Casting 'Oilmageddon': Who's Playing Who in 'BP, the Movie'

Michael Sheen -- BP CEO Tony Hayward's twin? Check out the rest of the cast.

ByABC News
June 16, 2010, 3:07 AM

June 16, 2010 — -- It starts with a fatal explosion. Then, a toxic poison seeps into our nation's waters. Fish die. Birds die. Turtles die. Are people next? No one knows, and no one can figure out how to stop the awful brown flood.

Superman ain't suiting up. The X-Men are exhausted. It's up to mere mortals to make a happy ending out of this Doomsday scenario.

So goes the drama that is the BP oil spill, an epic disaster that makes "Deep Impact" look about as scary as "Scooby-Doo 2." Of course, should the story go to the big screen, it's likely to get a big dose of Hollywood fact-fudging, and naturally, a group of actors who kind of, sort of resemble the real-life cast in the crisis.

Below, check out who's who and what might go down in "Oilmageddon: Behind the BP Blowup."