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Now this is a show that doesn't need fancy stunts to sell us. Watch the trailer for Danny Boyle's stage translation of Frankenstein, coming soon to select movie theaters. (Previously Boyle directed 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and 172 Hours, among others). Just to make things really interesting, the two lead actors swap the roles of Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature with each performance. More »
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How would the international community respond to the rise of a zombie horde? Daniel Drezner's Theories of International Politics and Zombies answers this crucial question — but also parodies the stultifying state of academic international relations programs. And for those of us who don't understand all the competing theories of international relations out there, it sounds like Drezner's zombie book is a pretty good primer. According to a great writeup in Mother Jones: More »
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At a press conference to promote his upcoming mountain-climbing thriller 127 Hours, Danny Boyle mentioned that he's not against directing 28 Months Later, but he's booked until 2012. The infected may run fast, but this project's moving slooow. [/Film] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5663187&view=rss&microfeed=true Could the upcoming Logan's Run movie actually be better than the campy 1976 original? Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle-dircted films Sunshine and 28 Days Later, is in talks to write the screenplay, going back to the original 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson for inspiration. And Carl Erik Rinsch, who wowed everybody with his short film "The Gift," may direct. This film could actually be... good? [Heat Vision Blog] More »
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When was the last time you walked into a movie, without knowing anything beyond the title and maybe who was in it? Not even seeing the trailer first? These days, it's hard to believe such an experience even exists. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5505142&view=rss&microfeed=true There's been no movement on a Judge Dredd movie since we featured some lovely concept art back in January. But yesterday, concept artist (and comics god) Jock Twittered that he's "working through script visuals for Judge Dredd movie. Alex Garland writes a great script." That's confirmation that Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) is writing the script, and that he's already written enough of it for Jock to be working on visuals of specific scenes. Slashfilm speculates that Mark Romanek, currently in post-production on an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go from a screenplay by Garland, could direct Dredd as well. [via Slashfilm] More »
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The 1995 Judge Dredd movie may have failed to please fans of the justice-dispensing, motorcycle-riding Megacity One lawman. But that hasn't stopped the movie biz from trying again... this time with British producers. More »
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We caused some consternation last week when we said Danny Boyle might be the most gifted director currently working in science fiction. So it's time to settle the issue. Who's really the greatest and most talented director creating science fiction movies today? More »
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Danny Boyle may be the most gifted director working in science fiction today. Like Ridley Scott, he's made a number of non-SF films, but his contributions to the genre have stood out among its best works. We had a chance to sit down with Boyle and talk about how his new film, the Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire, is a William Gibson-style five-minutes-into-the-future adventure. He also talked about a second 28 Days Later sequel, his cult classic Alien Love Triangle, why he'll never make another space movie, and why he would never direct a big-screen Doctor Who film. More »
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Sounds like the rage virus still hasn't been disinfected from our lives just yet. Director of 28 Days Later and producer of the sequel 28 Weeks Later, Danny Boyle is toying with our heart strings by vaguely talking about the possibility of yet another outbreak of the rage virus. And he may actually direct, this time. Will Boyle be showing us what happened 28 Months Later? Please bring back the super duper fast undead, the zombie-loving community will thank you. More »
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Critics are always saying that horror movies are about fearing vaginas, but they're wrong. Sure there's vadge imagery aplenty in horror (just watch the run of Alien movies if you don't believe me), but the scariest science horror flicks of the last thirty years are actually about everything that can go wrong with a dude. I'm not just talking about the malfunctioning penis that blows up Tokyo in Legend of the Overfiend. I'm talking about something deeper. And yes, maybe even . . . harder. More »
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The Academy's shortlist for visual effects awards hit the web yesterday, and Sunshine isn't anywhere to be found. If you want to see why this is such a travesty, then head out and pick up a copy on DVD today. We know all of you didn't see it, and it flew under the radar for a lot of people out there, so we'll wait here patiently while you pick one up or add it to the old Netflix queue. Or you can click through to see our analysis of how special effects in the actual nominees compare to the stunning Sunshine. More »
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Claudia Puig over at USA Today gets it wrong, yet again. The film critic has posted an article called "Dark themes shine a beacon of light at the theater" which is supposed to be about how depressing flicks were big at the box office, but it quickly devolves into nothing more than a list of her best and worst of the year. Plus she snubs science fiction films altogether. Memo to Claudia: Danny Boyle's brilliant (and underappreciated) film Sunshine was just about the darkest-themed film out there this year, plus shining a beacon of light! It's all about reigniting our dying sun. More »
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Just a few more weeks until January 8, the day Sunshine DVDs hit stateside. This flick is director Danny Boyle's space opera about a ship called the Icarus II whose destiny is to plunge into the heart of the sun and "relight" it. OK, dorky science premise aside, this is a seriously awesome show from the director of 28 Days Later, with gorgeous designs and a trippy FX-laced plot. One of the touches of realism Boyle insisted on was exploring how the spaceship would provide its own oxygen via an elaborate system of plant-lined ducts. You can see the "oxygen room" set here under construction — those big washing machine-looking things are ducts, and the floor is soon to be packed with plants. See the final sets after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=336301&view=rss&microfeed=true Screw McG. The most alarming visions of five minutes from now are coming from a handful of filmmakers who bring their weird imaginations to film after film. Here's a list of four creators you should be obsessing about. Stuff your Netflix queue with their past movies. Hunt down the obscure shit. Show up for their new releases on opening night. Make their movies take out a restraining order on you. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=325519&view=rss&microfeed=true Marc Caro, probably best known from his collaborative directing with Jean Pierre Jeunet on such films like The City Of Lost Children and Delicatessen, has a new scifi film coming out called Dante 01. It combines the visual look of THX 1138, Aliens (especially the third entry in that series), and even Danny Boyle's underrated Sunshine into a package that might give you some deja vu. More »
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Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.

Title: 28 Days Later
Date: 2002

Vitals: Animal rights activists release monkeys infected with a virus called Rage that quickly converts all of England into drooling, zombified speed freaks who want nothing more than to bite and infect more people. Cillian Murphy is part of a small band of survivors who must hide from the infected - and escape a group of surviving soldiers who have gone even more buggy than the zombies. A post-apocalyptic nail-biter with a serious political message, 28 Days Later is one of the most terrifying movies of the early twenty-first century. More »
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