The 33 - Trailer
From Alcon Entertainment and Phoenix Pictures comes the unforgettable true story of âThe 33.âIn 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope. But 200 stories beneath the surface, in the suffocating heat and with tensions rising, provisionsâand timeâwere quickly running out.A story of resilience, personal transformation and triumph of the human spirit, the film takes us to the Earthâs darkest depths, revealing the psyches of the men trapped in the mine, and depicting the courage of both the miners and their families who refused to give up.Based on the gripping true story of survivalâand filmed with the cooperation of the miners, their families and their rescuersââThe 33â reveals the never-before-seen actual events that unfolded, above and below ground, which became nothing less than a worldwide phenomenon.The international cast is led by Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche âThe English Patientâ, James Brolin, and Lou Diamond Phillips, with Bob Gunton and Gabriel Byrne. The main cast also includes Mario Casas, Jacob Vargas, Juan Pablo Raba, Oscar Nuñez, Tenoch Huerta, Marco Treviño, Adriana Barraza, Kate Del Castillo, Cote de Pablo, Elizabeth De Razzo, Naomi Scott, Gustavo Angarita, and Alejandro Goic. Patricia Riggen directed âThe 33â from a screenplay by Mikko Alanne, Oscar nominee Craig Borten âDallas Buyers Clubâ and Michael Thomas, based on the screen story by Jose Rivera and the book Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar. The film was produced by Oscar nominee Mike Medavoy âBlack Swanâ, Robert Katz and Edward McGurn. Carlos Eugenio Lavin, Leopoldo Enriquez, Alan Zhang and José Luis Escolar served as executive producers.The behind-the-scene creative team included cinematographer Checco Varese, production designer Marco Niro, editor Michael Tronick and Oscar-nominated costume designer Paco Delgado âLes Misérablesâ. The Academy Award-winning team of Alex Henning and Ben Grossman âHugoâ supervised the visual effects. The score was composed by Oscar winner James Horner âTitanicâ.âThe 33â was filmed on location in Chileâs harshly remote yet stunningly beautiful Atacama desert just kilometers away from where the event took place, and deep within two mines located in central Colombia.A presentation of Alcon Entertainment and Phoenix Pictures, âThe 33â is slated to open on November 13, 2015 and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.