Réalisation: J.C. Chandor
Distribution: Mark Wahlberg
Genre: Drame
Origine: USA
Sortie: 2016
Synopsis: Adaptation d'un article centré sur le courage des membres d'une plate-forme pétrolière du Golfe du Mexique, au moment de la catastrophe écologique d'avril 2010.
Tournage en avril 2015 avec Mark Wahlberg.
Enfin un cinéaste qui retrouve l'ambition d'un James Cameron période Abyss (construction en dur de la plateforme, une centaine d'acteur) ça va être du grand spectacle dans la continuité thématique de ces précédents films
http://collider.com/jc-chandor-a-most-violent-year-deepwater-horizon/
Before we wrap up, I wanted to ask you about Deepwater Horizon.
CHANDOR: There’s things about that movie – I’m writing it right now. So, I’m working with David Barstow, the original writer of the New York Times piece that it’s going to be based on, and he’s gone back and we’ve had this whole team of research assistants that have gone through like every public trial. It’s amazing working with them. It’s so fun. If I wrote that, you would not believe it so we’re literally just doing what happened. There’s sort of no other option. I mean, it’s BP, if we lied and made stuff up, we would be sued so …
Who’s perspective are you telling it from?
CHANDOR: Everyone’s that was on the rig. It’s just the rig though. So you’re on the rig. So it’s sort of a cross section of what happened that day, which is this unbelievable confluence of events, basically. Some BP execs land on the rig to like, give an award, but they’re not really there to give an award. They’re actually there to say “hurry up” because they were tremendously behind schedule and literally it blows up a couple hours later. And then everyone has to get off. I’m sort of structuring this film almost like this tragic sort of poem as to where human beings’ relationship with oil is right now, which is we need it, we love it, we want it, we’re using a lot of it and we’re running out of it, and that’s just the facts. Everything in the movie will be what happened and Lionsgate is making a huge, exciting bet that there’s an audience out there for big, dramatic blockbuster, summer-type blockbuster storytelling. And I don’t think the movie’s coming out in the summer, but it’s a big ass movie but about real people, real things that happened on this planet right now and those are the kind of things I’m fascinated in so I feel humbled and honored to be given the chance in this day and age when most of the movies on that scale of storytelling are straight sort of entertainment – which this will be. You can’t make it up it’s so dramatic, but it’s also really interesting just about where we are right now with our relationship to oil. We’re building the set right now. I’m trying to hurry up and finish the script before they – it’s never good if the set is finished before the script is.
Are you building a rig on a soundstage?
CHANDOR: We’re building a rig in the parking lot and then gonna surround it in a huge tank of water. So we’re building the rig almost life-size based on the original plans, which are public record, so we’re literally building the rig in the Six Flags Great Adventure parking lot.
Around here?
CHANDOR: No in Louisiana for casting purposes. A lot of the extras and everything are from down there. That’s where a lot of the workers were from so we’re gonna be very hot next spring. That movie starts shooting in April.
For casting, last I heard was Mark Wahlberg.
CHANDOR: He’s in the movie. He’s very attached. It’s a huge ensemble though so there’s probably eight main characters and then 126 other people – but more than that, probably 150 people cast so it’s gonna be a lot of casting.
, on va avoir droit à un blockbuster bête et calibré, Chandor quitte le projet à 3 mois du tournage "over creative differences". Le studio aurait choisit Peter Berg pour le remplacer.
