Radical idea

[alextheman]

I’m working on a completely reimagined version of 127 hours instead of being a drama movie it’s going to be a horror-thriller. I’m getting to the end of the “script” and I feel like the real life ending and the ending of the movie doesn’t work with the Hitchcockian tone I’m trying to set up. I know it’s a real story but I wonder if it’s cool to have the movie end in an alternate way different than reality where the authorities find the body. I’ve always been fascinated by Aron Ralston and Blue John Canyon and I have had a fear of being trapped ever since I was a kid locked in the bathroom for 1 hour. I have extreme clastrophobia and I really want this to be a claustrophobic Hitchcockian movie that isn’t necessarily true to the true story but uses the true story to tell a horror story.

[apj]

Don't worry about staying close to Ralston's true story then. Personally, I thought 127 Hours was ridiculously boring. I'd be far more interested in a thriller or horror film about a hiker trapped in the desert than watch another snooze-fest about a guy with his arm stuck under a rock. Use the concept of a guy trapped/lost in the desert and build the horror from there. Tons of scary shit could go down in the desert, far scarier things than a big rock.