Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives takes divers on terrifying mission

The rescue of 12 children and their coach, aged 25, from Tham Luang cave, Thailand in 2018 was captured on camera by the whole world. This heroic rescue has been made a motion picture and the trailer was released on Tuesday. Collin Farrell is the star of this film.Yang after YangJoel Edgerton (Obi Wan KenobiViggo Mortensen (Lord of the RingsRon Howard directs the film.Apollo 13). Thirteen LivesAvailable in Select Theaters, July 29th and Amazon Prime Aug. 5th.

Richard Stanton, John Volanthen (Farrell), Richard Harris (Edgerton), are all three experts in cave diving brought into the film. They work with other international groups and the Thai military to rescue members of the soccer boys team who got stuck in Tham Luang cave after a flash flood that left much of the cave underwater. Cave diving can be more complex and difficult than open-ocean dives, so the trio must work fast to find the best way to rescue the children and as many people as possible.

Thirteen Lives’ first trailer already looks like a tense and somewhat terrifying dramatization of the real-world rescue. But if you’re looking for a preview of the movie by way of the events that it’s based on, you can also watch last year’s documentary The Rescue, which follows the crew’s efforts first-hand.