streaming guide	28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — Blu-ray + DigitalActual corresponding Amazon title read directly, without our tracking query. Fourth film, not a collection of all four.

COVERAGE BOUNDARIES

Checked beyond the main stories

Promotional comics

Original 2002 promotional mini-comic / 2007 promotional booklet

Known collector leads; interior / edition verification outstanding

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.

Original 28 Days Later promotional comic — collector inventory Open Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check

Short film

Saturday Afternoon — possible sixth promotional short

Official commission not verified

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.

Phil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio Phil Stoole — original production CV Commissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check

Film / script

28 Years Later — further sequel / abandoned 28 Months Later concepts

Unreleased development material

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.

28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check Sony — expanding the franchise / The Bone Temple

Film supplements

Alternate endings, deleted scenes and original storyboards

Containing-film variants

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.

28 Weeks Later — inspected-disc review / animated features 28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check

Other media

Games, novels, audio dramas, soundtrack albums and similarly titled films

No additional licensed original story verified

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.

28 Days Later — published Faber screenplay edition Faber / Raincoast — 28 Years Later screenplay Jay Bushman — RageLeaks creator / writer portfolio Original 28 Days Later promotional comic — collector inventory

SOURCE REGISTER

Primary sources first.

PrimarySearchlight — 28 Days Later
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.
Primary20th Century — 28 Weeks Later
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.
PrimarySony — 28 Years Later
Official 28-year continuation, island survivors and enforced quarantine. The 2025 release is not a fictional 2025 date.
PrimarySony — expanding the franchise / The Bone Temple
Studio identifies a direct sequel unfolding immediately after 28 Years Later. No additional 28-year gap added because the sequel repeats the title.
PrimaryNetflix — The Bone Temple official streaming guide
Current 2026 film availability / narrative description; provides a recent screen-interest angle for Halloween-season reading, not an unsupported claim about trending traffic.
Secondary / film reference28 Days Later — scenes / epilogue cross-check
Opening laboratory release, 28-day hospital wake-up and later 28-days-later epilogue. Complete frame / calendar-prop audit not performed.
Secondary / film reference28 Weeks Later — relative timeline / Paris coda
Main repopulation after 28 weeks; Paris coda 28 days after the second outbreak. Earlier cottage scene belongs to the initial outbreak.
Secondary / film reference28 Years Later — prologue / later chronology cross-check
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.
Library bibliography / legal preview accessOpen Library — The Aftermath edition / preview catalogue
Steve Niles, Fox Atomic / Harper, 2007, ISBN 9780061236761. Four-story original graphic novel; catalogue lists a preview but full readable interior was not obtained.
Contemporary professional book reviewPublishers Weekly — direct graphic-novel review
Contemporary reviewed copy confirms chapter names / creators and the original containing edition. Does not certify every date caption.
Independent comics bibliographyGCD — Aftermath chapter index
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.
Secondary / story referenceThe Aftermath — chapter chronology reference
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.
Unverified interior-date leadReported Quarantine interior date — verification lead
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.
PrimaryBOOM / Simon & Schuster — 28 Days Later Omnibus
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.
Secondary / comics bibliographyBOOM series — issue / collected-edition chronology
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.
PrimaryDeclan Shalvey — #1 preview / process pages
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.
Publisher solicitation reproduced by comics pressBOOM July 2009 solicitation supplied to ComicList
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.
Secondary / film referenceThe Bone Temple — Jim ending cross-check
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.
PrimaryPhil Stoole — official commissioned five-short portfolio
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.
PrimaryPhil Stoole — original production CV
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.
Secondary fan inventory / leads, not canon authorityCommissioned shorts — context / identity cross-check
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.
Secondary / direct home-video review28 Weeks Later — inspected-disc review / animated features
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.
Official retail edition / direct listing check28 Days Later — published Faber screenplay edition
Exact Faber screenplay title checked on Amazon. A screenplay book, not a newly written prose sequel.
PrimaryFaber / Raincoast — 28 Years Later screenplay
Publisher-distributor confirms Alex Garland’s 112-page published screenplay, 2025. Matching Amazon title checked separately.
PrimaryJay Bushman — RageLeaks creator / writer portfolio
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.
PrimarySony campaign submission — Clio Entertainment
Studio campaign account confirms RageLeaks as an in-world intelligence site with recurring lore additions. Promotional mechanics / screenings are not separate fictional years.
Collector lead / unverified interiorOriginal 28 Days Later promotional comic — collector inventory
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.
Official retail / product checksAmazon — exact inspected products
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.

The dates.The evidence.

Broad coverage.Open questions.