Lionsgate has released the first featurette for the upcoming movie, DEEPWATER HORIZON. It contains interviews with Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson and Dylan O’Brien and it is a fascinating look at how they brought the true story to the big screen – including building an actual oil rig on a water tank (one of the biggest sets ever to be constructed!). Take a look at what they had to say in the video player above.

Inspired by the true story that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010, the story chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival in the face of what would become one of the biggest man-made disasters in world history.

Deepwater Horizon

The film stars  Mark Wahlberg (Lone Survivor, The Fighter), Kurt Russell (Furious 7, The Hateful Eight), John Malkovich (RED, Burn After Reading), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”), and Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, Nine).

Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Battleship) is directing the screenplay written by Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom). 

The screenplay is based upon the 2010 New York Times article Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, RED) and Mark Vahradian (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, RED) are producing for di Bonaventura Pictures along with Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, David Womark (Life of Pi) for Closest to the Hole and Leverage Entertainment. The film is executive produced by Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King at Participant Media.

DEEPWATER HORIZON hits cinemas September 29th, 2016.

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