New York Times' Gulf Oil Spill Article Being Made Into A Movie

LOS ANGELES — The New York Times' dramatic 8,500-word story about the April 20, 2010, oil rig explosion off Louisiana's Gulf Coast, which killed 11 people and led to the worst spill in U.S. history, is being made into a movie.

Summit Entertainment, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi said Tuesday that they have acquired the film rights to the article, "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour," published on Dec. 25 and written by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul.

Matthew Sand will write the screenplay. Talks are ongoing to have "Transformers" producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura produce the project under his Di Bonaventura Pictures banner.

Summit, the studio behind the "Twilight" franchise, said the film will portray the heroism of Deepwater's crew and evoke the raw emotion depicted in the newspaper piece.

Comments

[GeorgeP922]

07:13 PM on 03/11/2011

Ugh, this is going to be a disaster, sure a film is better than no film.

But when you tell me the creators of Twilight are doing this, they are trying to get a loser from Transformers, and it is funded by UAE (ie OIL) money, and they say:
"film will portray the heroism of Deepwater's crew and evoke the raw emotion depicted in the newspaper piece."

I guess this will be just about the explosion.

Will they make heros of the dead, will they say their names?

Will they show how BP tried to isolate and intimidate the survivors?

Will. they dramatise the PR room at BP were they hatched on how to coverup the spill for as long as they could?

[Red45]

01:30 PM on 03/11/2011

It'll be interesting to see which side these movie makers are on: (1) the truth or (2) the BS that the oil industry has put out that the damage is all gone and it wasn't all that bad to start with.

[GeorgeP922]

07:15 PM on 03/11/2011

Well it's being funded by "Imagenation Abu Dhabi"
http://www.imagenationabudhabi.com/

And a bunch of other rich people.

I wouldn't be suprised if BP and the AIP is behind this film too.

[shangrolah]

05:51 AM on 03/11/2011

A lot of money for an 8,500 word article. Who gets the money, the reporters or the paper?

[totaldisbelief]

03:08 PM on 03/10/2011

http://knucklz.com/2011/03/09/ak---judge-wont-force-exxon-to-pay-for-further-oil-spill-cleanup.aspx
is it fair?

[Cowoak]

05:44 PM on 03/09/2011

The title should be
The Abyss II
"Deepwater Horizon's Final Hour,"

[MoralHumanist]

01:43 PM on 03/09/2011

Wow Really? A movie to cover up that this may not have been accidental? That the eviction of the gulf coast was planned prior to the spill?

Hmmmmm

Looks like that wonderful propagandized/patriotic Flight 93 movie.

[KarlaElisa]

01:29 PM on 03/09/2011

Well, this is one part of the story. But I'd prefer the ongoing 'What about the Oil?' Documentary myself.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

01:06 PM on 03/09/2011

Hmm, show be interesting and informative if it doesn't drift away from the article. Little is known about the people that died and survived that explosion which is just a pity.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

01:07 PM on 03/09/2011

*should

[logicanada]

12:46 PM on 03/09/2011

Pleeeeeeze ! No Schwarzenegger, Stalone, Willis, Rourke or Jet Lee.

[Laurie Allen]

11:59 AM on 03/09/2011

More info on BPOilSpill+ sick. This comes from many sources. Some people disagree about the cause. Some people even still deny it is happening. We have to keep those tourists coming and people spending money to buy seafood. But this is not debatable. These are sick people who need help. Someone has to listen. Something should be done.

http://bpoil.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/ex-bp-cleanup-worker-speaks-people-are-sick-and-dying-in-the-gulf/

BPSick+help http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54132

http://www.dailypaul.com/153453/bp-oil-spill-people-are-getting-sick-all-over-the-gulf-coast

This references Robin Young of Alabama. She is a friend of my daughter Robyn. They have both been poisoned. Young has been doing the work. She traveled between Alabama and my property in New Orleans to work for recognition and meet with officials. Article also refers to NOLA attorney Stuart Smith.
http://oilspillaction.com/thousands-of-people-along-the-gulf-coast-suffer-%E2%80%98bp-crud%E2%80%99-video
Staying well and avoiding sickness and accidents and having health care to treat pain is important. For years, people have been trying to make it easier to get. It just kept getting more and more expensive and harder and harder to get. Then the country got an Affordable Health Care Bill. And, sure it was a compromise. But, forget that. NOW, people are sick and dying as documented above and there are more from other situations. Something is very wrong.

[sensimilla]

11:24 AM on 03/09/2011

transformers, twilight...this WILL be a steaming piece of doodoo.

[deepfreezevideo]

09:40 AM on 03/09/2011

Revisionist pap.

[Nelson Montana]

08:51 AM on 03/09/2011

A pandering pile of crap. Make that two piles if you include the movie.

[shangrolah]

05:52 AM on 03/11/2011

Three, if you think of the studio execs getting rich off it.

[edgeninja]

08:51 AM on 03/09/2011

Will there be giant robots in it?

[Jazmo]

10:14 AM on 03/09/2011

I was thinking the oil rig might fold into a machine that sucks all the oil out of the water - and looks like Megan Fox.

[GeneParmesanPI]

08:49 AM on 03/09/2011

just the right guy to produce the film.... the guy who helped bring us wonderfully stereotypical talking semi-trucks