Thanks to the reader who sent us this excellent scan. It’s a first look at James Franco in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” from the newest issue of EW.
EW says when Boyle first heard about the story of Aaron Ralston that spawned this movie — about an American mountain climber who became trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and the desperate measures he took in order to survive –he envisioned “an action movie where the hero can’t move.”
The “Slumdog Millionaire” director suggests a film that will be filled with tense desperation. “This movie is going to be obsessive, and it will be for obsessives,” Boyle told EW. “You will want him to cut off his arm by the end.”
The cast that includes Amber Tamblyn, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara and Clémence Poésy. Rather ambitiously, the film also features work from two cinematographers in Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak and will predominantly follow Ralston through first-person POV dialogue, a narrative tool that should provide for a harrowing, claustrophobic cinematic experience.
Will the film premiere at the Toronto Film Festival as THR suggested this week? Considering a few of us will be in attendance, we sure hope so. Either way the film comes out November 5 in the U.S. and frankly, we can’t wait.