Caffeinated Clint
Boyle’s next film is about ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’
‘Matthew’ attended the ‘Popcorn Taxi’ Q&A with Danny Boyle (“Sunshine”) last night – following a screening of the film – and summarised the revelations revealed in the Question and Answer session.
Hey Clint
Even though I thought it sounded like THE CORE II, I really enjoyed it. The Q and A was interesting. There were a lot of kiss ass comments coming from the audience but there were some good questions also. Here’s some of the stuff I remember (I tried to take my mp3 recorder in but security was tight). Not sure if any of it would be of interest or not.
* budget was $40 million
* spent 1 year in post production
* over 35 rewrites of the script
* the studio where the film was shot was only 10 minutes from where Boyle lived
* wanted Rose Byrne after seeing her in Troy
* thought Cillian Murphy was too “attractive” to play a biologist, but then met a biologist who was helping out on the film and he was more “attractive” than Murphy, so it justified his casting.
* the final scene was originally shot on DV to convince the studio to give them more money to shoot it properly.
* he would rather be in music than film but has no musical skill.
* put 3 Asians in the ship when he found out over 80% of Americans wouldn’t have agreed to the first moon landing if they knew how much it was going to cost. (wanted universal casting).
* after the film was shot, the studio paid for him and 35 journalist to experience a zero gravity flight.
* had the cast live in student amenities for awhile where they had to cook for themselves, to create a feel of solitude and being confined together.
* test screenings went “shit” cause the visual effects were not completed and he doesn’t think the audience could look past the incomplete effects.
*his next film is about a guy who knows the answers to things and he goes on “who want’s to be a millionaire” because the girl he likes watches the show.
* turned down Alien:Resurrection because at the time he was too scared to handle the amount of effects involved in making the film.
