After the success of Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle has once again teamed up with Fox Searchlight Pictures, producer Christian Colson and writer Simon Beaufoy for an action drama called 127 Hours, which is slated for release on 05 November.
127 HOURS is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clemence Poesy), family, and the two hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara) he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.
Boyle adds, “This movie is going to be obsessive, and it will be for obsessives".
In 2003, Ralston was hiking in Blue John Canyon in Utah and suddenly fell about 100 down a canyon hole. His arm was was left pinned to a wall by an 800-pound boulder.
"I threw myself against the boulder, just trying to get my knee onto this boulder, just lifting up, pushing up," Ralston said on an episode of NBC's Dateline, which aired in 2005. "But still, it was - my hand was trapped. And progressively the pain faded as my hand lost sensation. I thought I was going to die."
Ralston told NPR in 2009 that he considered himself a "dead man". He had carved a makeshift tombstone onto the canyon wall, including his name, birthday, the current month and year and the phrase "R.I.P." He also recorded a videotape for his parents and asked that his body be cremated.
But Ralston's will to survive was stronger. He drank his own urine to stay hydrated and thought about amputating his arm with a pocketknife. After about five days, he bent his trapped arm down using the weight of his body, snapped the bones in half and cut off the arm.
He then wrapped his bleeding limb with a tourniquet made out of the insulation from his backpack, rappelled out of the canyon hole and hiked several miles for about four hours, CNN said. Ralston then ran into a group of hikers, who helped him reach rescue workers who were searcing for him.
"The moment when I figure out how I could get free, it was the best idea and the most beautiful experience I will ever have in my life that it was all euphoria and not a bit of horror," he told NPR. "It was having my life back after being dead."
In the movie, Ralston recalls friends, family and lovers as he remains trapped. The movie stars Clemence Poesy, a French actress who played Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter movies and Amber Tamblyn, formerly of the series Joan of Arcadia who is set to join the show House next season.
Franco, a 32-year-old California native, recently starred in the Julia Roberts film Eat Pray Love and played Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man movies.
He also portrays a serial killer on the soap opera General Hospital and recently filmed the movie Rise of the Apes, a prequel to the Planet of the Apes movies series. The film also stars Freida Pinto, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire, John Lithgow and Harry Potter actor Tom Felton.
Franco recently studied at Columbia University and New York University. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in English and film studies at Yale and said in July he plans to teach at the university as well.
MPAA Rating: R
Official Site: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/127hours/
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Clemence Poesy, Darin Southam, Fenton Quinn, James Franco, Kate Burton, Kate Mara, Lizzy Caplan, Norman Lehnert
Genre: Drama
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