HARRISON FORD'S K-19 UNDER CRITICISM
February 6th, 2001
The much harolded Cold war submarine extravaganza K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER, starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, is generating some bad vibes in the motherland. According to reports, Soviet submariners are up in arms about the script, claiming that the Intermedia Films production insults them and gets technical details wrong about the 1961 nuclear disaster the script is based on.
"It portrays our crew as a bunch of stupid, disrespectful, eternally drunk Soviet sailors who played cards as the alarms were sounding," former crew member Yury Mukhin told Variety.
In 1961 on its maiden voyage the K-19's reactor malfunctioned crippling it. It was the Soviet Union's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Stranded in the North Sea, a hand-full of the crew managed to survive.
Last year crew members requested a copy of the script and actually got a chance to met with Ford, who will play K-19 captain Nikolai Zateyev. Everything reportedly went well, with Igor Kudrin, president of the St. Petersburg Submariners' Club, agreeing to act as a consultant for the film.
Now this week Kudin is complaining that all is not well, and that they have serious misgivings about how the story is being told.
Kathryn Bigelow (STRANGE DAYS) is directing.
-- Chris
(Source: Variety)
"It portrays our crew as a bunch of stupid, disrespectful, eternally drunk Soviet sailors who played cards as the alarms were sounding," former crew member Yury Mukhin told Variety.
In 1961 on its maiden voyage the K-19's reactor malfunctioned crippling it. It was the Soviet Union's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Stranded in the North Sea, a hand-full of the crew managed to survive.
Last year crew members requested a copy of the script and actually got a chance to met with Ford, who will play K-19 captain Nikolai Zateyev. Everything reportedly went well, with Igor Kudrin, president of the St. Petersburg Submariners' Club, agreeing to act as a consultant for the film.
Now this week Kudin is complaining that all is not well, and that they have serious misgivings about how the story is being told.
Kathryn Bigelow (STRANGE DAYS) is directing.
-- Chris
(Source: Variety)
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