Film Review: Ron Howard’s Thai Cave Rescue Drama ‘Thirteen Lives’

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Jon Burlingame editorComposer Benjamin Wallfisch has a vast amount of experience scoring films, from “Hidden Figures” and “Blade Runner 2049” to “It” and “The Invisible Man.” Yet nothing had quite prepared him to score “Thirteen Lives,” the true story of the rescue of a dozen boys and their coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand in 2018.“It turned out to be one of the hardest scores I’ve ever worked on,” Wallfisch says. “Everything you thought might work, just didn’t work.” Plus, COVID restrictions prevented him from traveling to Thailand to research the music.

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With “Thirteen Lives,” Ron Howard delivers his cinematic interpretation of the story of the stranded Thai soccer team that commanded the world’s attention in the early summer of 2018. Howard’s film joins other projects — including the 2021 National Geographic documentary “The Rescue” and Netflix’s upcoming limited series “Thai Cave Rescue” — that covered the incredible true story of the skilled divers that rescued the team. The screenplay comes from “Unbroken” and “Everest” screenwriter William Nicholson. Producers include P.J.

for the most heroic of reasons.In Ron Howard’s new movie “Thirteen Lives,” streaming on Prime Video Friday, Viggo Mortensen plays Stanton, who co-engineered the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a monsoon-flooded cave. Along with his diving partner, John Volanthen (Colin Farrell in the film), he was able to navigate the forbidding terrain and locate the boys, who were stranded more than 2 miles into the cave.With Stanton working as an adviser on the film, he said Howard’s depiction is true to life.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Benjamin Wallfisch’s score for Ron Howard’s survival drama Thirteen Lives, which is slated for release on all major digital platforms via Milan Records tomorrow, as the film becomes available for streaming on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

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Colin Farrell is opening up about filming Thirteen Lives, which is now out in select theaters.

Carson Burton The shoot for “Thirteen Lives,” the feature film adaptation of the miraculous 2018 cave-diving rescue mission known as the Tham Luang cave rescue, found all principal cast members taking to the water to navigate long, recreated cave corridors. Tom Bateman, who plays one of the rescue divers in the film, recalls the hours upon hours of underwater training the film required.“We were fucking pruned!” Bateman told Variety at the red carpet premiere of the film at Westwood Village Theater on Thursday night. “It was pretty tough, man.

Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen joined the cast of their movie Thirteen Lives for the latest red carpet premiere!

During Amazon Prime Video’s "Thirteen Lives" movie premiere, director Ron Howard told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that none of the cast members "dared complain" while filming on set.  "Fortunately, we had no terrible incidents and nobody complained on this movie because how could you? They were reflecting something that a lot of people had really lived through," Howard remarked. "Nobody would dare complain.They've all felt honored to have the opportunity to… bring it to audiences." "Thirteen Lives" depicts the phenomenal true story of the incredible global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team trapped in the Tham Luang cave during an unexpected rainstorm.  Faced with tremendous challenges, a team of the world’s most experienced divers navigated the maze of flooded, narrow cave tunnels.The divers were joined by Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers to complete the mission of rescuing 12 boys and their coach.  Amazon Prime Video’s "Thirteen Lives" director Ron Howard told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that none of the cast members "dared complain," while filming on set.  (Getty Images) Howard detailed how complex filming "Thirteen Lives" truly was and described how "exhausting" it was to capture the underwater scenes.

on Amazon Prime Aug. 5, the director doesn’t make quick, from-the-gut decisions the way that the intrepid team did. Instead, he takes a chill ride on the Lazy River.Running time: 147 minutes.