Families of the men killed in the world's worst oil rig disaster have branded plans to make a television drama out of the tragedy 'an invasion of our deepest wounds'. In all, 167 men died when a gas leak set off explosions that ripped apart the Piper Alpha platform 120 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast in July 1988. The BBC and STV Studios are looking to make a factual drama to retell the events of that night. But families of workers who died say their loss should not be 'trivialised into a plot for entertainment'.Why not? This is no different to other disasters.
Patrick McLaughlin's father Charles, an electrician, also died in the disaster, aged just 46. Mr McLaughlin said: 'To have actors who could be portraying someone who was killed that night doesn't feel right. I know if there was someone playing my father I wouldn't be happy. Families have been through enough.'
Welp, it's a historical disaster, like Chernoble or Bhopal or 9/11. And no-one objected to those, or if they did, they were rightly ignored.
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I'm thinking of the continual flood of war movies.
"I'm thinking of the continual flood of war movies."
Increasingly realistic ones, too.
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