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Thailand cave rescue episode may become a movie

| @indiablooms | Jul 11, 2018, at 04:31 pm

Los Angeles, July 11 (IBNS): The daring rescue operation from the Thailand cave that witnessed the evacuation of 13 people might be turned into a movie, media reports said.

The three-day evacuation witnessed the rescue of all the 13 people who were trapped inside the flooded cave for two weeks.

The rescue of a boys soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand, a gripping news story that has received worldwide attention, will become a movie from Pure Flix Entertainment, the faith-based production outfit behind the God's Not Dead film franchise, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

Michael Scott, the CEO and co-founder of Pure Flix, were in the site of the rescue operation for several days.

"The bravery and heroism I've witnessed is incredibly inspiring, so, yes, this will be a movie for us," Scott told The Hollywood Reporter during a phone call from Thailand. 

"It's not necessary to make this a Christian film, just an inspirational one," he said.

Scott The Hollywood Reporter he has spoken to some of the 90 divers involved in the rescue mission and, via his Thai contacts, some of the family members of boys who were trapped in the cave, though not the boys themselves as they are still hospitalized.

The evacuation process of the 13 people, which included 12 boys and their football coach, gained worldwide attention.

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