If a movie does well, it reaps shedloads of benefits for its director, producers and actors. Slumdog Millionaire is no exception.
It's been nominated for every award, won most of the awards and will probably win more awards in a special Slumdog Millionaire award ceremony in April.
Because the film is literally about a young boy from the Mumbai slums who becomes a millionaire, a quick witted person has decided to make Dev Patel go on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for real. If film stars are getting their performances turned into reality, can we sort organise a private boating holiday for Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio?
In a move to make you all go ?aww that's nice?, Dev Patel and Danny Boyle will be going on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire to raise the funds for charity. To keep everything neatly tied together with the film’s theme, any money won will be donated to the Railway Children charity, an organisation that aims to help youngsters who live on the streets all over the world.
A spokesperson who works for Celador, the production company who makes Who Wants To Be A Millionaire said:
?We were approached by Railway Children about doing the special ? and we think it would be fantastic. Danny and Dev would play together, as with all our celebrity specials, but filming depends on their availability.?
With Slumdog Millionaire drawing on the life experiences of the main character Jamal to win the top prize, we can assume that the same will happen to Dev Patel and Danny Boyle.
The two hail from totally different backgrounds. One is a director and the other is an actor who stars in wacky dramas about teenage life. But there is one thing that links them together. Drugs! Hooray for drugs indeed, as they could help tons of kids who are in poverty.
Remember the ace drug film Trainspotting? Danny Boyle was the man who directed that – and in Skins, Dev Patel played a teenager who took drugs, partied and said rude word like ‘shitty Mcfuck poo’. Combining their knowledge of drugs from their own projects, they can answer questions like this:
For ?32,000, what is the best material for smoking heroin? A) Your mum’s new table cloth B) Foil C) Page 666 of The Bible or D) Bubble wrap.
As per every other 24,635 episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Chris Tarrant can sit in his chair looking like a smug twit as Danny and Dev frantically wrack their brains for the right answer.
Hooray for it being for charity and all that. The higher powers connected to Slumdog Millionaire have been accused of not paying the street kids of Mumbai and leaving them in shit-infested poverty. Usually, we urge the smug middle-class housewife contestants to balls up their ?500,000 question. But this time it could actually help kids out. Which of course is a good thing. See, we do have that thing called a ‘conscience’. Potentially seeing Dev and Danny mess up and loose a great deal of money would probably sour proceedings quite substantially.
Though they could always melt down one of their BAFTAs/Oscars. We?d at least pitch in and give ?50. It would be nice to be known as the ‘best film award in 2008’ instead of ‘a lazy good for nothing with rubbish hair.’
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