USA Today has published a sneak peek at director Danny Boyle’s new thriller, Trance, starring James McAvoy (upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Rosario Dawson (upcoming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For).
The 2013 film is about an art heist gone wrong and is rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence, some grisly images, and language.
Boyle gave the newspaper more details: “It begins like that. But it takes the idea of a stolen painting and develops into something sleeker and more psychological, with twists and turns… I wanted to do an updated noir, give it a contemporary spin in terms of emotion. Noir is usually cold. I wanted it to be more emotionally charged. It’s the first time I put a woman at the heart of a movie.”
He added that, much like his 1994 film Shallow Grave, the characters will operate inside their own bubble. “Their only point of reference is to each other. There are no outsiders.”
