Ron Howard, ‘13 Lives’ Filmmakers Interview – Contenders L.A. – Deadline

Ron Howard was as transfixed as the remainder of the world in 2018 when an enormous worldwide rescue effort got here collectively to save lots of 12 Thai youth soccer gamers and their coach who have been trapped in a flooded underground cave. 

That’s additionally why Howard and his crew grew to become obsessive about not solely telling their story however doing so with a most degree of reality and honesty about what truly transpired over the course of that lengthy summer time month.

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Talking on the Deadline’s The Contenders Movie: Los Angeles panel Saturday, supervising sound editor Rachel Tate talked in regards to the granular degree of element they pursued whereas producing the movie.

“As a viewer, you’ll be able to go into these scenes, shut your eyes, and the voices that you just hear passing by, they’re from the nations that truly have been there,” he stated. “They’re saying the strains that have been truly stated at the moment, and even a Thai crowd was recorded about 45 minutes from the actual cave. So we simply wanted to get these particulars proper as a result of it’s a Thai story. It’s their story. They’re very happy with it, and we have now no responsibility being unsuitable about these particulars.”

The drive for authenticity carried over to each facet of the manufacturing, till the actors themselves — who have been meant to be body-doubled by actual skilled divers for the underwater scenes — insisted on doing their very own diving. 

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“I didn’t suppose they need to do it for security causes and production-wise the place there was no technique to make it match,” Howard stated, “however they have been so insistent upon it. nd as soon as we decided that they have been competent sufficient that they’ll safely do it…they might simply present up and you recognize, each hour that they weren’t in entrance of the cameras doing dialogue, they have been there doing the diving and it made all of the distinction on the planet.”

Howard additionally defined how the forged and crew took the time to study Thai tradition and developed an appreciation for Thai non secular practices that carried over into the filming. 

“One of many divers who stated ‘I’m not a very non secular particular person’ — on the finish when he walked out, he stated, ‘I needed to take a second and bow my head to the shrine of the princess as a result of how else might this have occurred?”

Test again Monday for the panel video.