Boyle's Busy

By Stuart Wood: 2005-03-05 00:00:00

With new movie Millions hitting US theatres next week and receiving annoying apathy on the forums, Danny Boyle has spoken to Coming Soon about his upcoming projects.

First on his plate is starting preproduction on Sunshine, a sci-fi thriller that sounds like a mix of Armageddon and 2001. Boyle says confidently; "We hope to start in July. It's kind of a space mission movie, in which they're taking a bomb the size of Kansas to reignite a section of the sun that's failing. It's got those rules of sci-fi, and it has a mystery attached to it as well. There's a mission that's failed seven years earlier and nobody knows what's happened to the crew, and at the end, they get to meet the source of all life in the universe. That has got to be worth 10 or 12 bucks or whatever you guys pay."

Of the oft-rumoured but never commited Porno, the follow-up to Trainspotting, Boyle had this to say; It's not like an easy cash-in sequel. It's like what they're like in twenty years time when they're middle-aged, but it's a long-term project way down the line. The challenge for those actors--and who knows how their careers will map out--will be to come back to characters that they've played and then to play them with twenty years of your own experience laid on top of them. It should be interesting. The idea of it is not to attract a new audience to 'Trainspotting'; it's to play it to everybody who watched it when it first came out, because they also would have that twenty years of ups and downs and what have you."

And while on the subject of sequels, what about that 28 Weeks Later? "It's a very strong, simple idea again, that England has basically been abandoned, and there's been no life there for six months. The Americans arrive to start it back up again, to reboot it…especially the franchises that are going to waste." He says he will only serve as Executive Producer and didn't expect the stars of the original to return.

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