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Searchlight and Boyle Have ‘127’ Hours To Go

If you’re into dull knifes and further endurance tests, then you might want to seek out Danny Boyle’s next project which comes with the title/amount of time mountaineer Aron Ralston’s right forearm was pinned under a boulder.

Not sure about you cinephiles out there, but I feel as if Kevin MacDonald’s Touching the Void said everything that had to be said on why ice/rock climbing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But if you’re into dull knifes and further endurance tests, then you might want to seek out Danny Boyle’s next project which comes with the title/amount of time mountaineer Aron Ralston’s right forearm was pinned under a boulder.

127 Hours will begin production shortly for a late 2010 release by Fox Searchlight who is financing the project with Pathe. Simon Beaufoy should take over from the treatment written by Boyle. Those following the project’s development at ThePlaylist know that Ryan Gosling has been mentioned as the possible candidate to play Ralston. We want to see cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle join the pic as well.

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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