MGM has acquired the rights to the Ron Howard-directed Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives. The film tells the true story of the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded, impenetrable cave system in Thailand, which gained international attention.
William Nicholson, the Oscar-nominated writer of Gladiator, penned the feature, which will be produced by P.J. van Sandwijk of Storyteller Productions, Gabrielle Tana of Magnolia Mae, and Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Karen Lunder of Imagine Entertainment.
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