Sunshine

It's a lot of money for a first time independent film, but also for what we were trying to achieve, it was a tiny amount of money.

Sunshine, which was done by Danny Boyle, which was another science fiction film, is considered an independent science fiction film.

That was done for $50 million.

Sci-fi on a lower budget leading to a focus on story.

The fact that Matt has risen to such heights with Toast of London and his other shows, it's lucky casting.

A little note on Benedict Wong's sci-fi bona fides.

Previous to Moon, he starred in Sunshine, and subsequently he's been in Prometheus and The Martian, both for Ridley Scott.

On to the studio.

So 28 years later.

Sunshine, Dread, and then films he actually directed like Ex Machina, Annihilation, even something like Devs, Men, Civil War, Warfare, and now back to 28 years later, 28 years later, The Bone Temple.

I put Alex Garland Because there's very few writers out there who tackle such big ideas and genre stories in such an impactful, complex, and engaging way.

And I find it really hard to sit through one of his films that he has written without thinking about a lot of things.

I might stick in the Alex Garland mold because this is a guy who has a really interesting brain and he always makes really interesting stuff.

Charlie Kaufman.

Eternal Sunshine, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Anomalisa, Synecdoche, New York, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Six, I haven't actually seen Anomalisa.

My first of many comic book roles would be as the Human Torch in Fantastic Four and I would voice Casey Jones in the animated TMNT from 2007.

Other films include Sunshine for Danny Boyle, Street Kings and Scott Pilgrim vs The World.

But The World would really take notice when I starred as Steve Rogers in Captain America The First Avenger.

a role I would step into another ten times, including cameos.

But I- Oh, I think that you're absolutely right about that.

But I can also say as a warning, like when Sunshine by Danny Boyle was released, I saw it in a theater in Liverpool, England.

And after the film was over, I was complaining to all my friends quite vocally about how bad the science was in parts of it, especially about like restarting the sun.

And unbeknownst to me.

But it's like Rupert Murdoch's rise to power, basically.

Danny Boyle already made a movie about the literal sun called Sunshine.

So he's got all his bases covered.

However, sources said Gunn and Safran weren't ready to pull the trigger on any of these actors yet, and they decided to widen the search to include more actors in the auditions.

Okay, I'm ready to bear something in mind.

It's going to be written and directed by Alex Garland, who wrote Sunshine, and also that movie America's in Civil War.

Civil War.

Sure.

wrote

28 days later, He wrote Sunshine, which I also hadn't put two together, and then he wrote Dread, and then the next one that we've done is Ex Machina, which he also wrote.

Which is the first

thing... 28 Days Later was mine, and Sunshine and Ex Machina were him, I think.

Oh, was

it? Yeah.

Oh yeah, I picked Sunshine, yeah.

You picked Sunshine.

28 Days Later.

Sunshine.

Oh

yeah, Sunshine.

Yeah, I guess that becomes horror, doesn't it?

Just Danny Boyle and Neil Marshall.

If you're new to this podcast, every month we meet and talk about two films that we watched.

And this month we are going to be diving into The Shining and Sunshine.

So the movie Sunshine came out in 2007.

It's directed by Danny Boyle and it's starring Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

The tagline for it was, if it dies, so do we.

Like, I didn't remember that on the second viewing of when it was flashing.

And there is similarities to the flashing.

I'll try to remember when we get to Sunshine that used a similar method, but...

Yeah, of course.

Danny Boyle's Sunshine.

Yes.

He wanted the prologue.