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Danny Boyle Talks New Thriller ‘Trance’ Plus First Stills

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Fresh from the unbelievable acclaim from all four corners of the planet regarding his major artistic direction of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, Danny Boyle, Oscar-winning director of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, has been talking about his return to celluloid with his gripping new thriller TRANCE.

Graphically violent and well on the way to being rated 18 for nudity, when asked if the film was about a scuppered art raid he had this to say:

“It begins like that. But it takes the idea of a stolen painting and develops into something sleeker and more psychological, with twists and turns… I wanted to do an updated noir, give it a contemporary spin in terms of emotion. Noir is usually cold. I wanted it to be more emotionally charged. It’s the first time I put a woman at the heart of a movie.”

Like characters in the 1994 low-budget hit SHALLOW GRAVE, he added that “Their only point of reference is to each other. There are no outsiders.”

The film has been penned by the top-class writing duo John Aherne, famous for his work on DOCTOR WHO, and John Hodge, who has served as scribe for several of Boyle’s previous outfits, including TRAINSPOTTING, SHALLOW GRAVE and THE BEACH. An official plot summary, with exclusive teaser pics, has been released for TRANCE, which stars James McAvoy of WANTED fame, Vincent Cassel of BLACK SWAN, and SIN CITY femme fatale Rosario Dawson in the protagonist role. The film is expected to have a 27th March 2013 UK release.

‘Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious.

In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly – and perhaps shrewdly – to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork.

Unable to coerce the painting’s location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon’s jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated.’

Source: Coming Soon

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