Miners’ ordeal set for movies

TWO of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for two months said that plans for a film chronicling their ordeal are moving fast.

Miner Juan Illanes said that discussions for the movie are “very advanced and we hope there are results soon”.

“It’s a business deal and when that’s the case, you want to try to find a way for everyone to profit fairly,” Illanes said.

He said his life has been “scandalously different” since he and his colleagues were rescued in October after spending 69 days trapped 2,300 feet underground by a cave-in.

Prior to the collapse, he was “a normal worker” who would have never been able to afford a trip to Costa Rica.

Illanes and fellow miner Raul Bustos were in the capital, San Jose, to host two private conferences about their experience.

They will travel on Saturday to England, to attend a Manchester United game.

The miners have been inundated with gifts since their rescue. “I think that the joy that our rescue represented is now manifesting itself in gifts,” Mr Bustos said.