We reported a few days ago that Danny Boyle has plans to make one more film before he got to work planning and directing the opening for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. That film, titled Trance, will be shot later this year and then put on hold while the director works on the Olympics, then he will return to the film in August of 2012 to edit it down.
Since Boyle is working on a tight schedule, he’s going ahead with casting as fast as he can. THR reports Michael Fassbender has emerged as the frontrunner for the lead role. Hit the jump to find out what this film is all about and what part Fassbender might play.
Trance is a remake of a 2003 British movie directed by Joe Ahearne. The story centers around an art heist at an auction house. An assistant who works at the auction house plans the heist and hires some thieves to help him pull it off. But somewhere along the way, the assistant gets hit on the head and later wakes up suffering from amnesia. He’s the only person who knows where the painting is hidden, but he can’t remember its location. The hired thieves begin to think he’s playing them all for fools and hire a hypnotist who puts the assistant in a trance to get into his brain.
If Fassbender decides to take the role, he will play the leader amongst the gang of thieves. Trance is being called a very dark, edgy thriller and should remind us all of Boyle’s previous works like Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.
Fassbender will next be seen in this summer’s X-Men: First Class and is currently working on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
