Danny Boyle reveals that the sun was originally designed to be a trilogy

It turns out Danny Boyle-Direct Sunlight It was not just a one -way mission to rekindle the dying sun, it was almost the beginning of a much larger journey.

In a recent interview with Collider, Boyle dropped some information for fans of his 2007 cult classic. While the film has found love over the years, strengthened by a stacked cast (Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Chris Evans, Benedict Wong;

Boyle said, referring to the screenwriter and frequent collaborator Alex Garland:

“Initially, when we did it, Alex wrote two more parts. It had to be a trilogy. There were no other scripts; he had a pattern where the story would go.”

It was not just a more tension in the sun or another turning point on the psychological horror of science fiction. Boyle made fun of:

“It was a planetary trilogy. He had to do with the sun himself, with two other stories.”

Even if he did not do too much detail, probably for deference to Garland, he mentioned a rather ambitious territory:

“The interesting thing is that Alex has a natural instinct as a narrator who wants to tell these expanding stories, and this is why 28 years later they ended up like a trilogy.

“An extraordinary idea on Elon’s Musk scale type, even if he lost a lot of credibility. But he was interplanetary stuff, he had more to do with this … there is no rich man. But the idea of ​​looking out and moving.”

He has no longer paid information, in the event that Garland never wanted to revisit or reuse those ideas. But it is difficult not to imagine what could have been … a trilogy on the push of humanity into the deep space, built around science, sacrifice and terror soaked by the sun.

Given this 28 years later is finally becoming a trilogy decades later 28 days laterPerhaps Sunlight It is not yet completely out of orbit. Boyle has a talent to return to stories that deserve a second (or third) blow. And if Garland’s projects are still around somewhere, who knows? May happen.