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Gulf oil spill getting big-screen treatment, with disaster drama 'Deepwater Horizon'
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Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 1:35 PM     Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 1:43 PM
 By Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune 
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The BP oil spill is getting the big-screen treatment, with Summit Entertainment and Participant Media moving forward with plans for the disaster drama "Deepwater Horizon." Stuntman-turned-director Ric Roman Waugh is in negotiations to helm the project, according to Deadline.

Michael DeMocker, The Times-PicayuneFireboats try to extinguish the blaze on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig south of Venice after an explosion left at least 15 workers injured and 11 missing on Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
Screenwriter Matthew Sands is penning the script, based on The New York Times' blow-by-blow deconstruction of the April 2010 oil-rig explosion and its subsequent sinking some 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. That article, published in December 2010 under the headline "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour," was written by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul.
The explosion resulted in what is considered the the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, but the film reportedly will focus largely on the human toll of the disaster, chronicling the events leading up to the explosion -- which killed 11 and injured 16 others -- and the efforts of the survivors to stay alive in the explosion's hellish aftermath.

The film's IMDB.com synopsis: "A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history."
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce, with Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei of Imagenation Abu Dhabi executive-producing. No casting announcements have been made. It is unclear when and where the project will shoot, although it is tentatively targeting a 2013 release.
Earlier this year, Waugh directed the Shreveport-shot crime drama "Snitch" for Summit, starring Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jon Bernthal and Barry Pepper.



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