EXCLUSIVE: The Revenant and 12 Years A Slave producer-financier New Regency looks to have come out on top in the heated contest for screen rights to the remarkable true story of a group of boys who…
As we reported on Monday, a collection of top studios and producers were in the mix for this one so it’s a coup for New Regency, who this week was also revealed to be aboard Yorgos Lanthimos projectRelated StoryBregman’s narrative follows how in 1965 six friends, teenagers bored with their life at a boarding school on the Pacific island of Tonga, stole a fishing boat and set off on an adventure.
The story of how Bregman pieces the little-known narrative together is worthy of a screen version in itself or could make a nice bookend for any screen retelling. Bregman tracked down the sailor – who himself has an interesting backstory – through some nifty detective work and travels to meet him in the Australian outback. It turns out the friendship between him and the boys has endured to this day.article traveled far and wide.
Bregman tweeted at the time that he was being “bombarded with emails from producers and directors.” Following our story on Monday, the author told the Guardian that he and the five subjects of the story were “collaborating and will make a decision together,” regarding the screen rights. The survival story has sparked the imagination of Hollywood a little like we saw with the rescue of the Chilean miners in 2010 and the Thai cave rescue in 2018.
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