14 DAY TRIAL // Now that Sam Mendes has dropped out of the James Bond franchise after “Skyfall,” speculation is ripe on who could possibly replace him. Danny Boyle is a favorite with fans and critics but, as it happens, big-budget films like this one are simply not his cup of tea.
Boyle was linked to Bond since before Mendes agreed to do “Skyfall” but he never even came close to accepting, he tells The Playlist in a new interview.
He did, however, come pretty close to doing the fourth “Alien” movie.
“I much prefer to have a ceiling. A ceiling that is limiting us and you try and break through. We want our films to look like $100 million [€76.5 million] dollars, that’s for sure,” Boyle says.
“And we want them to sound like $200 million [€153.1 million]. But you try and do that with that cap on them. And that’s where the energy, belief and evangelical nature of the process comes from,” he adds.
It’s not that he’s dissing big-budget productions (“I love watching those movies, I’m a big fan”), just that, where he’s concerned, he simply can’t deliver his best when he’s working on one.