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03Jun2009

Danny Boyle Heading Back to Mumbai

DateWednesday, June 3, 2009 at 9:27PM
According to The Wall Street Journal, Danny Boyle will return to Mumbai, India for his next film. Boyle has bought the film rights to the 2004 book, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by journalist Suketu Mehta.

Mehta's first book is described as "a searing account of Mumbai - part personal essay, part travelogue" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. The surprise is not that Boyle would want to adapt the book but rather that he would want to do it so soon after making the most famous, profitable and likely the most influential India-based film ever made. In interviews in support of Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle cited Mehta repeatedly for his insight into the world Boyle was trying to depict.

“Maximum City became my Bible, really. I took it with me everywhere," Boyle admitted last December. "I felt part of the time we were adapting that.”

When The Big Picture talked to Boyle last November, he made it clear that he had no idea what he would be working on next, and as it happens, he's had to spend more months with Slumdog than he ever envisioned, with its run to Oscar glory in February to the still thorny situation involving the young actors in the film, who are still living in substandard conditions.

But sometimes directors wind up feeling that there's more of the story to tell. Obviously, the tone would be much different than Slumdog, and Boyle certainly brought a perspective to Mumbai that we hadn't seen before, so if there's more to explore, why not let this guy do it?

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