After directing the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) delivers his first film since 2010's 127 Hours this year with the art heist thriller Trance, which has just received its first trailer.
Based on the 2001 TV movie of the same name by Joe Ahearne (Doctor Who), Trance has been scripted by Ahearne and Boyle's long term collaborator John Hodge (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting), andstars James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City). Check out the official synopsis, and watch the trailer below...
"Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious. In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly - and perhaps shrewdly - to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork. Unable to coerce the painting's location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon's jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated."
Trance is set for a UK release on March 27th, with a North American date yet to be confirmed.
Based on the 2001 TV movie of the same name by Joe Ahearne (Doctor Who), Trance has been scripted by Ahearne and Boyle's long term collaborator John Hodge (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting), andstars James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Rosario Dawson (Sin City). Check out the official synopsis, and watch the trailer below...
"Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious. In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly - and perhaps shrewdly - to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork. Unable to coerce the painting's location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon's jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated."
Trance is set for a UK release on March 27th, with a North American date yet to be confirmed.
