Boyle plans film on mountaineer's ordeal

Danny Boyle is reportedly preparing to start production on a film based on the experiences of renowned mountaineer Aron Ralston.

The Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire said that work on 127 Hours will get underway in March.

Ralston cut off his right arm after he was pinned down by a half-ton boulder at the bottom of a remote canyon in 2003. He later wrote a book about his ordeal, Between A Rock And A Hard Place.

Filming will take place in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon, reports the Sunday Mirror.