It was written ;) Warm Regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vinayak theregoesanotherday.blogspot.com
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:53 PM, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting. > > Seems some combo of stars is "conspiring" in favor of this movie since > the beginning. :-) > > -- > Rawat > > http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-01-28-simon-beaufoy_N.htm > > In the script: Beaufoy, Boyle and 'Slumdog Millionaire' > by Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY > > TORONTO — There was no way that Danny Boyle, the cutting-edge British > director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, was going to do a film > about a subject as pedestrian as a TV game show. > > Or so he thought. > > "The producer sent me the script," he says of Slumdog Millionaire, which > has taken in $56 million at the box office, fetched 10 Oscar nominations > and is the current favorite for best picture. "My agent or someone told > me it was about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." > > But before Boyle could toss it aside, he caught the name of the > screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy, whose first Oscar bid was for The Full > Monty, the surprise international hit from 1997. > > "Simon's terrific, so I genuinely thought I should read it and speak to > him about it, imagining that I would say no," Boyle says. Not quite. "I > was 20 pages in, and that was it. You just know when you are going to do > something." > > -- more on the site. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? > <b> > Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. > Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. > > Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com > Admin: [email protected] > To Subscribe: [email protected] > To Unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups > Links > > > >
