Danny Boyle has revealed that his cult sci-fi thriller Sunshine could have been the first part of a trilogy, if only it'd done a little better at the box office.
Starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, and Michelle Yeoh, Sunshine is set in the year 2057 in a version of the future where the sun is dying and the Earth is in danger of freezing to death. The movie, written by Boyle's 28 Days Later collaborator Alex Garland, follows a group of astronauts who are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the Sun with a bomb.
"Originally, when we were doing it, Alex wrote two other parts," the director said. "It was supposed to be a trilogy… I mean, he only wrote an outline. It was a planetary trilogy. It was to do with the sun itself, with two other stories. What’s interesting is Alex has a natural instinct as a storyteller to want to tell these expanding stories, and that is why 28 Years Later wound up as a trilogy."
He continued, "I can’t remember it in enough detail. But there was an extraordinary idea in one of them. It’s kind of Elon Musk scale, even though he’s lost a lot of credibility. But it was interplanetary stuff, it had more to do with that… There’s no rich man in it. But the idea of looking outside and moving."
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