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Ron Howard will direct a film based on the Thai Cave Rescue.
“Thirteen Lives”, says Collider, will be based on the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in which a boys soccer team from Thailand who became trapped in a cave for more than two weeks when heavy rains partially flooded the cave, blocking their way out. All 12 of the boys were rescued along with their 25-year-old coach, though the effort claimed the life of a retired Thai Navy SEAL, Saman Kunan, who ran out of air while saving the kids. Another rescue diver, Beirut Pakbara, died a year and a half later as a result of a blood infection contracted during the rescue mission.
The film has William Nicholson, Oscar-nominated writer of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator”, on screenplay duties.
The film, one of several projects about the incident in the works, is currently being shopped by CAA to several studios.
