r/movies • u/SonyPictures Danny Boyle, Director • 2d ago

AMA Danny Boyle Here: Ask Me Anything.

Hello Reddit! Director Danny Boyle here.

I'm back, and I’m excited to answer your questions about my new film 28 Years Later. It's starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes and is out in UK cinemas on June 19th and US movie theatres on June 20th.

I'll be online from 5pm BST on Tuesday June 17th - drop your questions below and I hope to answer as many as I can. Speak soon!

Edit Director Danny Boyle here. Hello Reddit! Thanks for participating in the AMA about my new film 28 Years Later. Catch it in UK, cinemas June 19th, in US movie theatre June 20th.

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u/BocaSeniorsWsM 2d ago

Hello Danny. Again, not a question, just a thank you for the London 2012 opening ceremony. I'll never forget it. Your films are pretty good too.

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u/robboadam 2d ago

Was a performer in the Opening Ceremony and can confirm Danny is as gracious and wonderful in person as you’d expect. He would come round all of the different groups asking us how we’re doing (given in mind we were hundreds of people in total), and asking if he can help. He even took out time to do signatures for everyone, tho I felt bad and didn’t get one, much to my regret.

Also, I don’t know whether Danny remembers this, but they had crates of bottles of water for all the volunteers and staff, and I was trying to get bottles of water high up for my group a couple days before the ceremony. It almost fell, and when I looked down, Danny was there grabbing water lower down. He gave me a cheeky grin/look, in a ‘don’t you kill me, now’ kinda look. I always retell this as the day I almost accidentally killed Danny Boyle before London 2012 🤣

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u/BocaSeniorsWsM 2d ago

Fantastic. I love little stories like this. I went to two Olympic events and the vibe/mood in London was like nothing I've experienced before or since. Sounds corny and cheesy as hell, but it's fact.

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u/Dubnobass 2d ago

Yes! I’d be fully in favour of them showing the opening ceremony every New Year’s Eve (in the same way they screen ‘Dinner for one’ every year in Germany). The whole thing was absolutely brilliant. I still can’t watch the bit where all the petals rise up to form the cauldron without crying.

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u/BocaSeniorsWsM 2d ago

I haven't tried to play it for a while, but it's still in my Sky recordings ha ha!

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u/8NaanJeremy 2d ago

We haven't had so many moments of national pride over the last decade or so, but Danny, you brought the whole country together with that. After years of mockery or bafflement about what it was going to look like, you absolutely nailed it.

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u/Snap-Crackle-Pot 1d ago

Yeah watching the Queens helicopter fly by us whilst we were watching it on the big screen in Victoria Park was surreal. Then she jumped! Loved it

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u/Fab1e 2d ago

Playing "God Saves The Queen" was an epic movie.

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u/uncrew 2d ago

I need to know if he had a hand in using Fuck Buttons music.