Oscar-winning director Ron Howard retells the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from Thailand’s Tham Luang cave
LONDON, United Kingdom – Four years on from the dramatic rescue of a group of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand, their story has been told by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard in Thirteen Lives.
The boys, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach, were exploring the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand’s Chiang Rai in June 2018 when monsoon rains flooded the tunnels and trapped them underground.
They survived nine days in a partially flooded chamber before being discovered by two British divers, but it took Thailand’s elite navy SEALs and international volunteers another eight days to bring them to safety.
Thirteen Lives recreates the 17-day…
