Netflix has finally revealed the premiere date for its long-gestating drama "Thai Cave Rescue", based on the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand.
In 2018, junior football team The Wild Boars and their 25-year-old coach were trapped for weeks in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai Province in northern Thailand, after heavy rainfall flooded the cave system and blocked their way out.
The Wild Boars consisted of 12 boys aged 11 to 16 and their coach remained trapped for 18 days.
The disaster attracted global interest and an international rescue team was assembled to locate them.
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"Thai Cave Rescue" is set to debut on September 22 and will follow the Wild Boars soccer team’s afternoon exploring with their 25-year-old coach went disastrously wrong when heavy rain trapped them inside.
Netflix partnered with filmmakers across Thailand and beyond in developing the project, which is filmed entirely in the Asian nation, after jointly acquiring rights to the story with SK Global Entertainment back in 2019.
The series consists of six episodes and showcases the perspectives of the boys at the center of the rescue.
"Thai Cave Rescue" features Papangkorn “Beam” Lerkchaleampote as Coach Eak, Thaneth “Ek” Warakulnukroh as Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn, and Urassaya “Yaya” Sperbund and Manatsanun “Donut” Phanlerdwongsakul as Kelly and Pim — fictional representatives of the real-world hydraulic engineers and park rangers that made the incredible rescue possible.
Supakorn “Tok” Kitsuwan is former Navy SEAL per Saman “Ja Sam” Gunan and Bloom Varin plays army doctor Colonel Bhak Loharjun.
The boys are played by 12 local young actors, with filming taking place at the homes of the real boys and Tham Luang, where they were trapped, itself.
As with the real mission, Thai Cave Rescue international actors portray key contributors in the rescue, including Nicholas Bell as Vern Unsworth, Nicholas Farnell as John Volanthen, Christopher Stollery as Rick Stanton, Rodger Corser as Dr. Richard “Harry” Harris, and Damon Herriman as Dr. Craig Challen.
The limited series is created by Michael Russell Gunn and Dana Ledoux Miller. It is directed by Thailand’s Baz Poonpiriya and U.S. director Kevin Tancharoen, who are also serving as executive producers along with Jon M. Chu and Lance Johnson for Electric Somewhere, John Penotti for SK Global Entertainment, John Logan Pierson, and Tim Coddington.
"Thai Cave Rescue" is the first opportunity for audiences worldwide to see the Tham Luang story in a new and more emotional light.
The story will also be presented in Ron Howard and MGM’s Thai cave rescue movie "Thirteen Lives", which debuts on July 29.
The story was also told in the Nat Geo documentary "The Rescue: last year and in the indie movie "The Cave" back in 2019.
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