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Danny Boyle Turned Down ‘Alien: Resurrection’ Because ‘I Couldn’t Handle the CG’
Danny Boyle explained why he said no to directing 'Alien: Resurrection' in 1997.
Half a decade before launching his own franchise with “28 Days Later,” Danny Boyle rejected the chance to take on one of the biggest sci-fi film series of all time. Boyle, though, would go on to work more closely with computer-generated effects on films like “Sunshine” from 2007 and “127 Hours” from 2010, the latter arriving after he won Best Picture for “Slumdog Millionaire.” But [writer Simon Beaufoy and I] had a very clear idea of how to make it work, a narrow, focused way that we’d never get out of the canyon.
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