Movie will tell the tale of a group of Tongan teenagers who ended up shipwrecked together in the Pacific for 15 months, after stealing a fisherman’s boat in the 1960s.
A newspaper article Bregman penned to promote his book “Humankind” went viral two weeks ago, sparking a fierce bidding war among Tinseltown studios. Unlike in William Golding’s classic novel “Lord of the Flies,” the real-life boys peacefully co-operated during their time on the uninhabited rocky islet of ‘Ata.
Rutger’s article published by The Guardian describes how the author tracked down an Australian ship captain who miraculously spotted and rescued the boys.After interest from “a lot of studios” who “bombarded” him with inquiries, Rutger spoke with the captain and four surviving castaways on a Zoom call.