Thai Cave Rescue Can't Spot Retelling

Netflix’s Thai Cave Rescue is a true story and now filmmakers can’t stop retelling it.

The Thai Cave Rescue is the incredible real-life story of aspiration and holding onto the life of 12 soccer players and their coach.

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They were rescued after being stuck in the Northern Thailand Cave for more than two weeks.

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On Sep 22, it gets released on Netflix with a six-episode covering how they get stuck in a certain Non-system due to rainfall.

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It is the fourth major rescue operation that took the world's attention. They have also promised for behind the scenes.

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The series includes exclusive insights into real-life wild Boars. In the series, some of the shots have taken in their real houses themselves.

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The showrunner Dana Ledox Miller tells TIME that the boys are the heart and the soul of the series.

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The story is one of the adaptations of the rescue story. The depiction of news footage that tells the story has been given to the European diver.

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The creator's decision to put boys at the center of the series makes it sets this retelling apart. Director says that point of view is what gets missed sometimes.

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Miller once said that she and Gunn were worried about working with the boys to tell their stories. She added that they were humorous though.

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