Only a few days after the rescue of the junior football team stuck in a cave in Thailand, Hollywood is already planning to make a movie out of it. The survivors of Tham Luang cave will have their story told in the cinema.
On June 23, twelve children between the ages of 11 and 16 and their football coach were trapped by rising waters in Thailand's Tham Luang cave. It is an epic of 18 days that begins then and ends with the rescue on July 10 of all the children. A story that does not leave indifferent the American producers of Pure Flix Films who go there to follow the case. For them, it would make a "great movie". The production company is based in Los Angeles as well as Scottsdale, Arizona. She is particularly famous for the film God is not dead and its $ 70 million revenue, released in 2014.
"A Hollywood blockbuster with great actors" is how Michael Scott, managing director of Pure Flix Films, sees the upcoming film.
Present during the rescue, Scott also inquires with the divers and the parents of the boys in order to have as much information as possible. Scott wanted to turn the story into a feature film shot in Thailand to reflect the "courage and heroism" he witnessed. The film will also pay tribute to Saman Gunan, a former Navy SEAL diver who died during the mission.
"It was really a team effort involving British, Australian, American and Thai, and the divers told us incredible stories: they had less than five metres of visibility, fought hard currents and used a matching system of two divers for each boy rescued. It was a monumental effort. (…) It's not just a film, but honoring everyone involved, including the soldier who died."
Scott announced that he has already allocated a budget of $30 million to $60 million for the project and that the film will be co-produced by Adam Smith of Kaos Entertainment. Having already conducted some preparatory interviews on the subject, they are currently looking for a screenwriter to interview all the actors of the rescue. The goal for them is to secure the exclusive rights of their testimonies.
A project that may seem too fast and indelicate for some, but Adam Smith justifies himself by indicating that they are not the only ones interested in history:
"Other big productions are coming, so we have to act quickly"
Discover the summary of the rescue in video:
