It’s “the greatest rescue the world has ever seen,” announces the trailer for Ron Howard’s survival drama Thirteen Lives, which chronicles the rescue of a junior football team trapped for 18 days in Thailand’s Tham Luang Nang Non cave after heavy rainfall flooded the cave and blocked their way out. Knowing what we know of the rescue saga that gripped the whole world when it happened in 2018, that would not be an overstatement. The chances for the kids and their coach’s survival were abysmal as floodwaters rose and oxygen and food supplies ran low. Even after being found alive, getting them out of the caves was near impossible. The thirteen would have to be extracted, one by one, by an international team of cave divers who can barely fit into the narrowest parts of the cave, let alone swim while dragging the survivors along its treacherous underwater passageways. “It looks easy, but when it’s flooded, it’s impossible,” warns Colin Farrell playing John Volanthen in the trailer. The diving pathway is “barely shoulder wide, pulling against very strong currents,” explains Richard Stanton (Viggo Mortensen). “You try to dive those kids the whole way, all you’ll be bringing out is dead bodies.”



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