By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Several bids are in on Thirteen Lives, a mid-budget drama that Ron Howard will direct from a William Nicholson (Gladiator and Unbroken) screenplay.
There are a couple of competing projects percolating about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue of the teens on the Thailand Wild Boar boys soccer team after they were led by their coach into the cave.
They became trapped 1,000 meters below the surface by monsoon rains and came out in 2018 in a rescue effort that took the life of a retired Thai Navy SEAL whose oxygen ran out.
There’s a movie at Universal and Cavalry Media that has Free Solo filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi attached, and Netflix partnered with Crazy Rich Asians producer
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