Netflix has announced it will join with the production company for the movie Crazy Rich Asians to make a film about last July鈥檚 dramatic rescue of 12 village boys in northern Thailand who were trapped with their soccer coach in a flooded cave for more than two weeks.
Netflix and SK Global Entertainment said Tuesday in Bangkok they have acquired the rights to the story from 13 Thumluang Co. Ltd,, a company that Thailand鈥檚 government helped establish to represent the interests of the boys and their coach.
Thailand鈥檚 Culture Ministry in March first unveiled the deal, announced as a miniseries. Deputy government spokesman Weerachon Sukoondhapatipakat was quoted then as saying that the families of the cave survivors would each be paid 3 million baht ($94,000).
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The Associated Press
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