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		</div><p>Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has said he owes “a great deal” to Edinburgh as he brought his latest picture to the city’s annual celebration of film.</p>
<p>The Scottish premiere of his new Beatles movie, Yesterday, took place on the second day of the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).</p>
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<p>It marked a return to the capital for the Lancashire-born director who made a name for himself early on in his career with the Edinburgh-set Shallow Grave and Trainspotting films in the mid-1990s.</p>
<p>He returned to the city to make the 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting.</p>
<p>Boyle said he is surprised that more films are not shot in the area.</p>
<p>Speaking on the red carpet at the Vue Omni cinema, he told Press Association Scotland: “It’s lovely to be back in Edinburgh, a very great city to be back in.</p>
<p>“I owe a great deal to this city in so many ways.</p>
<p>“There’s a great joke at the end of this film that will be particularly appreciated by people from Edinburgh. We sort of did it for Edinburgh, really.</p>
<p>“In the beginning of my career I made two films here, well certainly between here and Glasgow, but they were both set here – Shallow Grave and Trainspotting – and then we returned to make another Trainspotting film.</p>
<p>“It’s an amazing city and still there’s not enough films made here. It’s a very cinematic city and I’m surprised not more films are made here. I think you’ll find that will be the case soon.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_134455" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-134455" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-134455" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/09F9D451-75A8-4508-9436-3FCFB5CEC263.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="338" data-wp-pid="134455" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-134455" class="wp-caption-text">Boyle was the star on the red carpet at Vue Omni</figcaption></figure>
<p>Boyle’s new film is a musical comedy from a script by Richard Curtis, the screenwriter behind such hits as Four Weddings And A Funeral and Notting Hill.</p>
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<p>Yesterday sees Himesh Patel star as a struggling singer-songwriter who has an accident during a mysterious global blackout and wakes to a world where the Beatles never existed.</p>
<p>“We end up featuring 17 of the (Beatles’) songs in the film,” Boyle said.</p>
<p>“It’s a love story as well, not just to the music of the Beatles, but between him and his best friend Ellie, played by Lily James.</p>
<p>“It’s a beautiful mixture of those two love letters, one to the Beatles and one to his childhood sweetheart, really.</p>
<p>“Richard Curtis is a massive Beatles fan. I’m a big admirer of them but I’m not a fanatic, I don’t know absolutely everything about them.</p>
<p>“I felt just a wonderful pleasure at having a soundtrack dictated for you before you began the film.</p>
<p>“It wasn’t particular songs, you could use any of the songs up to the limit of 18. Just having that body of work as something you were going to build a film around was very exciting.”</p>
<p>The EIFF got under way on Wednesday evening with the opening gala screening of the Highlands-set Boyz In The Wood.</p>
<p>In total, this year’s festival is screening 121 new features from 42 countries, including 18 feature film world premieres and 78 UK premieres.</p>
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