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With Sunshine about to hit the screens, Danny Boyle is looking towards his next project. According to Variety (via), this will be Ponte Tower, a thriller set in the 54-storey cylindrical Ponte Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This was considered one of the city’s most desirable addresses and a powerful symbol of white affluence under apartheid when it was built in 1975, but after the end of apartheid many gangs moved into the building and it had become extremely unsafe.

The film will be loosely based on a book by German novelist Norman Ohler about a girl from Soweto who moves to Ponte Tower at the end of apartheid and comes under the control of a charming druglord.

Boyle will be travelling to South Africa shortly to develop the project which will be a UK/South Africa co-production.

Consider my interest well and truly piqued.

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