Summer Solstice Approaches in Form of Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine’

Fox Searchlight sent me an interesting graphic today about the upcoming film “Sunshine” from director Danny Boyle. He’s the director who brought you “Trainspotting” and “28 Days Later”.


Like what “28 Weeks Later” director Eli Roth is doing with the creation of “Cell,” Boyle is also trying to lure audiences with the fear of real-world Armageddon.

In “Sunshine,” astronauts are sent to reignite the dying sun 50 years in the future. The plot, though, doesn’t center around the sun’s death in the traditional sense.

Instead, the sun has been “infected” with a “Q-ball,” which is a super-symmetric nucleus left over from the big bang that is disrupting normal matter.

As I will be out of town on July 18 when Boyle comes to Chicago for a press day, I am efforting scheduling a phoner. The film opens on July 20.