Thirteen Lives

[Wade Hampton]

For those of us who have Amazon Prime, I want to recommend the movie “Thirteen Lives,” which is a docudrama about the rescue of the Thai boys soccer team that got caught in a cave by rising water. It’s directed by Ron Howard and stars Viggo Mortenson, Joel Edgerton and Colin Farrell as British rescue divers.

Pre-pandemic this film would have probably been released in theaters rather than on streaming, but times change….

Anyway, it’s an excellent film and well worth watching.


Wade Hampton Miller

[RP]

I watched it last night. I was initially put off by the profuse use of captions during the beginning, but I loved the film....

[12barBill]

Here is the trailer:

[casualmusic]

A bit more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_cave_2019_2 2019 Thai film maker
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_rescue_2021 2021 National Geographic
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thirteen_lives 2022 MGM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Cave_Rescue 2022 NetFlix series

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ai+cave+rescue

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Books

Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface – The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue (2021) by Rick Stanton
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Thai Cave Rescue (2021) by John Volanthen
All Thirteen - a 2020 nonfiction children's book by American author Christina Soontornvat. It received positive reviews from critics and was awarded a Newbery Honor and a Sibert Honor in 2021.
The Boys in the Cave (2018) by Matt Gutman
The Great Cave Rescue (2018) by James Massola

Film and television

2019: The Cave was written and directed by Thai-Irish filmmaker Tom Waller, and features many of the real-life cave divers as themselves.[229]

2021:National Geographic released a documentary titled The Rescue on 8 October 2021. The film made use of body-cam footage recorded by the divers involved in the operation.[230]

2022: Director Ron Howard's Amazon Original film, Thirteen Lives (with a screenplay by William Nicholson) was released in theaters in July and on Amazon Prime in August 2022. The film rights were acquired in 2020 from Pure Flix.[231] Filming began in in Queensland, Australia in March 2021.[232]

2022: A Thai language Netflix limited series titled Thai Cave Rescue will release on September 22, 2022. It is the only production that was granted access to the members of the Wild Boars soccer team.[230]

[random works]

We watched more than half and will finish tonight. We both liked it. I thought it was going to focus on the kids in the cave more, but they were smart to bring out all of what was happening with everyone on the surface.