Tongan castaway story to be made into a Hollywood film 

Those 6 were 100% badasses

crazy how Lord of The Flies, a fictional book, had such an immense effect on culture and the way we view humanity, but this true story shows us that human nature is not savage. Human nature is cooperation and empathy

It is sad to hear that the 90 year old Peter Warner, the Sailor who saved these Tongan heros from the island of Ata, died tragically after his yacht (Astor) capsized during an attempt to cross the Richmond River bar at Ballina, on the New South Wales North Coast on Tuesday 13 April 2021 (just 2 days ago). Mr Warner was the heir of a wealthy Australian media magnate, Sir Arthur Warner, but gave up his inherited role as a future media tycoon at the age of 17 to fish and sail the world in the hope of becoming a great sailor. He proved that by winning the Sydney to Hobart yaught race 3 times in the 1960s (the same decade in which he save the Tongan boys). His decision not to enter into the business world and went to sea is a masterstroke. May he Rest In Peace.

I hope this movie gets made! We need some hope for humanity! I think the motion picture industry has a responsibility to show us a brighter future, and not just a dystopian zombie apocalypse! Lord of the Flies was frightening. But the reality is so much more hopeful!

Bruh, they have to make a movie like this. Their story is absolutely incredible

I hope they cast real tongans/islanders for this film and not some racially ambiguous/latino actor.

I hope that they are willing to have Auditions In New Zealand as well I hope I Can get into this role.....I hope, I can only pray🙏🏽

Has this film ever come to fruition? It's such an incredibly fascinating true story and I would absolutely love to see a Hollywood film about it as long as it's 100% accurate and not puffed up or exaggerated for $$$. It's already overwhelming and powerful as it is. It doesn't need to be sensationalized. Does anyone know if they actually made it?

i wish there was a new video interview of all the boys together now

How proud would the family of Peter Warner be …

Rip kolo Fekitoa ❤️❤️❤️🙏

Wow cool story.

So... when's this film happening?

Was the movie released?

Did this movie or documentary ever get made? I can’t seem to find it anywhere if it did.

This is an amazing story fills me with hope and faith in restoring faith into humanity again survival of the fitest #legend fakamalo atu ki he nopele.

I could just see the possible taglines: "In 1965, 6 schoolboys were marooned a desert for over a year. 'Lord of the Flies?' Not necessarily..." or "A True 'Anti-Lord of the Flies' Story."

Im sceptical of Hollywood making a faith based film that depicts the true experience of the boys

New Regency better not twist the truth when making it into a movie. Wished Studio Ghibli could tell the story instead.

One of the best real life stories in the 19th centurt✌✌✌

Different cultures and even different parts of the same culture view things differently. Lord of the Flies is a novel written by one man. I suspect that a group of white, privileged kids might be more like Lord of the Flies, Polynesian kids with a basic fundamentalist Christian upbringing might not be. Obviously these kids were able to view their 15 months on the island as a gift and treat it that way. I had never heard of this incident till yesterday and can't wait to see the movie if it gets made.

Y this is not famous

Any news about the movie? It has been 3 years but pandemic

Oh boy!

What's the status on the film?

You shoudnt sell it to Hollywood, they'll twist around.

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Let’s hope Hollywood tells it as it is and doesn’t try and put their woke agenda on it

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Why the narrator sounds like Swaggersouls 😭

Good luck having any reality left in the film whatsoever after handing (any) story to Hollywood

One of the best stories ever, but Hollywood will ruin it. They will also ruin the part about them praying daily to God. They won’t even allow it in the movie most likely and if that is the case they should not allow Hollywood to even make the movie

will be made into hollywood film?title will be" 6 brave white american kids or we might throw in 1 black so it wont be racist"

I hope this movie is made but I fear the funders/producers will wreck it. (Excuse the pun). Arnon Milchan has the rights I think. He/they should not water down/dilute the Judeo-Christian faith angle of the story. It really should be filmed on Ata Island itself aswell to make it as authentic as possible. Sure the logisitical problems will be great but it will be worth it for the audience. I think also it should be with actual Tongan actors speaking in the Tongan language with subtitles, (the authenticity angle again!) and with English bits, e.g. the rescue. There is plenty of interesting elements in the true story to sustain a two and a half hour movie narrative and to captivate an audience. If the producer, writer and director get it right this could be a 90%+ movie on Rotten Tomatoes. Note: William Golding had a certain atheistic/existentialist/satanic frame of reference when he wrote "Lord of the Flies" and of course it is a fictional story whilst the Six Tongan Castaways story is non-fiction.

That would be a great movie but not as it happened because there really is no story except for the documented facts which is not really a story

All that… and he thanks god 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️