Danny Boyle Partners With Fox Searchlight on 127 Hours
Fox Searchlight and Danny Boyle are teaming up to make 127 Hours. The film will
Boyle will be directing this film which should go into production in late 2010. At present the director has written a treatment, and writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is in talks to write the script.
Part of Ralston’s story is that his right forearm was pinned for nearly five days under a boulder while on a climb in Utah in May 2003. At this point he used a dull knife to amputate the limb, and then scaled a 65-foot sheer wall and hiked out before running into a family that provided him with water and food. Eventually he was rescued by helicopter.
If you look at the films Boyle has done they have always been stories that differ from one another but the one thing they have in common is that have always explored something on the human condition. 127 Hours is nothing short of that. I remember when this story came out and how unbelievably touching it was. I can’t imagine having to amputate any part of my body let alone with a pocket knife. Truly it is a gripping tale of survival and if anyone can make a film about it that is Boyle. I smell another Oscar if its done right.
Currently, Boyle is trying to cast the part of Ralston.
