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Watch the slick first trail­er for Deep­wa­ter Horizon

24 Mar 2016

Words by Joel Philpott

Mark Wahlberg heads up an impres­sive cast in Peter Berg’s drama­ti­sa­tion of the BP oil spill.

Inspired by the 2010 Macon­do well dis­as­ter below the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon, direc­tor Peter Berg (Lone Sur­vivor, Bat­tle­ship) looks to have turned the largest oil spill in US his­to­ry – killing 11 and dev­as­tat­ing the sur­round­ing ocean – into a thrilling old-school dis­as­ter thriller.

Mark Wahlberg is joined by John Malkovich, Kurt Rus­sell and Dylan O’Brian, the trail­er show­ing the crew’s strug­gle after a mal­func­tion fires an explo­sive sludge of oil, gas and mud into their off-shore oil rig. Their escape is plagued with flam­ing obsta­cles as we see the plat­form quick­ly become engulfed by a fero­cious blaze.

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Address­ing the eco­log­i­cal fall­out of the cat­a­stro­phe six years after the BP spill, the film joins Erin Brock­ovich in high­light­ing the human side of the destruc­tive, nat­ur­al resource-drain­ing oil indus­try. Watch the trail­er above and let us know what you think @LWLies

Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon hits cin­e­mas Sep­tem­ber 2016.

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