It was determined that this was the only viable way of getting the boys out in time, as the caves proved to be so treacherous that even a former Royal Thai Navy SEAL, Saman Kunan, perished of asphyxiation during the process of planning the escape. Richard Harris, and anesthetist who ultimately accompanied the rescue to anesthetize each of the victims so they could be taken on a three-hour journey through the network of underground, flooded caves without panicking. Mortensen and Farrell play British cave/rescue divers Richard Stanton and John Volanthen respectively, while Edgerton is portraying Dr. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.ĭirected by Howard, who is trying to rebound from the cold reception of Hillbilly Elegy, Thirteen Lives stars the strong central trio of Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton as three of the men who formulated a complex, daring plan to rescue the trapped soccer team. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. In the true story of Thirteen Lives, twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Thirteen Lives is a dramatized account of the Tham Luang (Thailand) underwater cave rescue that captivated the world in the summer of 2018. 5, 2022, though it presumably still has some awards aspirations. The film will play in select theaters beginning Jbefore becoming available to stream on Amazon Prime Video on Aug. Acquired by Amazon in the $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM back in March, the film had previously had its release window pushed to November after receiving extremely strong audience test scores, but Amazon then moved it back to the summer. Ron Howard is no stranger to turning sentimental real-life events into tear-jerking cinema, and the prolific director is back at it again in the first trailer for MGM’s Thirteen Lives.
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