One of the most fascinating filmmaking voices of the moment, and certainly one of the most prolific, J.C. Chandor has been moving from project to project — "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," "A Most Violent Year" — shifting from one genre to the next with ease. He had been on track to get his biggest project yet going, "Deepwater Horizon" starring Mark Wahlberg, but the director's participation has sunk.
Chandor has exited the movie over the standard "creative differences." Instead, Wahlberg's "Lone Survivor" bud Peter Berg has stepped in to helm, and yeah, "creative differences" starts to make a whole lot of sense now. Penned by Matthew Sand and Matthew Carnahan, the film is based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, and chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival in the face of what would...
