Ron Howard’s film ‘Thirteen Lives’, starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton, has its first teaser trailer and poster, and is set for a limited Northern America release on July 29 and an August 5 release on Streaming Prime Video.
Based on true events, the film, from a script by ‘Gladiator’ screenwriter William Nicholson, tells the story of a youth soccer team and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018, where people from multiple countries around the world team up to perform a miracle rescue.
Thailand cave rescue incident: on the afternoon of June 23, 2018, 12 teenagers from a school soccer team in Chiang Rai finished training and entered a park cave exploration led by their coach, unexpectedly entering the cave after a sudden rainstorm, the flood caused by the heavy rain blocked every entrance to the cave, and they completely lost contact with the outside world.
Thousands of rescue experts, volunteers and military personnel were involved with the support of several countries, and 13 people were rescued after 18 days.
