After his feature “Mindfulness and Murder” (2011), Thai director Tom Waller found his next project in the form of an obituary in a local newspaper. The announcement was about the death of Chavoret Jaruboon, something of a celebrity in Waller’s home country, since he was the last executioner carrying out death sentences via firing squad. When Thailand’s government abolished death by firing squad in 2003, Jaruboon also resigned. Since his formal appointment to the position in 1984, he had been responsible for 55 executions, all of which were carried out with him shooting the prisoner with a mounted machine gun. In the years until his death, he was a regular guest on TV shows and wrote books about his time as executioner.
Interestingly, the study of former executioners such as Jaruboon provides many noteworthy aspects for the discussion about the necessity of capital punishment in general. In an article about Albert Pierrepoint,...
Interestingly, the study of former executioners such as Jaruboon provides many noteworthy aspects for the discussion about the necessity of capital punishment in general. In an article about Albert Pierrepoint,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Several of the real-life heroes whose actions in rescuing a soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand made world headlines a year ago this month will play themselves in upcoming movie “The Cave.”
They include rescue diver Jim Warny from Belgium, dive instructors Erik Brown from Canada and Mikko Paasi from Finland, and Chinese cave-diving instructor Tan Xiaolong. American journalist Todd Ruiz, who covered the events in the Tham Luang caves for the Khao Sod English-language newspaper, reprises his role as a reporter.
The film, in Thai, Chinese and English, is directed by Thai-Irish director Tom Waller. He wrote the story with writers Don Linder and Katrina Grose, who previously collaborated with him on “The Last Executioner.”
Thai teen heartthrob Ekawat Niratworapanya heads the acting cast. He plays the football coach who led 12 schoolboys into the caves near Chiang Mai. When the Wild Boars team became trapped by suddenly rising floodwaters,...
They include rescue diver Jim Warny from Belgium, dive instructors Erik Brown from Canada and Mikko Paasi from Finland, and Chinese cave-diving instructor Tan Xiaolong. American journalist Todd Ruiz, who covered the events in the Tham Luang caves for the Khao Sod English-language newspaper, reprises his role as a reporter.
The film, in Thai, Chinese and English, is directed by Thai-Irish director Tom Waller. He wrote the story with writers Don Linder and Katrina Grose, who previously collaborated with him on “The Last Executioner.”
Thai teen heartthrob Ekawat Niratworapanya heads the acting cast. He plays the football coach who led 12 schoolboys into the caves near Chiang Mai. When the Wild Boars team became trapped by suddenly rising floodwaters,...
- 7/11/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu attached) and another via faith-based distributor Pure Flix — staked their claim.
Also in the works is a film from Bangkok-born director-producer Tom Waller, who is developing a screenplay with co-writers Katrina Grose and Don Linder (the pair wrote Waller's 2014 film The Last Executioner). Waller is planning a Rashomon effect style, exploring the ...
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Also in the works is a film from Bangkok-born director-producer Tom Waller, who is developing a screenplay with co-writers Katrina Grose and Don Linder (the pair wrote Waller's 2014 film The Last Executioner). Waller is planning a Rashomon effect style, exploring the ...
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- 7/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu attached) and another via faith-based distributor Pure Flix — staked their claim.
Also in the works is a film from Bangkok-born director-producer Tom Waller, who is developing a screenplay with co-writers Katrina Grose and Don Linder (the pair wrote Waller's 2014 film The Last Executioner). Waller is planning a Rashomon effect style, exploring the ...
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Also in the works is a film from Bangkok-born director-producer Tom Waller, who is developing a screenplay with co-writers Katrina Grose and Don Linder (the pair wrote Waller's 2014 film The Last Executioner). Waller is planning a Rashomon effect style, exploring the ...
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- 7/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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