Danny Boyle’s Summer Olympics Inspiration: ‘Frankenstein’ (Yes, Really)

"Slumdog Millionaire" director Danny Boyle says the opening ceremony will be "like a cauldron"

Danny Boyle might have created a monster with this summer's Olympic Games.

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"Slumdog Millionaire" director Boyle, who was tapped as the Artistic Director for the opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games, tells Vogue that he was inspired by Mary Shelley's classic horror novel "Frankenstein" when planning the show.

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"(There is) quite a lot of Frankenstein in the show," Boyle told the magazine (via the Huffington Post). "I mean, we don't reanimate dead creatures, but we did use Frankenstein as a dry run for a lot of ideas for this."

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