Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2021 by Ben Pearson
Ron Howard‘s Thai cave rescue movie cast is starting to fill out.
Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy), Colin Farrell (In Bruges), and Joel Edgerton (Warrior) are the three most recognizable names to American audiences that have been added to the cast, but there are nine other actors who have been hired to join the ensemble as well.
Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui
How many more Thai soccer teams must be rescued from caves before Hollywood has its fill? At least one more.
Universal has tapped the Oscar-winning filmmaking team behind Free Solo to helm their Thai cave rescue movie. Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, who won a Best Documentary Feature Oscar for their gripping 2018 documentary on rock climber Alex Honnold, are the latest filmmakers to tackle this subject.
Posted on Monday, October 29th, 2018 by Hoai-Tran Bui
The inspiring story of the boys soccer team that was rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand will be coming to the big screen, again. The Thai cave rescue was a story that was fated to become a movie — but more than seven movies? Maybe that’s pushing it. But that doesn’t mean anything to Universal, which has just optioned the rights to a still-unpublished book, Into the Dark, about the triumphant rescue.
Posted on Friday, July 20th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista
Movie-goers can’t resist a true story of triumph, which might explain why there are now six new Thai cave rescue movies in the works. You read that right: six.
