Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives, based on the 2018 Thai caves rescue mission, will start filming in March in Queensland
Australia will provide $13 million to MGM and Imagine Entertainment towards the production, with the Gold Coast hinterland doubling up for Thailand.
Produced by Oscar-winner Brian Grazer, P.J. van Sandwijk, Gabrielle Tana and Karen Lunder, Thirteen Lives follows the true story of the 2018 Tham Laung cave rescue of a boys’ soccer team, trapped in a cave by heavy rain and flooding.
After the team was stuck for days with no supplies and falling oxygen levels, a group from all over the world came together to work with the people of Thailand to save the boys.
Among those experts were a group of divers from the UK and Australia.
“Over the years, I’ve both enjoyed and creatively benefited from collaborations with Australian artists and technicians in front…
