By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 21:00 EST, 18 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 19 March 2013 . Oscar winner Danny Boyle said he turned down a knighthood for his work in masterminding London's £27million Olympic opening ceremony because 'it's just not me' Oscar winner Danny Boyle said he turned down a knighthood for his work in masterminding London’s £27million Olympic opening ceremony because 'it’s just not me'. Boyle, 56, was in line for the New Year Honours list for the highly praised spectacle. But as the ceremony's artistic director, he said he would not have felt right accepting an individual award as a cast of thousands - including the Queen - helped create it. 'It’s just not me. I also thought it was wrong, actually,' he told the Radio Times. 'You can make these speeches about "this is everybody’s work, blah blah blah". 'And you’ve got to mean it, and I did mean it, and it is true, and it’s the only way you can carry on something like that: through the efforts of all the people. 'I don’t know whether I’ll ever get invited back to the Palace.' He and his artistic team sent a 'script' to Buckingham Palace. It was in the hope Queen would agree to a surprise appearance in the much loved James Bond skit, which saw her accompanied to the Games by Britain’s top secret agent. The unexpected scene was one of the quirky highlights of the ceremony. He said: 'Basically we thought there are two scenarios. 'They’ll either agree, provided we do it with a good double (and we promised them that we’d either get a really good actor, a Helen Mirren-style actor, or we’d get a cracking double, so it wasn’t poking fun), or it will be a no.' Mr Boyle, 56, was in line for the New Year Honours list for the highly praised spectacle . A performer playing the role of the Queen parachutes from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. He and his artistic team sent a 'script' to Buckingham Palace in the hope Queen would agree to a surprise appearance . The quintessentially British scenes saw the ceremony widely hailed a resounding success . Actors perform in a sequence to represent the National Health Service (NHS) during the ceremony . Trainspotting, a film about Edinburgh junkies, was one of Boyle’s earliest big-screen hits. He is hoping to get the cast - Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner - back together for the 20th anniversary. He is working on a couple of scripts with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, including a 'loose' first draft based on Irvine Welsh novel Porno, his sequel to Trainspotting. Boyle said: 'I’d love that to happen at some point. To get them back, Likely Lads style, 20 years later, carrying that experience as people and as characters. 'If we can get the script right, I think they’ll do it. But we’ll see.'
Boyle, 56, was in line for New Year Honours list for highly praised spectacle .
He said a cast of thousands helped create it, so accepting 'didn't feel right'
By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 21:00 EST, 18 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:59 EST, 19 March 2013 . Oscar winner Danny Boyle said he turned down a knighthood for his work in masterminding London's £27million Olympic opening ceremony because 'it's just not me' Oscar winner Danny Boyle said he turned down a knighthood for his work in masterminding London’s £27million Olympic opening ceremony because 'it’s just not me'. Boyle, 56, was in line for the New Year Honours list for the highly praised spectacle. But as the ceremony's artistic director, he said he would not have felt right accepting an individual award as a cast of thousands - including the Queen - helped create it. 'It’s just not me. I also thought it was wrong, actually,' he told the Radio Times. 'You can make these speeches about "this is everybody’s work, blah blah blah". 'And you’ve got to mean it, and I did mean it, and it is true, and it’s the only way you can carry on something like that: through the efforts of all the people. 'I don’t know whether I’ll ever get invited back to the Palace.' He and his artistic team sent a 'script' to Buckingham Palace. It was in the hope Queen would agree to a surprise appearance in the much loved James Bond skit, which saw her accompanied to the Games by Britain’s top secret agent. The unexpected scene was one of the quirky highlights of the ceremony. He said: 'Basically we thought there are two scenarios. 'They’ll either agree, provided we do it with a good double (and we promised them that we’d either get a really good actor, a Helen Mirren-style actor, or we’d get a cracking double, so it wasn’t poking fun), or it will be a no.' Mr Boyle, 56, was in line for the New Year Honours list for the highly praised spectacle . A performer playing the role of the Queen parachutes from a helicopter during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. He and his artistic team sent a 'script' to Buckingham Palace in the hope Queen would agree to a surprise appearance . The quintessentially British scenes saw the ceremony widely hailed a resounding success . Actors perform in a sequence to represent the National Health Service (NHS) during the ceremony . Trainspotting, a film about Edinburgh junkies, was one of Boyle’s earliest big-screen hits. He is hoping to get the cast - Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner - back together for the 20th anniversary. He is working on a couple of scripts with Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, including a 'loose' first draft based on Irvine Welsh novel Porno, his sequel to Trainspotting. Boyle said: 'I’d love that to happen at some point. To get them back, Likely Lads style, 20 years later, carrying that experience as people and as characters. 'If we can get the script right, I think they’ll do it. But we’ll see.'
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