Deepwater Horizon (Better This Time)
There was already a (pretty well-received) movie released in 2016 about the Deepwater Horizon disaster itself, starring Mark Wahlberg as a worker aboard the Transocean drilling rig that suffered a catastrophic explosion on April 20, 2010.
However, that movie only covers the blow-by-blow of the day of the explosion on the rig, relegating the aftermath—how only two people were prosecuted, and how the 87-day blowout spilled 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico—to a quick postscript. The film also doesn’t touch the safety shortcuts BP took that federal officials later found contributed to the disaster, nor how the company eventually paid only a fraction of the settlement for the damage it caused thanks to tax writeoffs. There’s room for a lot more dramatic storytelling for one of the biggest environmental disasters in U.S. history.
