Deepwater Horizon

Well, if they can make a found footage horror film about the Chernobyl disaster, why not launch a drama about the 2010 BP oil spill? Deadline reports (via ComingSoon) that Summit Entertainment and Participant Media are currently negotiating with stuntman-turned-director Ric Roman Waugh to helm their film about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, titled Deepwater Horizon, after the massive oil rig that first exploded and then caught fire while drilling on the Macondo Prospect oil field, located off the southeast Louisiana coast. The disaster on the Deepwater then kicked off the oil spill, which was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and is considered the second largest environmental disaster in U.S. history (behind the Dust Bowl). Sounds fun, right?

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