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08Oct2009

Danny Boyle Zeroes In On His Next Project

DateThursday, October 8, 2009 at 9:45PM
After Danny Boyle won his Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, there was a lot of speculation about what he might do next. Porno, the sequel to Trainspotting? Another turn behind the camera for one of those 28 Weeks Later movies? A return visit to India? All have been mentioned as options, but it looks like none will emerge as his next film.

The director spoke to Digital Spy (via The Playlist) and said very little: "I can't quite tell you about it because it's not quite all signed, sealed and sorted out legal-wise. It's based on a true story so there were complications to do with rights, that kind of stuff," Boyle says, thereby eliminating the first two options.

"We're close to solving it and hope to be shooting in March next year."

I'll give heaps of credit to The Playlist for connecting the dots on this. According to their article, Boyle has been developing a bio-pic of American mountaineer Aaron Ralston, who as you might recall had to amputate his own arm with a dull knife after becoming trapped, as the title of his biography suggests, between a rock and a hard place.

Boyle apparently likes Ryan Gosling for the role, which is hard to argue with, and this is a great story, or at least the pivotal moment of it is something you can build a movie around. What I hope from Boyle is that he doesn't decide to pan for gold with this one. Slumdog came from such an authentic place, I'd hate to see him try too hard to repeat that kind of result.

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