Danny Boyle wants Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson in his next film!

The Playlist has the details:

If there was every any doubt, after work like “Shallow Grave,” “Trainspotting” and “Sunshine,”Danny Boyle has firmly planted his feet among the A-list of directors: he’s had two Best Picture nominees in a row, with the first of them, “Slumdog Millionaire” winning a Best Director Oscar; he’s scored a big stage hit in “Frankenstein”; and he’s been handed the responsibility for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. While the latter will take up most of Boyle’s next year, he’s not going to be totally absent from the film world; it was announced a few months ago that he’s planning a new heist thriller, “Trance,” a remake of the 2001 British TV movie.

Michael Fassbender might star in Danny Boyle's next project...

...according to The Playlist:

Merely days after the surprise announcement of Danny Boyle‘s next directorial effort “Trance,” comes word that Irish-German thespian Michael Fassbender is now in talks to star. While details were scarce initially the picture has now been revealed as the remake of a 2003 British telemovie of the same name written and directed by Joe Ahearne.

The “edgy art-heist thriller” will follow the story of an assistant at an auction house who masterminds a heist and teams up with a gang of thieves only to suffer a blow to the head and wake up with amnesia. As the only person who knew the location of the stolen painting, the assistant is then subjected to analysis from a hypnotist as the gang begin to suspect duplicity. Fassbender is eyeing the role of the shady gang leader who partners with the assistant.

Danny Boyle sets up his next project!

Via Deadline:

Director Danny Boyle will follow his Oscar-nominated 127 Hours with Trance, a thriller that will shoot in London this September. I'm told it's an art heist gone wrong, and it's got the dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of Boyle films like Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. The film reunites Boyle with his 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire producing partner Christian Colson, and they are in talks with Fox Searchlight and Pathe for funding and worldwide distribution. It wasn't clear whether Boyle would make a film before directing the opening ceremonies of next summer's Olympics Games in London. Here's how he'll handle it. The film will be shot in September--Boyle and Colson have begun talking up British and U.S. talent--and after the film's shooting is completed, Boyle will put it on a shelf. He'll devote himself exclusively to the Olympics beginning next January. Next August, he'll return to the film, and cut it with the anticipation that Trance will be ready for theatrical distribution in March, 2013. The film will be in the mid teen-budget range, which has proven to be Boyle's wheelhouse. Slumdog Millionaire cost $15 million, while 127 Hours cost $18 million. Those films grossed $450 million or so between them. Boyle's repped by WME and UK-based Independent Talent.

-Joey's Two Cents: It's an interesting way of going about squeezing in a film before the Olympics, I must say...thoughts?