
15 seconds for Ponte
Posted by Don Packett under Uncategorized on March 5 2007 at 12:06 PM
Or perhaps about 2 hours or so, as British director Danny Boyle (wiki) has now eyed out the once considered super dodgy but is now really looking up after new management Ponte City for his next movie, a thriller loosely based on Norman Ohler’s novel Stadt des Goldes (’City of Gold’ – the third of a metropolis-based series).
“He tells the story of the young German journalist named Kraner who once again meets, in Johannesburg, the black South African Lucy who, at the end of Apartheid, was arrested in the USA as a drug smuggler. After five years in prison, Lucy’s story continues with her deportation from the USA and her return to Johannesburg where she starts searching for the person who gave her the job at the time. ‘Stadt des Goldes’ is an urban adventure novel and at the same time an exciting portrait of a city on the edge of social abyss.”
From the director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and more, this can only prove to be a killer flick, can’t wait.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I’m not sure if ‘Stadt des Goldes’ is the same book – it certainly sounds like it – but a few months ago, I blogged about a book I’d read by the same author called ‘Ponte City.’ It was brilliant and brutal.
If the book isn’t the same as ‘Ponte City,’ I’d love to get my hands on it. I’m fascinated by that building.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:27 am
It’s definitely the same book.
A movie would be fantastic.