Michael Fassbender in talks for Danny Boyle's heist film, Trance

When we had a chance to hang out with Danny Boyle last year before the DC premier of 127 Hours, the director talked about how he wouldn't be doing much of anything this year or the next. At leas not on the big screen. He had some pretty good reasons. He'd be helming a stage interpretation of Frankenstein for a good part of this year, and then after that he had to start gearing up for the 2012 Olympics in London, which he's serving as a creative director on. So he's got a decent excuse. Then came the surprising word that Boyle would squeeze in one quick film before the Olympics, and that would be the art heist flick, Trance. Good news? Well yes, yes, and no.

THR reports that Michael Fassbender is in talks to join the film, which is absolutely fantastic news. They say Fassbender would play "An assistant at an auction house masterminds the heist and teams up with a gang of thieves, but suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. He is the only one who knows where the painting’s location is and after his continued failure to remember, the gang begins to suspect duplicity on his part and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain." Weird.  Trance is remake of a 2001 British TV movie by Joe Ahearne.

So it's great that we'll get to see more of Boyle sooner than we thought, and it's obviously a good thing if Fassbender signs on. You can already count me in for this one, because we haven't seen Boyle do this type of flick in years. The only thing that sucks is that the film will be shot this fall, but it won't be edited or finished until after the Olympics. So we probably won't see it until 2013.