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5 Films That Might Clue Us Into Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony

Word on the street is that Danny Boyle is the front-runner to direct the opening ceremony of London’s 2012 Summer Olympics. Such an endeavor would easily be the most ambitious undertaking of the 53-year-old Oscar-winner’s career — but that’s not to say he’s not qualified. With the help of 2012’s weird little mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, let’s have a look at five Boyle films that might inform his imminent world-class effort.

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5 Films That Might Clue Us Into Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony

Your 2012 Olympic Mascots: Jolliest. Cyclops. Ever.

Please welcome Wenlock and Mandeville to popcult superstardom, ladies and gents. They’re the newly assigned Olympic mascots for the 2012 games in London, and together, they have enough legs to compete in doubles badminton but only enough eyes for one pair of swim goggles. Adorable! For the more practical Olympic fan, Mandeville can be flipped over and used to open a Corona. The duo’s official back-story — and their other Dreamworks-baiting photos — are as precious, metallic, and weird as you expect.

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Your 2012 Olympic Mascots: Jolliest. Cyclops. Ever.