The mission to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a Thai cave is to get the Hollywood treatment in a movie announced by faith-based production house Pure Flix.
Managing partner Michael Scott, who lives
in Thailand and was at the rescue site in Chiang Rai as the boys were
being pulled to safety, made the announcement late Tuesday on Twitter.
"I couldn't be more excited. This story has meant so much to me as I
have followed it in Thailand this summer," he said in a video filmed at
the scene of the flooded cave in the country's north.
"My wife actually grew up with the Thai Navy SEAL that died in the
cave. To see all that heroic bravery in the cave, and to get all the
divers out, it's just such a touching event and so personal to me."
Stunning video footage emerged Wednesday of several of the "Wild
Boars" team -- aged 11 to 16 -- being freed from the Tham Luang cave on
stretchers, ending a successful three-day rescue.
They are in good physical and mental health, say doctors, despite a
harrowing 18 days inside the dank, dark cave before a risky rescue
operation that was dubbed "Mission: Impossible".
Scott's wife has been involved with planning the funeral for Saman
Kunan, the former SEAL that died on July 6 while helping install oxygen
tanks in preparation for the extraction.
"We're here really looking at this as a movie that could inspire millions of people across the globe," Scott added.
"And we're here witnessing the events, gathering some contacts and
everything, to really tell a story about an international effort, the
entire world coming together to save (12) kids trapped in this Thai
cave."
Pure Flix co-founder David A.R. White told The Wall Street Journal
the company -- which was behind the 2014-18 "God's Not Dead" trilogy --
was talking to actors, writers and potential investors.
"Pure Flix joins the rest of the world in thanking God for answering
prayers for the successful rescue of those trapped in the cave in
Thailand," the company said in a statement.
Source - TheNation
