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The rescued Thai soccer team is speaking out.

The Wild Boars soccer team, along with Coach Ake, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday (October 15).

During the appearance, the team recalled their harrowing experience being trapped in a flooded Thai cave for 18 days. They explain how they remained calm and positive with prayer and meditation until their successful rescue. Each individual rescue took around 8 hours, but they don’t remember much since they were sedated, they explained. They also revealed four of their teammates spent their birthdays inside the cave.

Later, Ellen surprised the team with Ellen-ized soccer jerseys and international soccer star, LA Galaxy’s Zlatan Ibrahimović, who praises them as the best team in the world. He also gave them LA Galaxy gear and invited them to a private practice with his LA Galaxy teammates at StubHub Center. Plus, Ellen gave the Wild Boars soccer team a VIP experience and tickets to a LAFC game.

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Just days after the successful mission to rescue the young Thailand Wild Boars soccer team players and their coach from a cave in Northern Thailand, two movies have already been announced based on their story.

Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu announced that he will be partnering with Ivanhoe Pictures to make a movie about the rescue, according to Variety. The news follows the announcement from Pure Flix Entertainment that they too were seeking the rights to make a movie about the mission.

Jon is reportedly already talking to Thai senior officials about the project.

“I refuse to let Hollywood #whitewashout the Thai Cave rescue story! No way. Not on our watch. That won’t happen or we’ll give them hell. There’s a beautiful story abt human beings saving other human beings. So anyone thinking abt the story better approach it right & respectfully,” he tweeted on Wednesday (July 11).

One day before (July 10), faith-based company Pure Flix Entertainment announced they would be adapting the story.

“The bravery and heroism I’ve witnessed is incredibly inspiring, so, yes, this will be a movie for us,” said CEO and co-founder Michael Scott, who lives in Thailand part-time and was on the scene of the rescue.