Danny Boyle doesn’t harbour any dreams to direct a James Bond movie.
With Sam Mendes saying he is stepping down after 2012′s Skyfall and this year’s Spectre, the hunt for a director for the 25th film in the franchise is expected to start soon.
But don’t expect the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire film-maker to put his hat in the ring.
“No, I’ve done a Bond movie,” he said.
Danny’s Bond moment came when he wowed the world with his opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympic Games, which included a scene involving Daniel Craig’s 007 alter-ego and the Queen.
“I admire what Sam Mendes has done with it very much, but it’s not really for me. Those huge films, I would never want to do them. I’d rather make the smaller ones as complex and pleasurable as possible.”
The British director – whose latest film is the biopic of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the technology star – is about to start shooting the long-awaited sequel to his 1996 film Trainspotting.
The hard-hitting drama, based on Irvine Welsh’s book, starred Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller and remains one of the highest-grossing British independent films of all time.
“A couple of the actors [Jonny and Robert] have ongoing television shows in America, but there’s a window we can shoot in May and June [next year] so we’re setting up to do that,” Danny said.
He admitted the cast were all rather “tentative” about returning to their breakthrough roles.
“I think they were all worried about doing it for the wrong reasons and the test of that is partly the script, which I think they were all convinced by,” he said.
“You read scripts all the time, especially those guys, and they could see it’s a good script, and also, just the way we talked about it, how it would be set up and shot.
“It’s not about trying to cash in on the original. It lives in the shadow of the original to a degree but in a really interesting way, which I can’t really tell you about.”
Steve Jobs is in cinemas now.
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