Danny Boyle Admits He Couldn't Make 'slumdog Millionaire' Today Because Of Cultural Appropriation Concerns

English head Danny Boyle said that he would not nonstop "Slumdog Millionaire" if it was made coming owed to "cultural appropriation" and would alternatively person a "young Indian filmmaker" make it instead.

"We wouldn’t beryllium capable to make that now. And that’s really it should be. It’s clip to bespeak connected each that. We person to look astatine nan taste baggage we transportation and nan people that we’ve near connected nan world... At nan clip it felt radical," Boyle told The Guardian.

Danny Boyle said connected Friday that he would not nonstop "Slumdog Millionaire" coming owed to "cultural appropriation."

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Set successful India, nan movie tells nan communicative of Jamal, a young "slumdog" who's been selected to look connected nan country's type of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", and hopes to besides find his puerility mislaid love, Latika. Throughout his appearance, events from his tumultuous life are shown successful flashback and thief him reply nan questions.

Released successful 2008, "Slumdog Millionaire" was a deed pinch audiences and critics, grossing astir $380 cardinal connected a $15 cardinal fund and winning 8 Oscars, including Best Picture and Director for Boyle.

A resident of Dharavi, India hits a poster of nan formed of nan movie "Slumdog Millionaire" pinch a slipper during a protestation against nan film's producers connected February 3, 2009, successful Mumbai, India. (Photo by Kunal Patil/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) (Getty)

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However, contempt its success, nan movie was controversial for appearing to utilization Indian civilization and represent stereotypes of India from a occidental perspective. Some Indian critics enjoyed nan movie, but immoderate Indian artists were underwhelmed, claiming it was "saturated pinch stereotyped images of India," TIME mag reported.

Boyle added that while nan movie was successful accumulation complete 15 years ago, he was delicate to nan exploitative implications of making nan movie arsenic a foreigner then.

"We made nan determination that only a fistful of america would spell to Mumbai. We’d activity pinch a large Indian unit and effort to make a movie wrong nan culture. But you’re still an outsider. It’s still a flawed method. That benignant of taste appropriation mightiness beryllium sanctioned astatine definite times," Boyle told The Guardian.

He went connected to say, "But astatine different times it cannot be. I mean, I’m proud of nan film, but you wouldn’t moreover contemplate doing thing for illustration that today. It wouldn’t moreover get financed. Even if I was involved, I’d beryllium looking for a young Indian filmmaker to sprout it."

Cast of "Slumdog Millionaire" Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Dev Patel and head Danny Boyle astatine nan 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held astatine nan Shrine Auditorium connected January 25, 2009, successful Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage) (Getty)

Boyle's different notable movies see "Trainspotting," "Steve Jobs," "127 Hours" and nan "28 Days Later" scary series. The latest, "28 Years Later", was released connected Friday.

Boyle nor his representatives instantly responded to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

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