‘Maximum City’ Won’t Be Next For Danny Boyle

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Though “Slumdog Millionaire” director and now South-Asian enthusiast, Danny Boyle has optioned the rights to Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found” a narrative nonfiction socio-political travelogue and memoir about the people of Mumbai written by Suketu Mehta, and already hired ‘Slumdog’ scribe Simon Beaufoy to adapt the book for the screen, it appears the project won’t be the first film from his new 3-picture deal with Fox Searchlight.

The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Boyle at the Shanghai film festival where he is heading up the jury and although he wouldn’t specify what the next project was be, the trade says, “Boyle said that [‘Maximum City’] will not be first up.” However, it sounds like he might direct it.

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‘Slumdog’ Scribe Writing ‘Maximum City’ For Danny Boyle

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:21:00 +0000

“Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle is on the move. After ‘Slumdog’ took Oscar gold many reports of what the British filmmaker would take on next proved to be false (James Bond for one), but it appears that another trip to Mumbai might be next?

Possibly. India has clearly enchanted the filmmaker, and last week we learned that he had bought the rights to the non-fiction book, “Maximum City.” A few days after that came reports of potential upcoming collaborations with Indian directors Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth” and its sequel, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”) and Anurag Kashyap (“Dev D,” “No Smoking, “Black Friday”).

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