Director Of Slumdog Millionaire Still Doing GREAT!
Danny Boyle, the director of Slumdog Millionaire, has just signed a new three-year, first look deal! What wonderful news for him! And his house wasn't even razed! From Variety:
Filmmaker Danny Boyle has inked a three-year producing pact with Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures, both of which played a crucial role in propelling Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" to worldwide success.Under the terms of the deal, Searchlight and Pathe will co-finance and co-produce Boyle's projects.
The director has yet to announce his next film.
Only recently did Boyle step off the months-long publicity campaign for "Slumdog." Around the time of its Oscar wins, the pic began its foreign run in earnest. After that, there was the film's release on DVD to promote.
Oh, I bet he is tired from all that promoting! Not as tired as after, say, watching your family tear itself apart in the aftermath of momentary celebrity, or, you know, sleeping in piles of garbage because your house was literally torn to the ground. But I bet when Boyle's head hits the pillow in the five star hotel where he's staying during these junkets, it only takes one or two glasses of very expensive whiskey to knock him right out! And then he has to get up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, spend an hour in the spa, and do it all over again!
Godspeed, Danny Boyle.
Posted by Gabe at 10:30 AM in Where Are They Now?
Tags: Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire
Just loving it!
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perhaps he should pull a Madonna and start adopting little Indian kids?
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Danny Boyle directed Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. I don't care if he eats orphan children in his spare time, that man should be able to work as long as he wants.
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Danny Boyle is riding that beautiful go cart of life
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Anybody else notice how 28 Days Later and Sunshine are both movies that present a seemingly thoughtful dystopian premise and then degenerate in their 30 minutes to low-rent slasher-movie murder rampages by superhumanly powered killing machines?
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Yeah, they're fucking awesome but devoid as hell of the artistic talent that stood out in the previous 2/3. Sunshie seemed to fuck itself up a bit more (Or maybe I just didn't enjoy it as much or some shit).
28 Days Later earns a goddamn lifetime pass for the opening third. SHIT BE REAL.
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Anybody else notice how Sunshine was Event Horizon?
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By the way, I actually like Event Horizon.
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yes -- I was so excited for Sunshine (Danny Boyle is my fave) and then halfway through I was all, "no, they wouldn't steal the plot of Event Horizon. . .would they?"
also gotta come in defense of 28 days later. that's a friggin awesome movie and very thought out the whole way through.
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Dude that movie's fuckin great. It's literally just that final CLIMAX that bugs me. It's like wanting to eat its zombie brains but have it too. THAT'S NOT FAIR. But seriously, all wankery aside, this movie is fuckin awesome.
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Look a bit more carefully at what the third act of 28D has to say about how genre roles and the military industrial complex adjust when we're desperate for survival. I love the whole film, but the third act elevates it beyond standard apocalypse-porn.
And I love Sunshine through and through, but I can't defend the Event Horizon twist. I love it, but I can't defend it.
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What about genre roles? That shit sure as hell SEEMED set up to make some grand statement. Did it make one beyond: horny guys with guns can be the worst? I don't think so. It's like Boyle fuckin played all his hands right up until that one and then--when everything was set up for a homerun--he just goes "ah, FUCK IT" and lets' them zombie rampage in the house.
The whole fuckin thing falls in outself in a messy, edgy, SUPER INTENSE SLASHER ending that just fuckin betrays the movie that came before it, PARTICULARLY the beginning of the last third.
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I think now would be the perfect opportunity to direct 28 Months Later. Nothing says Bollywood-palate cleanser like some fuckin zombies.
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better idea - zombies eating orphaned, homeless Indian slum kids
thin those ranks out a little.
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Yeah, but then you fuckin have zombie Indian slum kids. And then bright zombie colors. And then The Zombiecat Dolls dancing around and singing AND RUINING A SONG THAT WAS ALREADY GREAT.
Why do you want to subject the world to that shit, BRENDAN!!! WHY!
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Danny Boyle can do no wrong.
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Just to remind himself of his roots, every morning Danny Boyle leaps from a public toilet into a pool of shit. It's how he nourishes his inner aspect.
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good point American Patriot.
damn, i never think ahead!
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I am by no means a fan of that shitty, shitty movie, but I don't really know what Gabe wants from Danny Boyle about this situation. He sets up trusts for the kids, and buys them houses. Should he devote his life to the eradication of Indian poverty b/c he did a silly movie using real Indian actors? Or should he have never done a movie about people in different economic and cultural circumstances than himself? Should he have used Hollywood actors to play the poor kids, opening himself up to accusations of a different sort? And regarding the light tone of it - does every movie about poor people have to be a unbearably bleak and depressing realist screed about the evils of the world? You don't have to watch Sullivan's Travels to know that poor people themselves don't want to watch that. I'm genuinely asking, b/c I don't know what the "right" thing to do for Danny Boyle is supposed to be here. It just seems like self-righteous sniping by armchair critics so far. It's a complicated issue, more than it's being made out to be here, and I don't know what I would do in his situation.
And if you really want to see an exploitative movie about India, watch Darjeeling Limited. Indians are truly nothing but props and background in that horrible movie (not that the racial aspect is its only problem).
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He profited off of those kids and their very real poverty, and is continuing to do so. I don't think Danny Boyle himself is so bad, but his success is just a reminder of how awful and unfair this world can really be.
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how did he profit off of them? He cast them in a movie and paid them for same. This is not the first time that locals have been cast in a film. There are many people to blame for the abject poverty of Indian slums and the social stigma that affects individuals in those castes, but the filmmakers are not among them. I really don't know why Gabe insists that the producers and director should be held responsible, rather than the Indian state. The filmmakers did not create the poverty in which these children reside, and they should not be expected to remedy it.
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Fair enough. But i don't understand how you can say the film makes and producers did not profit off of the actors and their poverty, since the film made a truck load of dough. Many people made money off this film...but not the actors, at least not in comparison to Boyle and the producers. I understand that if these actors were like Dav Patel, from a relatively wealthy country and not in abject poverty, perhaps the issue would not be as prevalent. I'm not pointing the finger at Boyle, and I don't think anyone really should. But I think it is really good that it opens up a dialogue. The more people get upset about this one way or another, the more attention will be paid to an issue. Before this movie, who was even talking about India and it's poverty?
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Being Gabe means never having to say you're sorry.
Or, to use a Gabe-ism: Forget it jchild, it's Gabetown.
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Gabetown - it should be a movie!
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Sure he bought them houses. A one room townhouse. For a family of 7.
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Yes, he profited off the movie - should those years of work have been done for free? He is sharing the profits with the cast, so they're "profiting off" their situation as well. And as far as being reminded of how awful the world is, living every privileged day in a first world country is a reminder of that, if you're awake. It's hardly Boyle's fault that the world is a bummer.
To single out Boyle without offering any suggestion as to what he could've done differently is useless and hypocritical- a sort of moral Monday morning quarterbacking. I don't see anyone suggesting David Simon donate the entirety of his salary from The Wire to the poor of Baltimore. I guess it's because there's something about the third world brings out the worst kind of condescending paternalism in people. (It's also seems uncomfortably close to that bogus right-wing criticism of Michael Moore and Bruce Springsteen being unqualified to bring attention to the plight of the working class because they are rich themselves).
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two thumbs up
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Umm..if he wants to do a movie about Indian smack-heads running from zombies and Cameron Diaz on a beach I'd be OK with that.
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WHOA WHOA WHOA.
I wasn't told Cameron Diaz would be on a beach in this. FUCK IT. Bring on the Zombiecat Dolls; I can handle that shit.
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Let me clarify
running FROM Cameron Diaz on a beach
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I don't think you're being entirely fair, but that didn't stop me from enjoying this post immensely. I laffed.
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That guys head looks like a moldy fucking peach.
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