Hot off the casting of Amber Tamblyn, comes news of up and coming actress Kate Mara, now in talks to join Danny Boyle’s Aron Ralston survival drama, “127 Hours.”
Tamblyn was said to play Ralston’s girlfriend, and THR now reports that Mara will partner with Tamblyn in playing “hikers [Ralston] meets before his ordeal.” So we’re assuming they meet early on and Tamblyn and Ralston become romantically involved from there. As it sounds like Ralston’s relationship with his girlfriend will be played out in flashbacks, we’re also assuming that family members will appear in those flashbacks while the character is dying and trapped under a boulder for five days without food and water.
James Franco will star as the mountaineer, who amputated his own trapped arm and then hiked treacherous terrain in order to get to safety. Boyle had previously revealed his ambitions to have the first half of the film completely dialogue free but with two fairly well known actresses involved so far, as we had guessed, that claim might have been overstated.
Ralston also recently told U.S. television that he was having hallucinations while on the mountain, even seeing a young child whom he believes is the spirit of an upcoming child of his. As Ralston is a consultant on the film, we wouldn’t be surprised to see such occurrences appear in the film as well.
Filming on “127 Hours” will take place this March in Utah and will likely hit this fall with an eye on awards season. While we’re at it does anyone have the script? We’d love to read it.