You’ll recall that it’s James Franco, not Ryan Gosling as once rumored, who took the lead role in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours,” the true story about mountain climber Aron Ralston who was trapped on a hiking trip by a boulder and was forced to amputate the bottom half of his own arm in order to survive.
That Fox Searchlight project is scheduled to start filming in March in Utah. It’s basically a one-man show and may have incredibly long stretches with no dialogue of Franco alone on a mountain, but there are a few other people in the story, as in Ralston’s girlfriend and the family that finds him once he’s finally come down from the mountain (not a spoiler, you read the news and now how this famous incident went).
Well, could the girlfriend be played by Katie Featherston, the lead female in Oren Peli’s “Paranormal Activity”? This morning she tweeted that she had an audition with Danny Boyle (via /Film). There’s no other details and it’s just audition, surely countless other people will do the same for the role, but it’s interesting to note.
Of course what role she’ll play and if it’s the girlfriend is total speculation on our part, we don’t know the story that well, but Ralston is married so presumably they were together when his 2003 accident happened? Not sure, but we’ll keep an eye on this one though and see where it goes.
