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From the official LFF press release:
London – Wednesday 3 September: The Closing Night Gala of The Times
BFI 52nd London Film Festival will be the European Premiere of Danny
Boyle’s SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. The festival opens with Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon.
SLUMDOG
MILLIONAIRE is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums
of Mumbai, who finds himself just one question away from winning a
staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire? Arrested on suspicion of cheating, Jamal tells the
police the incredible story of his life on the streets, and of the girl he
loved and lost. But what is a kid with no interest in money doing on the show?
And how does he know all the answers? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the
final question, the police and sixty million viewers are about to find out … Dev Patel (Skins) stars alongside
an all-Indian cast including Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Madhur
Mittal and Freida Pinto in this uplifting drama set and shot in
India.
SLUMDOG
MILLIONAIRE was adapted for the screen by Oscar-winning writer Simon
Beaufoy (THE FULL MONTY) from the bestselling novel Q and A by Vikas
Swarup. The film was produced by Christian Colson and Executive Producers
Tessa Ross and Paul Smith, with cinematography from Boyle's
regular collaborator Anthony Dod Mantle (28 DAYS LATER). Pathé
Distribution will release the Film4 funded film in the UK in early 2009 and
Pathé International is handling international sales.
Danny
Boyle will also give a career interview as part of the Tiscali Screen Talks
series.
Sandra
Hebron,
the Festival's Artistic Director: "We're thrilled to be closing our
Festival with this latest film from one of the UK's most talented and versatile
directors. Pulling together a wealth of talent from two continents to tell this
moving and truly contemporary tale, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE will bring this year's
Festival to a vibrant and cheering close."
On
having his film invited to close the London Film Festival, Danny Boyle
comments: "I am delighted that the film will receive its European premiere at
the London Film Festival. I hope that Londoners will respond to this story
about another great megatropolis - Mumbai, "the Maximum City".'
The full programme for The Times
BFI 52nd London Film Festival will be announced next Wednesday 10
September.
The Festival runs from 15-30
October 2008
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