Rosario Dawson is 'Unstoppable' Alongside Denzel Washington
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It looks like Tony Scott's train thriller Unstoppable is living up to its title, and is back on the rails. The film was facing a delay thanks to Fox being leery of financing it, and its leading man, Denzel Washington, was reportedly set to disembark the project. But according to Variety, Washington is back on board, as is Chris Pine, but it takes more than two guys to get a train back on track. Sometimes you need the help of a fierce woman, and so Rosario Dawson has come on board. (I wonder just how many "nice caboose" jokes are going to be made by the male writers of the moviesphere. Or maybe I made the only one. Ahem.)
The film has Washington playing a veteran engineer who jumps on board a runaway train in order to help its young conductor (Pine) try to stop it. Naturally, it's stocked with toxic cargo, and is headed straight for a major city. It's not clear what part Dawson will play, but one would hope that she isn't a mere love interest. This is a film that's a race against the clock after all, and something tells me there's not a lot of time for kissing and toplessness when you're trying to prevent a train from poisoning a city. But then again, lots of grindhouse films achieved that, so who knows. We'll find out when Unstoppable begins filming this fall, with all aboard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-22-2009 @ 1:28PM
Chet said...
Nothing wrong with saying Rosario's got a nice caboose.
I look forward to see her playing off Denzel. The woman's certainly got the moxie to make even a damselic role interesting.
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8-22-2009 @ 2:06PM
Taylor said...
Clearly, the train is not going to cause as much damage as originally anticiapted if at all...or they stop it just. in. time.
The End.
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8-22-2009 @ 3:32PM
Pingles said...
Wasn't this a horrible made-for-TV movie about nuclear waste?
Super-train or somesuch?
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8-22-2009 @ 5:12PM
paul said...
it looks like it's gonna be a train wreck to me...(snark snark)
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9-25-2009 @ 4:44PM
randy said...
They are filming parts of the movie now in Brewster,Oh. Seems like the movie is going to pretty good.
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9-09-2009 @ 10:27PM
sidelines said...
And as of today(09-08-09) they started filming here in Port Allegany, PA. I am told they will be here for about a week filming wreck scenes, etc.
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9-09-2009 @ 8:40PM
concerned resident said...
We they are on track they started filming in my little ass town and well lets say the nearest large city is 2-3 hours away. They also closed a bridge to use our train tracks preventing me from getting to my home!
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