Disney Cuts TV, Book Deal With 9 Miners
The nine Pennsylvania coal miners who were trapped underground for 77 hours have sold the TV and book rights to their story to the Walt Disney Co. for $150,000 each, their lawyer said Saturday.
The deal includes a movie for Disney’s ABC-TV network and a book to be published by the Burbank company’s Hyperion Publishing division, Pittsburgh attorney Thomas Crawford said.
The men were working July 24 in a mine in western Pennsylvania when it flooded. They huddled together 240 feet underground, subsisting on little more than a corned beef sandwich split nine ways.
All nine were rescued July 28.
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