{"id":4307,"date":"2009-01-08T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2009-07-08T23:24:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:24:48","slug":"interview-danny-boyle-on-slumdog-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/08\/interview-danny-boyle-on-slumdog-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Danny Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000965\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4308\" title=\"Danny Boyle directing Slumdog Millionaire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/danny-boyle-directing-slumdog-millionaire.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Boyle directing Slumdog Millionaire\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000965\/\">Danny Boyle<\/a><\/strong> is the director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1010048\/\">Slumdog Millionaire<\/a><\/strong>, a new film out in the UK this week about a young street kid\u00a0(<a title=\"Dev Patel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dev_Patel\">Dev Patel<\/a>) who ends up on the Indian version of\u00a0<a title=\"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire%3F\">Who Wants to Be a Millionaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0064479\/\">Simon Beaufoy<\/a> from the novel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Q_and_A\">Q and A<\/a> by\u00a0<a title=\"Vikas Swarup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vikas_Swarup\">Vikas Swarup<\/a>, it deservedly received\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/daily.greencine.com\/archives\/006601.html\">a lot of buzz<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117938135.html?categoryid=2863&amp;cs=1\">acclaim<\/a> at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telluridefilmfestival.com\/\">Telluride<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LTr2DN3gdk8\">Toronto<\/a> film festivals\u00a0and is widely considered a frontrunner for BAFTA and Oscar consideration.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Danny in London recently about the film and we discussed: the story, filming in Mumbai, using digital cameras, the Indian actors he worked with and the interesting backstory of how the film got financed and released.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Danny_Boyle_on_Slumdog_Millionaire.mp3]\n<p>You can download this\u00a0interview\u00a0as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em><\/strong><em> is out at UK cinemas from Friday 9th January<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Danny_Boyle_on_Slumdog_Millionaire.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000965\/\">Danny Boyle<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slumdogmillionairemovie.co.uk\/\">Official UK site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/slumdogmillionaire\">More reviews of Slumdog Millionaire at Metacritic<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/30\/the-best-films-of-2008\/\">Read our selection of the best films of 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Image:\u00a0Ishika Mohan \/\u00a0Pathe \/\u00a0TM and \u00a9 2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Boyle speaks to me about Slumdog Millionaire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[468,138,2796,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}