Danny Boyle Says "Sunshine" Will Be His Last Science Fiction Film

Danny Boyle, the 50-year old English director of "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later," has a new film opening this Friday called "Sunshine." It's set 50 years in the future: the sun is near death, and so is everything on Earth; a crew of eight men and women (including actors Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh) attempt to deliver a device to the sun that will reinvigorate it, but they find their sanity waning as they get further and further from their own planet. This is Boyle's first venture into science fiction, and although the few reviews it's received so far have been largely positive, he claims it will be his last as well. "They [science fiction films] are really tough, they're very tough. I would recommend it to everybody. You should do one. But nobody does more than one -- unless they're doing a 'Stars Wars' or something like that -- no director goes back into space." What links "Sunshine" to Boyle's previous work is its subject of people operating under extreme circumstances.