Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton all been spotted staying at Broadbeach

Actors Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton as well as director Ron Howard have all been spotted staying at Broadbeach.

The Gold Coast has become a hive of Hollywood stars as the cast of Thirteen Lives bunker down in a local hotel.

Actors Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen and Joel Edgerton as well as director Ron Howard have all been spotted staying at Broadbeach’s luxury precinct, which was recently departed by Tom Hanks and the stars of Elvis.

Farrell was dressed casually in sweat pants as he grabbed a coffee before being chauffeured to set while Mortensen, best known for his starring role in Lord of the Rings, stayed under the radar in a hat and sunglasses.

Colin Farrell on the Gold Coast where he is filming Ron Howard's movie Thirteen Lives. Picture: Tertius Pickard

Filming on Thirteen Lives, which depicts the 2018 Thai Cave rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach, has been underway on the Gold Coast for the past month after the cast completed their mandatory quarantine in Sydney.

Mortensen and Farrell will play Rich Stanton and John Volanthen respectively – the pair of British cave divers who found the soccer team in the cave system – while Australia’s Edgerton will portray Dr Richard Harris, who was jointly awarded 2019 Australian of the Year as a result of his part in the rescue.

“I am excited about Joel. I think he is a great actor, and he is younger, thinner and better looking than me,” Dr Harris said at the time.

Howard, who is helming the production through his and Brian Grazer’s Academy Award-winning Imagine Entertainment, has been in Queensland since mid-January preparing for the film.

Ron Howard on the Gold Coast where he is directing Thirteen Lives. Picture: Tertius Pickard

At the start of the shoot he gifted cast members some indigenous artwork along with a card that read “Welcome to Day 1 of 13 Lives, we’re so excited to tell this story with you”.

“I’m enjoying working here with a tremendously talented and dedicated and hard working cast and crew,” he recently shared to Instagram along with a shot of the Gold Coast skyline.

Meanwhile a host of Thai actors in Queensland for the shoot spent the weekend visiting native wildlife at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Viggo Mortensen on the Gold Coast where he is filming Ron Howard's Thirteen Lives. Picture: Tertius Pickard

The Federal Government splashed $13m to lure the project to Queensland while the Palaszczuk Government sweetened the deal with its production attraction program.

It’s expected to employ 275 Queensland cast and crew and pump $45m into the local economy – part of a production boom in the state, and across Australia, in the post-COVID filming climate.

Joe Exotic starring Kate McKinnon is due to begin in Brisbane in July, ABC crime series Troppo will film in the Far North and George Clooney and Julia Roberts will film comedy flick Ticket to Paradise in the Whitsundays later this year.