By Russ Fischer/June 11, 2009 11:56 pm EST
Unfortunately, we might only expect one film out of this deal. Boyle isn’t the fastest director. He averages one film every two years. Though if he doesn’t have to worry about pulling together financing until 2012, perhaps he can make the scant one year between Sunshine and Slumdog seem like a regular thing rather than anomaly.
Does this mean we’ll see Maximum City, another film set in India which Boyle is reportedly circling, any time soon? Maybe not, going on the LA Times reporting of this story. The paper says that Boyle is looking at a film about mountain climber Aron Ralston, who in 2003 self-amputated part of his arm after he was pinned by a boulder for five days. Think that doesn’t sound like a viable film concept? Check out Ralston’s own amazing and horrific account of the amputation below.
I like the idea of that movie quite a lot. Just think about Boyle using his current cred to make a film about one man trapped in the middle of nowhere. (Likely bolstered by flashbacks, hallucinations and more, but still.)
