Trailer For Ron Howard's Thai Rescue Cave Film THIRTEEN LIVES Starring Viggo Mortensen
Amazon has released the first trailer for director Ron Howard’s upcoming movie Thirteen Lives, which tells the true story of the 12-member youth Thai soccer team that found themselves stuck in a flooded cave for 18 days. This story captured the world’s attention and this looks like an incredibly intense and nerve-racking movie!
The movie stars Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, and Joel Edgerton as three members of the team of British and Australian divers who managed to recover all twelve children and their soccer coach.
In the true story of Thirteen Lives, “twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.”
The actors actually went through some intense diving training for the film, and when talking about his experience doing this, Mortensen said, "One thing Rick [one of the divers training the cast for the film] kept talking about was, 'Remember to just breath calmly. Control your breathing. The more nervous you are and you're breathing shallow, you're using up all your air.”
At one point during shooting, the actor had a scary moment and he shared, "I managed to get through this tight spot, but I really had a moment there where I started to breathe fast, and I was like [imitates trying to breathe], and there was nothing."
He went on to say, "There were a lot of places that were so narrow that you had to just wiggle through. Sometimes you had to take your tank...off, while you were underwater, without disconnecting from the air — then go through this wiggle area, [and] put the tank on. Do this all calmly. We had two tanks. If something went wrong with one, just be calm. Don't freak out, because you can drown in a few seconds. Once you freak out and you swallow a little water, you're done. Even though it's a movie ... nobody can get to you fast enough, and so forth."
Damn, keep that all in mind when you watch this trailer! Thirteen Lives will premiere on Prime Video in August 2022.