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Posted by Matt Holmes

Danny Boyle is hardly my favourite director in the world. Mainly because I will never forgive him for messing up with the film adaptation of The Beach which is one of my favourite books, and SHOULD have easily been made into a kickass film.

Add to that, I’ve always thought Trainspotting was the biggest load of nonsense ever put on celluloid and 28 Days Later started off like the greatest zombie movie of all time before badly losing it’s way in the second act.

Anyway, enough of my rant. Variety are reporting that the British director has been hired to direct Ponte Tower, a thriller which is described as taking place entirely in one of Africa’s tallest skyscrapers.

More info from Variety…

The 54-story cylindrical Ponte Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa, was a powerful symbol of white affluence under Apartheid when it was built in 1975. Local papers even dubbed it “heaven on earth.” But the urban landmark became a wind-ravaged hellhole infected by gangs.

The film will be loosely based on a book by a German novelist Norman Ohler, about a “girl from Soweto who moves to the tower at the end of Apartheid and comes under the control of a charming drug lord”.

Boyle’s next feature film is of course the apoclayptic movie Sunshine, which if you missed it the other day, you can see the second trailer for by clicking here.

I must admit the second trailer makes the movie look half decent, but the Boyle stigma I have, stops me from expecting to much.

source - variety

categories - Movie News

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