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There was a great rush by Hollywood for the rights to the young soccer players, their coach and the divers involved in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand. Ron Howard\u2019s feature take, Thirteen Lives, made it to the finish line first at MGM, and the 2x Oscar winning filmmaker tells us how that came to be on today\u2019s Crew Call.<\/p>\n
It helped that the pic\u2019s producer P.J. van Sandwijk was also behind the documentary about the same subject, The Rescue, made by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Howard was struck by the script by 2x Oscar nominee William Nicholson which provided surprising twists and turns not known by many.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy documentary experience in recent years was going to serve me well, and it did,\u201d says Howard about his approach to the feature version of the widely covered media story, \u201cI didn\u2019t want it to feel like it was staged, but captured.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another challenge for Howard entailed making a movie that was largely in Thai, that completely embraced their culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted Thai audiences; if they didn\u2019t know who directed it, I\u2019d want them to think a Thai (filmmaker) directed it,\u201d adds the A Beautiful Mind Oscar winning director and producer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a big story and so worthy of being told from various different vantage points and modes; if I could be one of them, I wanted to,\u201d adds Howard.<\/p>\n
Howard\u2019s career has been built on making blockbuster event dramas, i.e. Ransom, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, and The Da Vinci Code \u2014 however, in a box office marketplace that\u2019s ruled by comic book movies, has that genre become extinct?<\/p>\n
Answers Howard: \u201cI think we\u2019re still learning as we go here. It\u2019s being redefined. I do believe in it. I do believe that adult dramas especially when they transport an audience to a place and create suspense and are engaging enough, are entertaining enough people. If priced properly, they can be a reasonable bet, and I think most studio execs feel that way. I\u2019m not sure any studios execs are ready to make any declarations about any drama, outside of horror which is really working and tentpole fantasies, which are working; animation works. That\u2019s sort of four quadrant or date night content. I don\u2019t think anyone has given up on the idea or pretends to really know. At the end of the day the audience is going to define it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Howard also talks about his upcoming Disney+ documentary about Jim Henson, his first animated movie The Shrinking of Treehorn at Netflix and whether there\u2019s another western movie left in him after The Missing.<\/p>\n
Listen to our conversation with Howard and view this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ron Howard On Getting His Feature Take Of Tham Luang Cave Rescue \u2018Thirteen Lives\u2019 Across The Finish Line & Whether Event Dramas Are Extinct \u2013 Crew Call Podcast: There was a great rush by Hollywood for the rights to the young soccer players, their coach and the divers involved in the 2018 Tham Luang cave
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