The last film Danny Boyle directed was 2019’s “Yesterday,” a sweet but slight Beatles-themed romcom that felt like an anomaly within Boyle’s usually grim filmography.
After all, this is the man who gave us darker fare such as “28 Days Later,” “Trainspotting,” “127 Hours,” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Well, Boyle is back and teaming up with Searchlight Pictures to write and direct their new drama, “Antarctica”. The film, which is based on a true story, will start production in November. Here’s the synopsis [via Production Weekly]:
On December 26, 2018, American Colin O’Brady completed a 54-day expedition across Antarctica, covering over 930 miles while hauling a 400-pound sled packed with all of his food and survival gear. O’Brady faced an ungodly windchill, the threat of unseen crevasses and utter isolation. In a head to head competition mirroring the race to the South Pole between Amundsen and Scott in 1911, O’Brady flew in the same Twin Otter aircraft with veteran polar explorer Captain Louis Rudd to ski from the Hercules Inlet to the start of the Ross Ice Shelf in a race to the record books. O’Brady finished two and a half days before Rudd, claiming a new world record, “The Impossible First,” to be the first person ever to cross Antarctica alone, with no support and no assistance.