Unstoppable
Unstoppable is a 2010 American disaster action thriller film directed and produced by Tony Scott, written by Mark Bomback, and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. It is based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it. It was the last film Scott directed before his death in 2012.
Plot
While two yard hostlers are moving a mixed-freight Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR) train at Fuller Yard in northern Pennsylvania, Dewey, the engineer, realizes that a trailing-point switch ahead is not correctly aligned and leaves the cab of lead locomotive 777 to change it, setting the throttle to idle. However, it pops into full power before he can get back on, leaving the train unattended going south at full speed down the mainline.
More details
| author | Mark Bomback |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Pennsylvania |
| director | Tony Scott |
| editor | Chris Lebenzon Robert Duffy |
| events | runaway train |
| genre | action thriller |
| keywords | boxcar burn out classification yard conductor coupler crush derail dynamic brakes dynamic braking expect facing and trailing fast food federal railroad administration food industry force hooter hopper car kill lock move phenol pickup truck railroad engineer railway coupling restraining order rip track run side state police trailing-point train driver tv news warn yard yard hostlers yardmaster |
| musicBy | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
| producer | Alex Young Eric McLeod Julie Yorn Mimi Rogers Tony Scott |
| productionCompany | Dune Entertainment Millbrook Farm Productions Prospect Park Scott Free Productions |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | New York Ohio Pennsylvania Pittsburgh West Virginia |
| theme | disaster survival |