BANGKOK: Netflix, an American media-services provider, is collaborating with the production company for the movie “Crazy Rich Asians” to make a film about last July’s dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand for more than two weeks.

Netflix and SK Global Entertainment said they acquired the rights to the story from 13 Thumluang Co. Ltd, a company that Thailand’s government helped establish represent the interests of the boys and their coach, who attended the news conference for the announcement Tuesday in Bangkok.

(Agencies)