Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon

This tape will tell about the consequences of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, which occurred on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, 80 kilometers from the coast of Louisiana, and was the cause of the second largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States. Read more At the time of the explosion, there were 126 people at the station. Among them, 17 were injured and 11 died. In June 2010, data appeared that 2 more people died during the liquidation of the disaster. About 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in 152 days due to damage to the well pipes at a depth of 1,500 meters, the oil slick reached an area of ​​75,000 square kilometers. The film featured such stars as: Mark Wahlberg ("The Fighter", "The Renegades", "Two Barrels"), Dylan O'Brien ("The Maze Runner", "Shoots", the TV series "Werewolf"), Kurt Russell ("Vanilla Sky", "The Crash", "The Hateful Eight", voice acting for "Lady and the Tramp"), John Malkovich ("In the Line of Fire", "A Place in the Heart", "Substitute", "Air prison"), Kate Hudson ("How to get rid of a guy in 10 days", "Almost famous", "Bride war") and others. The film was directed by Peter Berg, who previously worked on such films as "Survivor", "Hancock", "Sea Battle". For the latter, the director was nominated for the "Golden Raspberry" anti-award for "Worst Director". The film was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2016. It is also planned to be shown at the festival in Zurich on September 28 of the same year. The film will be released worldwide on September 29, 2016.