Bask in Danny Boyle's Sunshine!
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Fox Searchlight
For years and years my response to the "Who's your favorite director?" question would have been "Terry Gilliam." But after suffering through The Brothers Grimm and being compelled to pluck my eyeballs out during Tideland, I believe I may have relegated the (still awesome) Mr. Gilliam to second or third on my list -- which allows the brilliant British bastard known as Danny Boyle to leap into the #1 spot. I mean, seriously: How could such brilliantly eclectic titles like Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and Millions all come from the same guy? (Well, credit where it's due: It's Boyle and his go-to screenwriter Alex Garland.)And for the past few months I've had my geek phaser set to stun regarding Mr. Boyle's next project: A deep-space sci-fi thriller called Sunshine that stars the likes of Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, and Chris Evans. Plot synopsis: 50 years in the future, scientists realize that our sun is dying out, so up go a team of astronauts to see if they can't fix the problem. They promptly vanish. Seven years later a new crew is dispatched, partially to figure out what went wrong, but mainly to save Earth from a massive melting.
Pretty nifty concept, even if does remind one of Event Horizon just a little bit. Anyway, the flick's not scheduled to hit the planet until next March, but if you visit the official site, you can sift through four pretty cool video segments, the most recent of which comes off like a rather enticing teaser trailer.
Considering how effortlessly Mr. Boyle does the genre-hop, one can only hope that his next flick is a post-apocalyptic action flick or a really bubbly musical comedy.
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6-22-2006 @ 11:56AM
Elrond Hobbert said...
It's Event Horizon but even more so Solar Crisis:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100649/
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6-22-2006 @ 12:00PM
Paul said...
> How could such brilliantly eclectic titles like Shallow Grave, Trainspotting,
> 28 Days Later, and Millions all come from the same guy? (Well, credit where
> it's due: It's Boyle and his go-to screenwriter Alex Garland.)
Um, Garland only wrote one of these.
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6-22-2006 @ 12:22PM
Christopher Campbell said...
Don't forget that before Garland, Boyle's writer was John Hodge, who interestingly enough wrote the screenplay adapted from Garland's novel The Beach. Then Garland came on later starting with 28 Days Later.
Anyway, Boyle is one of the few directors who hasn't yet directed a film I dislike. At first I was disappointed with A Life Less Ordinary, but it has really grown on me.
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6-22-2006 @ 1:53PM
josh said...
A Life Less Ordinary was a film that I almost liked - it seemed the last 10 minutes where totally slapped together at the last minute, veen down to the coda being spoken directly to the camera by the actors via a TERRIBLR blue screen job.
The Beach, was not a good movie. I loved the book, so maybe I'm biased, but I think i would have considered it a failure as a film even if I hadn't been a fan of the book first.
All of his other films have been excellent, however.
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6-22-2006 @ 2:08PM
The Jeremy said...
I would really like to see some British genre work cast Jemima Rooper into a role... Although I'm sure the general consensus would be to cast Billie Piper to make use of her acting fame from *Doctor Who* now that's she's leaving the show.
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6-22-2006 @ 2:58PM
ThePete said...
"Pretty nifty concept, even if does remind one of Event Horizon just a little bit."
Event Horizon, Blair Witch, Apocalypse Now and every other "guys go missing, new guys go find out whahappa" stories. Really, this premise doesn't sound interesting at all. However, Boyle making it does sound interesting.
Fingers crossed that it's good...
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6-23-2006 @ 3:55AM
Scott Weinberg said...
Good call on the Garland/Hodge comments. Thanks.
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