James McAvoy On The Set Of Danny Boyle's Trance

James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson & Vincent Cassel Join Danny Boyle's Trance

Deadline confirms that James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel have joined Danny Boyle's Trance. The film is expected to be as dark as Boyle's previous films such as Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. McAvoy will play the lead which Michael Fassbender originally tested for.

"An assistant at an auction house masterminds the heist and teams up with a gang of thieves, but suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. He is the only one who knows where the painting’s location is and after his continued failure to remember, the gang begins to suspect duplicity on his part and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain." 

Michael Fassbender In Talks For Danny Boyle's Trance

HollywoodReporter says that Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, X-Men First Class, Prometheus) is in talks to play a gang leader in Danny Boyle's art heist dark thriller Trance. The film is a throwback to Boyle's early films Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

"An assistant at an auction house masterminds the heist and teams up with a gang of thieves, but suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. He is the only one who knows where the painting’s location is and after his continued failure to remember, the gang begins to suspect duplicity on his part and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain."

Danny Boyle's Next Film Will Be "Trance" Coming 2013

Deadline reports that Danny Boyle will make a movie before starting work on London's Summer Olympics. Trance is a dark sexy thriller in the vain of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. It will focus on an art heist that goes wrong and will start shooting this fall. Yet he's is just shooting then focusing on the Olympics then picking up on the post-production in August for a March 2013 release date.