Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are considered a damn competent duo in the cinema landscape.When the two make up for a film, something very good usually comes out. The quality of their joint projectsThe Beach,28 Days LaterorSunshinespeaks volumes.
But the 2007 sci-fi film with Cillian Murphy has in the leading roleTo a professional break between the twoled. It took 18 years for the two to be able to inspire again for a new collaboration: the new zombie trilogy thatStarts on June 19, 2025.
What exactly did it happen in the production of Sunshine? Boyle and Garland go on this in conversation with Empire (viaScreenRant) a:
We had an argument.
Why Sunshine led to an argument
At Sunshine, two different creative visions for the final product met.While Danny Boyle had a clear plot in mind, Alex Garland wanted to leave the audience more space for interpretation and thus provoke praise, but also criticism from the audience.
Boyle wrote a detailed prologue that should have explained the world of Sunshine. But Garland couldn't do anything and said:
If you put it in the film, I'm out!
In retrospect, Boyle says that he himself because of his approachdebt
is on the break between him and his colleague. Garland is also willing to compromise and admits that he is the dispute with Boyleprovoked
would have.
The director ofEx MachinaorExtinguishingeven admits that he was criticized for the large interpretation room of his filmsconstantly boost
become.
Professional fracture - but without evil blood
Ultimately, the disagreements at Sunshine led to a break between Boyle and Garland, which was purely professional in nature -In private there is said not to have any mutual resentment. After Sunshine, Garland even contacted Boyle with the words:
I'm sorry that we had such a bad time together. I hope that you have a better time on your next film.
At the latest at Alex Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina in 2014, the two then approached again: Garland really wanted to know what his colleague from the sci-fi film with Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac.
That also laid the foundation for 28 Years Later:Boyle and Garland approached each other again professionally and are now producing a whole trilogy.
28 Years Later starts on June 19, 2025 in German cinemas. Danny Boyle directs, while Alex Garland writes the scripts for all three planned films. In part 2, which follows on January 15, 2026, Nia Dacosta is a director on the trigger. For the third and last part, Boyle returns personally again.
