Rosario Dawson must be looking to shift gears hard after her turn as Kevin James enabler in Zookeeper, as she’s just signed on to Danny Boyle’s Trance alongside Vincent Cassel and James McAvoy. The trio will rustle up intrigue between themselves as an art heist turns into a much bigger and more dangerous event than originally planned. McAvoy and Cassel will be in on the heist together before their allegiance is severed, and Dawson will have some sort of (currently) vague connection to both of them.
This is a fine start to a cast for Boyle’s thriller, but if the names get you excited, simmer down– you won’t be seeing this movie for some time. Not content to sit on his hand until he beings his work as the director of the 2012 summer Olympic games, Boyle will shoot this flick and then take a pause while he handles the ceremonies. The objective is a March release in 2013.
To return to the casting notices, Cassel and Dawson seem to be taking on the roles that were respectively rumored for Colin Firth and Scarlett Johannson earlier in the month. The increasingly busy Michael Fassbender was apparently in talks even before that. And while Dawson is signed, apparently Cassel and McAvoy are both still negotiating, so the fill could possibly go through another round of names before everything settles- I get the impression these two are close though.
There are surely more roles to be filled and more story details to come out, especially if Boyle is on a tight schedule and must get this one in the can. Boyle’s last film 127 Hours had him at this finest, turning an inherently inert story into one of the most spirited and exciting films of the year, so I’m I’ll be keeping an eye out for more info.
Source | Deadline
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I think Fassbender would have been a good match with Boyle’s style, too bad he was unable to do it. Cassel isn’t any slouch either, so his casting is promising. Not so sure about Scarlett or Rosario. While I would rather see Rosario get the role instead of Scarlett, who bores me to tears every time I look at her, I don’t think either of them has done anything that suggests they would gel well with Boyle. I was a little hesistant when he cast Franco though and 127 Hours ended up being my favorite movie last year, mostly because of his performance, so if Boyle wants to cast these people, I’m sure he knows what he is looking for.
Each Danny Boyle movie has been a treasure, I love that he keeps taking on new genres, but someday I hope he revisits sci-fi. Sunshine is one of my favorite movies, so many golden moments despite it’s flaws.
Yeah, I think Danny Boyle is one of the best mainstream studio directors working today, definitely in his prime, right along with Christopher Nolan and Peter Jackson.
I too hope he takes another stab at science fiction, though something a bit less opaque than Sunshine. Would love to see what Boyle could with a Robert Heinlein or Philip K. Dick-like techno-thriller.
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