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Trainspotting: Because It’s Shite Being Scottish
“Choose life, choose a career…” blah blah blah, you don’t have to do any of that tonight, just choose to watch this movie. Trainspotting is one of the best book-to-movie adaptations ever. Ev-er. The characters from Irvine Welsh’s novel are brought to life with perfection. It’s got everything. Sex, drugs, comedy, drugs, action, drugs, a … Continued
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How realistic will Danny Boyle’s movie about shapeshifting dogs be?
Oscar award winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who worked with Danny Boyle on 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire, gave us an update on their next collaboration: translating Toby Barlow’s lycanthrope book Sharp Teeth into film! Find out which Hollywood dogs might make the casting cut! Plus more news on his current project: adapting the second Hunger … Continued
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Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein leaps off the stage and into movie theaters
Now this is a show that doesn’t need fancy stunts to sell us. Watch the trailer for Danny Boyle’s stage translation of Frankenstein, coming soon to select movie theaters. (Previously Boyle directed 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and 172 Hours, among others). Just to make things really interesting, the two lead actors swap the roles of … Continued
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The Zombie Mashup You’ve Been Waiting For: An International Relations Textbook with Zombies
How would the international community respond to the rise of a zombie horde? Daniel Drezner’s Theories of International Politics and Zombies answers this crucial question — but also parodies the stultifying state of academic international relations programs. And for those of us who don’t understand all the competing theories of international relations out there, it … Continued
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28 Days Later screenwriter taking on Logan’s Run?
Could the upcoming Logan’s Run movie actually be better than the campy 1976 original? Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle-dircted films Sunshine and 28 Days Later, is in talks to write the screenplay, going back to the original 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson for inspiration. And Carl Erik Rinsch, … Continued
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What Was The Last Movie You Saw Without Knowing Anything About It?
When was the last time you walked into a movie, without knowing anything beyond the title and maybe who was in it? Not even seeing the trailer first? These days, it’s hard to believe such an experience even exists. And yet, there was a time when I routinely saw movies after glancing at a poster … Continued
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Does Judge Dredd Movie Have A Screenplay Already?
There’s been no movement on a Judge Dredd movie since we featured some lovely concept art back in January. But yesterday, concept artist (and comics god) Jock Twittered that he’s “working through script visuals for Judge Dredd movie. Alex Garland writes a great script.” That’s confirmation that Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) … Continued
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Slumdog Millionaire Crowd Scenes Shot Covertly With Canon Still Cameras
Talking about the process of shooting Golden Galaxy-winner Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle reveals that they shot parts of the movie using a “a Canon stills camera, which takes 12 frames per second.” They used the still cameras to shoot crowd scenes, since they didn’t use actors, just waves people flowing by, and they wanted … Continued
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New Judge Dredd Movie Getting Danny Boyle Treatment?
The 1995 Judge Dredd movie may have failed to please fans of the justice-dispensing, motorcycle-riding Megacity One lawman. But that hasn’t stopped the movie biz from trying again… this time with British producers. I’m in a tiny minority of people who enjoyed the Stallone film as an example of shlock cinema at its finest, without … Continued
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Who’s Really The Greatest SF Director Working Today?
We caused some consternation last week when we said Danny Boyle might be the most gifted director currently working in science fiction. So it’s time to settle the issue. Who’s really the greatest and most talented director creating science fiction movies today? Note: We didn’t include any directors who haven’t worked in the genre this … Continued
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Danny Boyle Tells io9 About Renouncing Space Opera
Click to viewDanny Boyle may be the most gifted director working in science fiction today. Like Ridley Scott, he’s made a number of non-SF films, but his contributions to the genre have stood out among its best works. We had a chance to sit down with Boyle and talk about how his new film, the … Continued
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28 Months Later, Are Those “Zombies” Still Running Around London?
Sounds like the rage virus still hasn’t been disinfected from our lives just yet. Director of 28 Days Later and producer of the sequel 28 Weeks Later, Danny Boyle is toying with our heart strings by vaguely talking about the possibility of yet another outbreak of the rage virus. And he may actually direct, this … Continued
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Battle of the Genitals in Science Horror Movies
Critics are always saying that horror movies are about fearing vaginas, but they’re wrong. Sure there’s vadge imagery aplenty in horror (just watch the run of Alien movies if you don’t believe me), but the scariest science horror flicks of the last thirty years are actually about everything that can go wrong with a dude. … Continued
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Sunshine Should Be Burning Up the Oscars
The Academy’s shortlist for visual effects awards hit the web yesterday, and Sunshine isn’t anywhere to be found. If you want to see why this is such a travesty, then head out and pick up a copy on DVD today. We know all of you didn’t see it, and it flew under the radar for … Continued
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Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”
We can’t wait for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine to come out on DVD next Tuesday. Sunshine might have been the best SF movie of 2007, even though its science was iffy in places. Take this cool-looking scene, where hapless communications officer Harvey tries to jump from one spaceship to another without a suit and doesn’t quite … Continued
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USA Today Can’t See The Sunshine
Claudia Puig over at USA Today gets it wrong, yet again. The film critic has posted an article called “Dark themes shine a beacon of light at the theater” which is supposed to be about how depressing flicks were big at the box office, but it quickly devolves into nothing more than a list of … Continued
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Sunshine’s Realistic, Biospheric Spaceship
Just a few more weeks until January 8, the day Sunshine DVDs hit stateside. This flick is director Danny Boyle’s space opera about a ship called the Icarus II whose destiny is to plunge into the heart of the sun and “relight” it. OK, dorky science premise aside, this is a seriously awesome show from … Continued
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4 Maverick Filmmakers You Should Stalk
Screw McG. The most alarming visions of five minutes from now are coming from a handful of filmmakers who bring their weird imaginations to film after film. Here’s a list of four creators you should be obsessing about. Stuff your Netflix queue with their past movies. Hunt down the obscure shit. Show up for their … Continued
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Psychedelic Dante 01 Trailer — Gorgeous But Familiar
Marc Caro, probably best known from his collaborative directing with Jean Pierre Jeunet on such films like The City Of Lost Children and Delicatessen, has a new scifi film coming out called Dante 01. It combines the visual look of THX 1138, Aliens (especially the third entry in that series), and even Danny Boyle’s underrated … Continued
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Must See: 28 Days Later
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Title: 28 Days Later Date: 2002 Vitals: Animal rights activists release monkeys infected with a virus called Rage that quickly converts all of England into drooling, zombified … Continued