Fresh off a starring role in Star Trek, Chris Pine stars as new conductor Will Colson. In his fifth collaboration with Scott, Washington plays veteran railroad engineer Frank Barnes. The Oscar-nominated movie, which hit theaters in November 2010, chronicles railroad workers’ attempt to stop an unmanned runaway train.
It wasn’t at all.”īased on the true story of the CSX-8888 incident of May 2001, Unstoppable is an old-school action-adventure. The New Orleans–born actor who plays Ned in Unstoppable says he sensed “concern that was going to be the rural Taking of Pelham. “I think Denzel and Tony wanted to prove that they could get it right,” Lew Temple says.
While The Hangover reigned supreme at the box office that summer, the 2009 Pelham made less than $70 million stateside on a $100 million budget. Club called it “bracingly awful.” Writing for The Atlantic, former New York mayor Ed Koch said it was disappointing.
The former, an update of the 1974 crime drama, failed to connect with critics. Both The Taking of Pelham 123 and Unstoppable revolved around trains. As Tony Scott’s remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 departed theaters in August 2009, he and longtime collaborator/actor Denzel Washington boarded Unstoppable.
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