Danny Boyle's Sunshine could have been a trilogy if it hadn't bombed at the box office
The Alex Garland-penned sci-fi thriller starred Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, and Michelle Yeoh.
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There hasn’t been a lot of light for Sunshine fans over the past 18 years, but director Danny Boyle provided a rare, bittersweet glimmer of information today. The extraordinarily intense 2007 sci-fi thriller about an assorted team of physicists trying to save the world by dropping a bomb into the sun could have had two extraordinarily intense sequels, Collider reports. “Originally, when we were doing it, Alex [Garland] wrote two other parts. It was supposed to be a trilogy,” Boyle said. “He only wrote an outline. [But] it was a planetary trilogy. It was to do with the sun itself, with two other stories.”