‘Free Solo’ Team to Direct Universal’s Thai Cave Rescue Movie

Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui

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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.

‘Into the Dark’: Yet Another Thai Cave Rescue Movie in the Works at Universal

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 But that doesn’t mean anything to Universal, which has just optioned the rights to a still-unpublished book, Into the Dark, about the triumphant rescue.

There Are Now Six Thai Cave Rescue Movies In the Works

Posted on Friday, July 20th, 2018 by Chris Evangelista

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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.

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