![]() With his untimely passing, Jones left behind his wife Emily, who was seven weeks pregnant at the time, and a 13-month-old daughter. … But then, when you learned about what kind of person he was, that made it a story.” ![]() “And the interesting part for me is when it was going on, you heard about how he was trapped and how painful it must be and how hard it was for the rescuers and how everything was going. “It’s a story that, I think, got all of us,” Halasima said. He remembers hearing the tragic news on TV that Thanksgiving weekend. When deciding on how he wanted to break into the movie industry, Halasima told the Deseret News that there was no question in his mind that Jones’ story was the one he wanted to depict. The catastrophe remains a delicate subject to this day, but local filmmaker Isaac Halasima believes it’s a tale worth telling.Īlready a well-established music video director, Halasima is making his first venture into the world of full-length filmmaking with his upcoming film, “The Last Descent,” which was filmed entirely in Utah and hits theaters Sept. While navigating a tight passage, Jones became stuck in a crevice 125 feet below ground and, despite a rescue crew’s best efforts, Jones ultimately passed away inside the cave a day later. ![]() Twenty-six-year-old John Jones was exploring the cave with his brother the day before Thanksgiving in 2009. It has been nearly seven years since tragedy struck at Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave in Utah County. ![]()
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