Danny Boyle Will Direct ‘Trance’ This Fall
By Russ Fischer/May 4, 2011 11:06 am EST
Deadline relates that the film is about “an art heist gone wrong” and that it has the “dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of Boyle films like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.”
No cast is announced yet, but the thought of Danny Boyle going back to some old thriller ground — and perhaps reining in his increasingly manic style just a tad — is something that gives me a thrill. Shallow Grave is fairly raw and wild, and I don’t expect a replication of that film, nor would I want one. But something in that vein that uses what he’s learned and developed in the 15-plus years since? That I do want to see.
Wait, 2013? Right — because after the primary shoot is done for Trance, he’ll have to work on the Olympics well into 2012. So the film will be shot this year, then cut and finished in fall of 2012, and released in 2013. It’s a weird process, and I’ll be curious to see if he can edit the film, after taking nearly a year off from it, without wanting to go back and do a lot of extra/new shooting.
