Posted on 07/11/2018 8:06:44 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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."
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And who didn't see that coming?
I’ll pass. Already saw the action live. All I care about now is if the one got his birthday party and the other one got all the fried chicken he could eat.
Did you hear, the Australian doctor in the cave with the boys lost his father within hours of the end of the rescue. Don’t know what country the father was in or what he died of. Too bad the doctor couldn’t have been with him but hope his father knew what a hero his son is.
BINGO! Good post. I imagine most of the SEALS will be Trump-hating gays in the movie version.
And filmed in Burma!
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