It’s official then! Danny Boyle finally gets his wish. The project which he’s been circling for quite some time will indeed be his next. You can put all that MAXIMUM CITY talk aside for now because Variety has confirmed that Boyle is set to direct 127 HOURS based on a true story of Aron Ralston, the American mountain climber who self-amputated part of his arm when it was pinned in a 2003 back-country hiking accident… Read the rest of this entry »
It was announced that the Oscar winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle has bought the rights to the 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist MAXIMUM CITY: BOMBAY LOST AND FOUND by Indian author Suketu Mehta. Part essay, part travelogue, throughout the entire production of Slumdog, Boyle held on to this particular book like it was his bible because it gave him insights to the the city.
According to telegraph, Simon Beaufoy will reunite with the filmmaker for this project. This is what Beaufoy said..
“It was only decided a couple of weeks ago, but I will be writing the script for Danny… Maximum City is a non-fiction work, so it will be a huge challenge to find the story in it. It is a wonderful book and I used it in my initial research for Slumdog. There are some great characters in the book, but no stories, so my job will be to get the fictional out of a non-fictional story.”
I have some close friends and family who misunderstand and still think that Slumdog Millionaire is a Bollywood movie, even after the fact that the director’s British, the screenwriter’s British and the lead producer’s British.
I think it’s awesome and all that Boyle wants to do another movie set in India but how would this make Indian filmmakers feel?.. that they don’t get to do a movie about their own freakin’ home and get Oscars for it.
There were talks not too long ago that Slumdog Millionaire Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy had been hired by Fox to work on WOLVERINE sequel. Although it’d be fun to his take on the franchise, there’s no truth behind that claim at all, word has it Beaufoy himself is not familiar with WOLVERINE universe.
Hee’d been approached producer Lauren Shuler Donner about the possibilities but nothing’s locked in yet.
By the way, if you haven’t seen last year’s greatest movie, make sure you rent or buy Slumdog Millionaire when it hits the streets on March 31st, 2009. I recommend straight up buying the copy because Fox rental DVDs won’t have special features anymore. Stupid Fox!
But according to TheHollywoodReporter, we know now what Beaufoy’s project’s going to be and that is to adapt TRUCKERS based on Terry Pratchett’s trilogy novel, a project that previously had the name Andrew Adamson of Narnia attached to it at one point in time.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book..
“They’re four inches tall
in a human-sized world.
Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: “Everything Under One Roof.” Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense.
That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside, talking about Day and Night and Snow and other crazy legends. And they soon uncover devastating news: The Store is about to be demolished. It’s up to Masklin, one of the Outside nomes, to devise a daring escape plan that will forever change the nomes’ vision of the world.”
