Tongan castaway story to be made into a Hollywood film

Hollywood studio New Regency has won the rights to make a film about the six Tongan teenagers stranded for 15 months on an uninhabited island in the mid-1960s. 55 years on and one of the six survivors, Tevita Siola'a, spoke to John Pulu about their epic adventure that will be on the big screen.

[@DeborahLArmstrong]

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!

[@5thdawg917]

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

[@jaystef1627]

Those 6 were 100% badasses

[@darleneachille491]

For sure!!!❤️❤️❤️

[@dangerislander]

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

[@KaylaSale]

Agreed!

[@jesuisdavid1]

as long as they can act...

[@konikuz]

There aren’t really that many Tongan actors the roles would definitely be filled or should be filled by Samoan actors from nz 👌🏽

[@Kz-up]

Dom tupou finna be one

[@etoatoummhmm6391]

That will be too difficult, I say as long they are good actors and look like the boys.

[@SKZemiliaSTAY]

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?

[@diekritischestimme]

Honestly, with all the political correct nonsense these days I wouldn't have too much hope for a good movie, though the content and story of the boys is amazing.

[@maliatupou8696]

Rip kolo Fekitoa ❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@Raylee-H]

How proud would the family of Peter Warner be …

[@elsqueezy5459]

Wow cool story.

[@toakasi6425]

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.

[@bp792]

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

[@diekritischestimme]

Exactly my thoughts! I rarely watch movies made after 2005-2008 - 90% of them is bull*** , even if the imdb ratings are good - the ratings are ridiculous. Better watch the old movies, with traditional family values, REAL heroes and not modern propaganda agendas.

[@benidobre]

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

[@Colonel1Bravo]

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

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

❤❤❤❤

They're more jacked than the average man and they also look much older 4:11 top left dude looks like he's in his 30

[@Harry.Lee.]

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.

[@jagtan13]

Well may the man rest in peace. I'd imagine he and the two others are chilling together in the beyond.

[@mrfin02]

He was a good man ✊🏼✊🏼 thank you Peter

[@kennarajora6532]

What a shame. Rest In Peace.

[@malif1279]

He sounded like a great person, rest in peace

[@boxerwayne6660]

He became a businessman in Tonga and rooted a few Tongan women

[@SH-op9hc]

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

[@A-Grammie-On-the-ROCK]

Perhaps the difference is these young men were older and were already friends and they also believed in praying together ....the Lord of the Flies had young boys and not close friends and they did not pray together....we are sinful at heart and need Jesus in our lives to wash away our sinful nature . That's why the world such a mess...people have rejected Christ and His forgivenenss and gone their own way. Only Jesus Christ can mend broken hearts and relationships and deal with our sinful nature . He is coming back likely in 2022.

[@radongc115]

Human nature is evil. God and their Christian upbringing was the reason for such cooperation and good behavior. Humanity has the ability to be good, but that is only because of God.

[@SHVideografie]

@@radongc115 Bullshit.

[@ChickenLordThe]

@@radongc115that is such bollocks. You do not need god to have morality you absolute twong. It isn’t god that keeps society together it is empathy regardless of god.

[@radongc115]

@@ChickenLordThe God created morality, you only have a sense of “morality” because you were born with it. You were born with it because human beings are designed with God’s law written on their hearts. Any benevolence in existence in the world right now, exists solely because of God. Any goodness inside of you comes from God. You, completely of your own volition, are incapable of true unselfish good.

[@kamitonitongi9037]

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🙏🏽

[@BenjiClips614]

I hope you do brother 🙏

[@kanuni1979]

praying too for you to get that role brother 🙏🏽. is there any progression about the movie yet?

[@SirTibzy]

So... when's this film happening?

[@Orangeflava]

I want to kmow as well!

[@sahidakhtarahmed]

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

[@bonnie25ful]

🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴🙏🏻❤️

[@S.E.C-R]

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

[@kulisi]

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

[@coconutcrawler5650]

Knowing Hollywood, they’ll probably add fantasy characters into the mix, like walking and talking rocks (Russel Crowe’s 2014 Noah flop), thus ruining the natural human element.

[@jamestaylor954]

Was the movie released?

[@Gabsengeii]

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

[@marionetteproject508]

The point about studio ghibli is they need someone to fulfill their place.

[@baratong267]

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"

[@Apple561]

And a chinese one so isn't discriminating

[@Apple561]

Maybe a trans one too

[@kchishol1970]

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."

[@Chanellllllllll15]

Y this is not famous

[@irie3812]

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

[@H81234]

They probably won’t. If the surviving guys are involved with the project they will want it as authentic as possible.

[@FalconWindblader]

Shit like that happens when it's some execs in the office looking at nothing but numbers on ledgers thinking that they know what's best & insist on being the ones to helm the films produced. keep those shitasses out, give full creative rights to the directors & even have such consultants on board, & the films would do fine.

[@sandramorey2529]

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.

[@NJGuy1973]

How about a group of fictional New Jersey-raised teenage girls in the '90s?

[@ChickenLordThe]

Christianity does not determine whether a person is moral if it does you’re basically admitting you would commit horrific crimes if not for god

[@helraiserlastdaysofhell1795]

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

[@CERDIP]

20th Century.

[@5thdawg917]

😂 bruh..

[@C2akoi]

💙💙💙 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴

[@Orangeflava]

What's the status on the film?

[@user-wz4hr5xu4k]

yep, i just got here - just discovered this story 10 mins ago. Please, get that movie up already, i'm dying to rejoice in their amazing experience and rescue.

[@Orangeflava]

@@user-wz4hr5xu4k same!

[@sidotai6123]

Bullshit there’s going to be a movie about them

[@eldromedario3315]

tysm 4 capitalising God at the end !

[@pahukolofoou]

Oh boy!

[@prondiest]

Why the narrator sounds like Swaggersouls 😭

[@marionetteproject508]

wait,I RECOGNISE your pfp!!! it's from goodnight punpun

[@schnellfahren911]

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

[@WorldPeace-AdamNeira]

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.

[@edwardmacnab354]

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

[@ludy41]

Say what????

[@edwardmacnab354]

@@ludy41 The movie would be as boring as the 15 months stranded on Ata must have been

[@jamesbutler80]

@@ludy41 He has a point, the main bulk of the movie would be the boys in the island which mostly consisted of the same laborious tasks to keep themselves alive.

[@elconijo]

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

[@carolthorn]

Because God was the reason they made it.