![]() ![]() But if Howard’s decision to spotlight the Thai characters in this harrowing narrative is a sound one, there’s an unfamiliar stiffness and self-consciousness in the director’s approach - an inability to marry the fast-paced, no-nonsense heroics that are his strong suit with more emotionally textured storytelling. It’s a restrained rendering of the events, a drama that plays, at times, like a documentary. With Thirteen Lives, Howard, along with storywriters Don MacPherson and William Nicholson, attempts his own worthy retelling by focusing on the boys, their families and the coordination needed among the volunteers to save them. Screenwriters: William Nicholson (screenplay by), Don MacPherson (story by) Release date: Friday, July 29 (MGM) Friday, August 5 (Amazon Prime Video)Ĭast: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Tom Bateman, Paul Gleeson, Sahajak Boonthanakit Two years later, directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ( Free Solo) unveiled The Rescue, a riveting documentary that includes hours of never-before-seen footage. In 2019, Tom Waller premiered his uneven docudrama The Cave at the Busan International Film Festival. Thirteen Lives is not the first attempt to tell the tale. The news galvanized the international community and drew a captivated, sympathetic audience. Most people know the story of the mission to rescue the soccer team, even if they’re hazy on the details. Hours after the team entered the underground karstic cavern, it flooded. What the group thought would be a brief post-practice excursion on familiar terrain turned into an 18-day nightmare. They belong to the 12 soccer players (between the ages of 11 and 16) and their 25-year-old coach, who decided to go exploring one muggy day in late June 2018. The most haunting frame in Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives shows a huddle of bicycles, hurriedly deposited along the metal fence leading into Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand.
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