Regarding the authenticity of the film, Mike Williams said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in September this year that he did not contact the film company to shoot the film, but he participated in the production process to make the film as close to the truth as possible. He said this was done for the 11 brothers who died. "If any family member thinks the movie doesn't live up to reality -- not that it's not touching, it's that it doesn't respect the truth -- then we've failed," he said.
In the movie, Mike Williams, played by Mark Wahlberg, was on video with his wife when the accident happened. He just hung up the phone when he heard the screeching of the engine, saw the lights flashing, and the alarm suddenly went off. But in the movie, he was still on a video call with his wife when the accident happened. As in the movie, his lights and computer screen blew out, and his first thought was an engine failure. The entire platform was suddenly powered off and plunged into darkness. He wanted to go to the engine control room to assist engineers in diagnosing the fault, but the first explosion occurred before he could get out of the hatch.
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