Danny Boyle to direct 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
UK film director Danny Boyle will be Artistic Director for the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony.
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UK film director Danny Boyle will be Artistic Director for the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony.
Boyle, who directed such films as Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Shallow Grave and The Beach said his job was “to provide a thrilling, enthralling, captivating” evening.
“Hopefully it’ll take its place in the list of openings, but it’ll be a new beginning as well.”
Director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) is one of four other creatives who will oversee the Olympic and Paralympic Games’ opening and closing ceremonies along with Beijing 2008 Games designer Mark Fisher, TV director Hamish Hamilton and producer Catherine Ugwu.
Daldry said, “Myself and my co-executive producers will ensure there is creative continuity across all four ceremonies, that the public have real engagement and that we continue to attract into key roles the best talent in the world.”
The Nine Network has the live rights for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony.
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When I first saw the headline “Boyle to direct London 2012 Games”I thought they meant Susan Boyle!
I hope it’s like the opening few minutes of 28 Days Later. Just a completely deserted London, and then one guy in a hospital gown running from a pack of sprinting zombies.
Maybe he could be carrying the torch, and then they can have a bunch of dead(again) zombies in the big flame bit, and he has to set those on fire, since we all know that’s one of the only ways to truly dispose of a zombie.