Ron Howard's Thai Cave Rescue Film Thirteen Lives Moves To Amazon Prime
After Amazon's completed purchase of renowned movie studio MGM, movie enthusiasts were left wondering about how the purchase would affect MGM's slate of upcoming theatrical releases. Now, Amazon has confirmed that Thirteen Lives, Ron Howard's film about the Thai cave rescue of a junior soccer team and their coach, has moved its release to Amazon Prime.
Amazon Prime's Thirteen Lives is director Howard's first film since 2020. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell as divers who played leading roles in the rescue of the soccer team by swimming through the flooded cave system in Thailand. The film also stars Joel Edgerton and Tom Bateman as well as a slew of Thai actors. Howard directs from a script written by William Nicholson, a veteran screenwriter who wrote scripts for many big films including Ridley Scott's Gladiator and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables.
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Variety broke the news, clarifying that instead of Thirteen Lives' previously planned Oscar-season theatrical release on November 18th, Amazon will premiere the film in a limited amount of theaters in August before releasing it on Amazon Prime a few weeks later. The decision echoes similar hybrid releases by streaming companies such as Netflix's plans for Army of the Dead, The Harder They Fall, and Don't Look Up. Amazon plans to position Thirteen Lives as one of their tentpole films for this summer season.
Thirteen Lives isn't the only MGM film getting a hybrid release through Amazon. Samaritan, an original superhero film starring Sylvester Stallone, is also listed by Variety as receiving an altered release plan, as is Billy Porter's directorial debut, Anything's Possible. How Amazon's new
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