Fords Sub Under Attack

Former Soviet submariners have launched an attack against the soon-to-be made K-19: The Widowmaker, claiming the filmmakers erroneously portray the men's involvement in the 1961 nuclear sub disaster.

"It portrays our crew as a bunch of stupid, disrespectful, eternally drunk Soviet sailors who played cards as the alarms were sounding," ex-crew member Yury Mukhin tells Daily Variety.

K-19 purports to tell the true story of the Soviet Union's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a reactor malfunction while on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The disaster ultimately claimed 28 lives and nearly led to a confrontation between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.

The story is based on the account by the boat's tough captain, Nikolai Zateyev, who is played in the movie by Ford. Zateyev must not only save his crew from an undersea Chernobyl-like nuclear accident, but also must stop the incident from propelling the Soviet Union into an all-out world war with the United States.

Survivors, worried how the personal details of their lives would be used in the movie, met with Ford in December and were given a copy of the script to review. The meeting reportedly went smoothly and all the parties involved decided that the president of the St. Petersburg Submariners' Club, Igor Kudrin, should act as a consultant for the film.

You can catch the rest by hitting the link above. Basically filming will still go on later this month, on an authentic Soviet submarine shooting in Russia, Iceland and Canada.
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