I don't know what the state of play is with this now but the idea was banded about over 18 months ago to turn it into a film. A while back I had some tea with a well known top notch ex-champion legend of a runner who told me that he was approached by some guy who asked if he could bring this actor to get some ideas and tips in order to play him in the film (presumably he would be filmed running over the fells).

This runner said "well you'll have to come when the weather is really bad or otherwise i need to get on with me work!!

Apparently, they didn't bother coming.

If you ask me, this would be the death of fell running as we used to know it when we were all from an outdoors/mountaineering background and race fields were small. It will glamourise it too much.

SM