The director Danny Boyle is completely obsessed with time, according to Hollywood insiders. The first signs of the Trainspotting helmer’s addiction came with his 2002 movie ‘28 Days Later‘ – a 113 minute meditation on the menstrual cycle, as told through the prism of 1,000 grandfather clocks, all keeping slightly different time. For the next five years, Boyle’s obsession deepened. His time was spent crisscrossing the country, buying all the clocks he could find and searching for a new story to tell – by 2007, his collection had filled three penthouses on the Upper West side of Manhattan, and pals feared for his mental health, staging an intervention that restricted him solely to producing duties on the extended muse on pregnancy, ’28 Weeks Later’. Regardless, Boyle still managed to mastermind a sequence featuring 1,000 hourglasses and all the sand from Venice Beach.
Recently, he has gone public with his obsession. The Oscar-winning auteur openly discussed plans for the third in his time-based trilogy, a movie entitled ‘127 Hours Of Silence’ for which cinemagoers will be locked into a sound-proofed room for five and a half days with limited access to food and water. Rumour has it that an even grander opus could be in the offing, possibly starring the survivors of its predecessor.
“Hours, minutes, seconds – we’re running out I reckon,” said the director when asked for comment.
News hour, with Jerry Caesar 