LONDON: When details began to emerge of the daring rescue of a Thai football team from flooded caves in Tham Luang Nang Non, it seemed only a matter of time before Hollywood swooped in to buff the real-life drama with the polish of a big-budget movie adaptation. Happily, “Thirteen Lives” is more than a shameless cash in. Director Ron Howard treads carefully, telling the story
It was the evening of 2 July 2018 when British divers Rick Stanton and John Volanthen emerged from the murky, dank monsoon rainwater that had flooded Thailand's Tham Luang Nang Non cave system, immediately realising they had found what they were looking for.
The folks in Hollywood are probably wise not to listen to critics. A lot of stuff we like is old, subtitled and about subjects that don't sell toys. I once persuaded an arthouse theater owner to show a movie I loved called "Last Resort," made by an up-and-coming Polish director named Pawel Pawlikowski. While the filmmaker later earned an Oscar nomination for directing "Cold War," nobody went to see "Last Resort."