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Let me tell you a little story . . .

50 years from now, Earth's Sun finally starts to die, mankind is finally starts to die with it. A team of astronauts set out on a mission to revive the Sun – they fail. Now our last and best chance for survival is a second spaceship with a second crew of eight astronauts (six men and two women) carrying a second device that may be able to breath life back into the star. Unfortunately things don't quiet go as planned (when do they ever) and deep into the voyage, as our erstwhile heroes slip out of radio contact with Earth their mission slips toward disaster as their fight to save lives becomes a battle against creeping insanity.

I know, I know what you're thinking, that all sounds about as promising Jerry Bruckheimer could make it, as promising as Meteor or Deep Impact or God forbid the unmitigated horror that was Armageddon. But what it's the second coming of that late great unmade James Cameron epic Bright Angel Falling or something like it instead?

Well keep reading, because it just may be the latter and because the film in question "Sunshine" once again pairs the three musketeers responsible for the best post original Dawn of the Dead zombie film since the Italians stopped making them (read: 28 Days Later). That's right "Sunshine" marks the return of "Trainspotting" director Danny Boyle, The Tesseract's novelist / screenwriter Alex Garland and "The Last King of Scotland" producer Andrew Macdonald. They are back and more importantly, they've brought recent "Babylon AD" inductee, "Tomorrow Never Dies" alum and all around baddest-assed woman on the planet [Michelle Yeoh] with them.

Here's a bit of what she's had to say about it all:

"If you look at [Danny Boyle's] films you don't know what to expect from him. There were so many zombie movies out there before [28 Days Later]. So why was his different? It was different because he had an edge. So [Sunshine] is just eight astronauts going up to save the world . . . We've heard that many times before. [But] you have to see it. It's got his edge."

Sunshine will also treat us to Wicker Park's Rose Byrne, Whale Rider's Cliff Curtis, Cellular's Chris Evans, After The Sunset's Troy Garity, Batman Begin's Scarecrow and 28 Days Later alum Cillian Murphy, The Last Samurai's Hiroyuki Sanada and Dirty Pretty Thing's Benedict Wong.

It's due to hit theatre's sometime before the end of 2006.

Posted by Peter Collinson on Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 2:05 AM | Permalink