By Though it was a box-office fizzer, Danny Boyle’s sci-fi saga “Sunshine” scored plenty of acclaim at the time and is looked back on fondly these days.
Starring a cast that are even bigger names these days than back then including Oscar winners Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh, Emmy winner Hiroyuki Sanada, and the likes of Chris Evans, Benedict Wong, Rose Byrne, Mark Strong, and Cliff Curtis.
All starred in the story of an astronaut mission to reignite a dying sun. Now, in a new interview promoting “28 Years Later,” Boyle confirmed to Collider that the film’s writer Alex Garland actually planned “Sunshine” as the first of a ‘planetary trilogy’:
“So originally, when we were doing it, Alex [Garland] wrote two other parts. It was supposed to be a trilogy. He [Garland] only wrote an outline. It was a planetary trilogy. It was to do with the sun itself, with two other stories. What’s interesting is Alex has a natural instinct as a storyteller to want to tell these expanding stories, and that is why 28 Years Later wound up as a trilogy.
Asked what the plot of the “Sunshine” sequel would’ve been he says: “Oh, I can’t tell you that… Well, because I can’t remember it in enough detail. But there was an extraordinary idea in one of them.”
Pressed to give up the information, he laughed and said: “No! Because Alex might use it again.” Boyle adds he remains proud of it, saying: “I really love the film” and he meets a lot of people who mention the movie and its one of the ones he’s made that makes people “genuinely think”.
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