The Wild Boars football team were trapped in the Tham Luang cave for over two weeks Ron Howard is set to direct a new film documenting the 2018 Thailand cave rescue.
Thirteen Lives will document the event, which saw 12 members of the Wild Boars football team become trapped in the Tham Luang cave 1,000 metres below the surface for more than two weeks.
All 12 of the players and their coach were freed, though one member of the rescue mission, a retired Thai Navy SEAL, died while trying to free the them.
As Deadline reports, Howard is set to direct the new film from Gladiator writer William Nicholson’s screenplay, and there are several bidders looking to produce the film.
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