Charting Danny Boyle's Next Move

An Academy Award gives you a certain amount of leverage. If you're Daniel Day-Lewis, you use your Oscar to let you pick the projects you want, often taking years off in between so you can go make shoes in Italy. If you're Halle Berry: Catwoman. What will be out there for this year's crop? Well, all the acting winners are well known quantities, and they'd all been nominated before, with Sean Penn winning an Academy Award a few years ago for Mystic Pizza...I mean Mystic River. Danny Boyle, however, is kind of a party crasher. His Trainspotting adaptation was up for an Oscar 15 years ago or whatever it was, but until Slumdog Millionaire, he wasn't the sort of director who could demand any project out there. So what's next for Boyle? “I don’t know actually," he confessed to MTV. "I was involved in an animated film. I was going to make an animated film, but it’s all sort of fallen apart for me, so I don’t have anything." "I wish I knew," he added. When we talked to him in November, Boyle said that eventually a Trainspotting sequel would probably happen, and that he's open to revisiting the 28 Days Later films. But in the short term, neither of those are strong options. There have been rumors about an Apartheid movie called Ponte Tower, which Boyle says probably will never happen, and Texas Killing Fields, a film you could only make if you've got that certain kind of Oscar clout:

“Texas Killing Fields was a fantastic script, really special script, but it was just so dark it would never get made. You’d have to have half a dozen super megastars for a studio to even consider making it. It’s by an ex- cop from Galveston and visually would have been extraordinary, but I don’t think that’s going to happen."

That sounds like a really cool idea, especially given the warm fuzzies everyone got from Slumdog. I think I can guarantee that no matter what his next film is, it'll be high on more than a few must-see lists.

Comments

[lara petersen]

I adore Danny Boyle. Anything he does, I will pay to see : )

[OneFeistyGirl]

The world needs more Danny Boyle. More, more, more I say!

[Daniel T]

Danny Boyles films stick with you.

28 days later is my favourite horror film, Shallow Grave is my favourite thriller, The Beach is my favourite drama film.

Completely inspiring director.