Eight months after winning the documentary Oscar for “Free Solo,” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin began working on their next documentary project: National Geographic’s “The Resc…
Eight months after winning the documentary Oscar for “Free Solo,” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin began working on their next documentary project: National Geographic’s “.” The directing duo used never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave.
Vasarhelyi: We had only heard rumors from the divers themselves that they remembered carrying GoPros. When we met in person with the Thai Navy Seals, we were expecting they had at most 90 minutes of cobbled-together material. When we finally came to an agreement with them, we realized there was 87 hours of all of this amazing footage of what happens inside the cave [including] the footage of the kids themselves.
In an ideal world, we would have filmed the real participants in the real cave, but as we were unable to get to Thailand because of COVID, we filmed the real divers reenacting certain parts of their accounts from the rescue in a tank in England. Our intention was to try to make them as impressionistic as possible. What it ends up as is a pastiche of real footage from GoPros and reenactment.
Vasarhelyi: There is a preexisting deal with another studio who own the rights to the children. We did everything in our power to try and get some access to them, but it didn’t end up working out.
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