“Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle was apparently going to tackle a film that centered around the fairytale-ish character Solomon Grundy that actually began as a D.C. comics zombie/villain character (based on a famous nursery rhyme, “born on a Monday” and “died on a Sunday”). Apparently the idea was shelved because it was percevied as being too close to the idea for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
It’s sort of a crossover with ‘Benjamin Button’ only they’ve done it backwards, so it really fell apart because of the competition from that one,” Boyle told MTV. “It is a wonderful idea, and it’s got really potential still. Maybe. No one knows what ‘Benjamin Button’ is going to be like, so maybe it won’t be similar to that at all. Maybe it will feel really different to that, so [that ‘Solomon’] might come alive again.”
Check out the “I’m Not There”-ness to the casting idea. “’Solomon Grundy’ is a story about a guy who ages seven days. He lives his whole life in seven days. He’s born on a Monday, christened on a Tuesday, grew up on Wednesday, marries on Thursday, took on Friday, and it was like that,” Boyle explained. “And we were going to cast seven different actors to play the part because he starts at zero and ends up at eighty-five.”
We’re glad this sounds nothing like a super-hero or super villain movie. [MTV]