Peter Berg's disaster drama Deepwater Horizon already has Mark Wahlberg at the top of the cast, backed up by Kurt Russell, Dylan O'Brien and Gina Rodriguez. But still they arrive, and the latest actor to sign up for a trip to the belaugered rig is John Malkovich{
The film charts the events on the BP oil rig in the 48 hours leading up to the 2010 disaster and the day itself. The behind-the-scenes tale will highlight stories of real-life heroism around the incident, which were not made public at the time but appeared in the script’s source material, a New York Times article entitled 'Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hour'. The paper’s piece chronicled how 11 people were killed and 16 injured when the rig blew, and gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
The screenplay is by Matthew Michael Carnahan (Joe's brother), who also wrote Berg's 2007 Saudi actioner The Kingdom. Malkovich will be playing a stubborn BP executive who underestimates the scale of the problem. It's doubtful that the oil company will come out of this looking good...
Shooting starts in the summer, and Deepwater Horizon currently has a US release date of September 30, 2016.