DEEPWATER HORIZON (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Mark Wahlberg (The Departed), Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight), John Malkovich (Con Air), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Ethan Suplee (The Wolf of Wall Street), Henry Frost (Dallas Buyers Club), Jeremy Sande (Hayride)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), director; Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z) and Matthew Sand (Ninja Assassin), writers; Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers), Mark Vahradian (Man on a Ledge) and David Womark (Life of Pi), producers; Steve Jablonsky (Battleship), composer; Enrique Chediak (127 Hours), cinematographer; Gabriel Fleming (One Thousand Years) and Colby Parker Jr. (Ant-Man), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In April 2010, the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank, causing the biggest oil spill in the US history, and leaving dozens of workers trapped inside. Some of the survivors, including Mike Williams (Wahlberg), try to make it out alive…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Based on the real-life tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which caused one of the biggest natural disasters in American history, this is an intense and dramatic survival story that hopefully won’t ignore the event’s most devastating consequences.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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