Fall isn't based on a true story – but is inspired by a real-life tower (2024)

Fall has been a big hit on Netflix — and once viewers have gotten over their newfound fear of heights, they've been wondering whether the story actually happened for real.

The high-concept thriller sees two friends stranded 2,000 feet up an abandoned radio tower in the middle of the desert. It seems an unlikely story, but they do say that truth is stranger than fiction.

However, if the big twist ending didn't give it away, we're here to tell you that Fall is not based on a true story.

Perhaps at some point, two people have been stuck up an abandoned tower, but if they have, it hasn't been adapted into a nerve-shredding thriller.

While the story isn't true, the tower at the centre of it — the decommissioned B67 TV Tower — is based on a real-life tower: the KXTV Tower in California, one of the tallest structures in the world.

Talking to RadioTimes.com last year ahead of Fall's cinema release, director and co-writer Scott Mann revealed that realising such towers exist was what led to Fall developing from an idea into an actual movie.

"It was just like that is the perfect location, the perfect kind of character to be at the centre of this nutty thing," he explained.

"We scoured all around California, and it was during COVID, so we'd just drive and drive and drive to these random remote locations, to try and get access. A lot of them had kind of radio masts and things at the top of these mountains, and you're just finding the right kind of top of a mountain with the right cliff and the right sunlight positioning."

Safe to say that after watching Fall, if you ever see one of those radio towers around, you won't be tempted to climb it.

Fall is available to watch now on Netflix.