As though punishing me for the earlier trauma of The Intruder, Q opted to put on this terrifying high wire act. Feeling virusy, our palms were covered in sweat right from the off, despite the certain knowledge it's all green screen. Only... (and I'm glad I didn't know this at the time).. it isn't. They did actually build (two) towers in the desert and the girls did all their own stunts, obviously with safety precautions that were then CGIed out (more here). It's a sort of earth-based Gravity, funnily enough, (though not of course in that film's league) right down to the appearance of a person who shouldn't be there.
Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) is dragged up an abandoned and decaying radio mast by her mad friend Shiloh (Virginia Gardner) and they get stuck. No one knows they're there, despite the fact that Shiloh must have posted her plans to the 60,000 followers she claims she has and has uploaded photos of her location on the ground. (You would have thought therefore her radio silence would have alerted them to the problem). I liked the twist of the couple they finally manage to alert on the ground who promptly steal their car. Also the irony there's no phone signal up there. (The script is by Mann and Jonathan Frank.)
Also you would have thought they would have frozen to death overnight.
I sincerely hoped that Becky would have used the Tintin tactic (can't remember which adventure) of grabbing on to the vulture's feet, forcing it to have flown down to get rid of her weight. But sadly, it was not to be.
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Mann is British, originally from County Durham.
I subsequently read 'Prisoners of the Sun', where Tintin does this:
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