The newest issue of Entertainment Weekly has the first pictures of James Franco as mountain climber Aaron Ralston in Danny Boyle‘s 127 Hours. The Playlist was able to get some scans which you can check out below, including some great quotes from the article. The film also stars Amber Tamblyn, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara and Clémence Poésy.
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 suggest 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 off by the end.”
Fox Searchlight is releasing the film on November 5 in the U.S. and it may possibly premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.