Tom Hanks has done it. Now it’s time for James Franco to measure up and see if, like Hanks, he could make a first-person cinematic experience compelling enough as the Oscar awards-winning actor did in 2000’s “Cast Away.”

Franco stars in “127 Hours,” an extraordinary story of courage and human will. And because it essentially takes the viewers through the harrowing experience his character goes through, the challenge facing Franco is how he can hold his audience through every emotionally charged second of his ordeal.

In the movie, Franco plays Aron Ralston, a mountain climber-adventurer who ends up trapped in a slot in the Utah canyon. Culled from Ralston’s memoir, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place,” director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) uses his highly subjective camera to take the audience into the drama and, let’s face it, near dementia that his main character goes through.

“I knew I wanted to bring the audience into the canyon with Aron and to not let them go until he himself is released,” Boyle explains. “Of course, I saw this as an extraordinary story of outdoor survival, but I also think there is a whole other layer to this story that will be surprising for people. It’s not simply about how Aron survived, incredible as that is. There is a life force that Aron tapped into that goes way beyond his remarkable courage as an individual, and that’s what we hope to capture on screen. It’s something that binds us all together and when Aron, who seems all alone in this canyon, is pulled back to the idea of community, there is

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