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Preview: Danny Boyle’s Sci-Fi Actioner “Sunshine” Trailer

Danny Boyle is a pretty good filmmaker with an insanely eclectic filmography. The dude went from a wacky drug-out flick in “Trainspotting” to a wacky (but pleasantly cool) romantic drama in “A Life Less Ordinary” to a zombie marathon in “28 Days Later”. His latest is “Sunshine”, a sci-fi thriller about astronauts in the near future sent to “re-ignite” a dying sun or else mankind is doomed. Boyle re-teams with “The Beach” and “28 Days Later” writer Alex Garland (who recently made noise by being paid a cool $1 million to write the now-defunct “Halo” movie). Check out the trailer and some movie stills for the flick. It definitely looks good, but I still have reservations about how the subject matter and constrained locales will translate into an action movie.

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