This weekends bigbudget blowitallup action film unstoppable, about an outof control locomotive hauling deadly cargo, claims to be based on true events. The story revolves around a train that is accidentally sent down the tracks unmanned and the conductors, will colson played by chris pine and frank barnes played by denzel washington have to work together to get the train to stop. United states november 12, 2010 nationwide canada november 12, 2010. The movie unstoppable is inspired by a true life event, and although a good bit of it is historically accurate, the movie does often get factually derailed. I just recently bought the movie unstoppable on ondemand, and when was there an unmanned train that was a possible problem.
The film s plot is based on two train yards on the allegheny and west virginia railroad. Gangsters, fighters, athletes, serial killers, celebrities and so much morethese films are the best of the basedonatruestory stories. With the caboose of scotts taking of pelham 123 barely in the distance, the filmmaker turned to unstoppable, a trainchase picture loosely inspired by a true story and perhaps just a smidgen by runaway train, the 1985 film based on an akira kurosawa script. Pennsylvania man lived the drama that inspired unstoppable. Unstoppable sparks flying at stanton curve bellaire, oh duration. Read the true story of the incident unstoppable was based on. Released in 2010, the movie unstoppable has a rating of 86 percent on rotten tomatoes and was nominated for best sound editing at the academy awards. In terms of sheer craftsmanship, this is a superb film. I just watched one of the most thrilling movies i have ever seen.
The train company tries a few things, including a derailer, which prompts the man in charge of the derailer to tell the press, son of a female dog wont know what hit him. The 2001 incident upon which the movie is based involved a runaway csx transportation engine, which sported the number 8888 not 777, as. Its about a runaway train, supposedly based on a true incident. Theres a few creative liberties taken in the film, but they stayed remarkably true to life. Unstoppable is based on a real runaway train incident from may 2001 when a 47 car csx train left a toledo, ohio rail yard without an engineer and wasnt stopped until it had ran 66 miles through. Marysville man was inspiration for runaway train movie. Im guessing that some events in the movie are fake.
The film was the last film tony scott directed before his death. As fast, loud, and relentless as the train at the center of the story, unstoppable is perfect popcorn entertainment and director tony scotts best movie in years. Its a movie thats based on a true story, an unthinkable ordeal, one unimaginable act. This friday is the premiere of the movie unstoppable. Bethany hamilton unstoppable the film bethany hamilton. There were 5 other movies released on the same date, including skyline, tangled and helena from the wedding. So what were those true events and what rail company was really involved. The movie is as relentless as the train, slowly gathering momentum before a relentless final hour of continuous suspense. What was the true story about in the movie unstoppable. The incident involved a csx transportation freight train in the u.
Unstoppable 610 movie clip dean escapes the asylum 2004 hd by movieclips. Certainly worth the money but i would have taken unstoppable out and put something like crimson tide in instead. It was, though the movie was not realistic in its representation of what happened. Yes, the 20th century fox film unstoppable is inspired by actual events, but very loosely. Unstoppable is a journey, based on a true story, that has become the most personal and transparent project i have ever made regarding my faith. Unstoppable is a 2010 american action thriller film directed and produced by tony scott and starring denzel washington and chris pine. According to his own confessions, he had killed over three thousand people. Ten secrets behind the making of unstoppable garrett. The freight train pulls out of a siding with no engineer on board and accelerates to 70 m. The movie unstoppable was based on the reallife csx 8888, also known as the crazy eights, occurrence.
Bethany hamilton on sharing her real story in unstoppable. With denzel washington, chris pine, rosario dawson, ethan suplee. Inspiration behind unstoppable weighs in on crash youtube. Heres a video that covers what really happened that was the inspiration for the movie.
Unstoppable the story behind the film erin corrado. Staring denzel washington, the movie tells the story of an unmanned runaway train and the attempts made to stop it. Loosely based on a true story from 2001, unstoppable is a tension packed, heartracing juggernaut of a movie about an unmanned, runaway train carrying a payload of highly flammable fuel and toxic waste that is heading straight for the densely populated of stanton, pennsylvania at 70mph. Or was it something else that made it to be based on a true story. Together, in hundreds of theaters across america, we will discover with our eyes wide open, that life is stronger than death, good is stronger than evil, and faith is stronger than doubt. The taking of pelham 123, which came out in 2009, was a movie about a hijacked new york city subway train. Unstoppable 2010 film alchetron, the free social encyclopedia robert duffy unstoppable spot welders. A movie depicting a life of a true serial killer henry lee lucas. It is the story of a runaway train, and as the poster for the movie boasts, its inspired by a true story. The whole story behind unstoppable when we first started creating it, the director and i had set out to make just a short film, like 12 minutes of me just action surfing.
The true story behind true story based on the real case of an accused murderer and a disgraced journalist, true story reveals that telling the truth can be a slippery concept. The real event took place through western ohio on may 15, 2001. The siege is quite the surprise of a movie which i regard highly in the denzel filmography and man on fire speaks for itself in being one of the great films of the late tony scott. Movies based on a true story netflix official site. Loosely based on a true story, the movie shows is about an exorcism of a young girl who didnt survive it. Everything you need to know about unstoppable movie 2010. The film was released in the united states and canada on. Unstoppable is a movie about an unmanned, outofcontrol freight train. Maybe the kirk cameron army succeeded and convinced facebook that unstoppable wasnt spam. I was interested in seeing this film since i live in latrobe, pennsylvania. At a pennsylvania rail yard, some clueless workers let an unmanned train get loose.
When production was done, hosfelds reallife role ended up on the cuttingroom floor, his character. Whats the story despite being born with one leg to a singleparent family on the wrong side of the tracks, anthony robles overcomes every obstacle to become an undefeated collegiate wrestling star, threetime allamerican, 2011 ncaa national champion, twotime espy award winner and a national wrestling hall of fame inductee. One of those days was actually immortalized in the movie unstoppable. The movie unstoppable is inspired by a truelife event, and although a good bit of it is historically accurate, the movie does often get factually derailed. Will unstoppable be unstoppable at the box office this weekend. Tuesdays amtrak accident, however, stopped jon in his tracks. Or, maybe kirk cameron lied to his fans, made up a phony story, and created a false controversy in order to promote his movie. This is the true story of the movie called unstoppable the runaway train that many people know as triple seven. Denzel washington and director tony scott teamed up for the fifth and last time for the action thriller about a runaway train loaded with dangerous cargo. Unstoppable may be the least realistic movie based on a true story, ever. Was the movie unstoppable 2010 based on a true story. Everything you need to know about unstoppable movie. Unstoppable is part of international ocean film tour volume 7 starting this march, get ticket for events in germany and meet director lieber films.
Rebecca murray is editorinchief for and has been an approved film and television critic for rotten tomatoes since 2002. How is the movie unstoppable based on a true story. Unstoppable is loosely based on the crazy eights unmanned train incident in 2001. The 2001 incident upon which the movie is based involved a runaway csx transportation engine, which sported the number 8888 not 777, as in the movie. Theres a few creative liberties taken in the film, but they stayed remarkably true. While theres no doubt that inaccuracies will abound it is hollywood after all, it should be at least remotely entertaining. Unstoppable was released in 2010 on friday, november 12, 2010 in 3,100 theaters. Twentieth century fox denzel washington, right, and chris pine play engineers trying to halt a runaway train in the new film unstoppable, based on a true incident that occurred in ohio in 2001. Unstoppable movie clips and new images starring chris pine and. The thrill of tony scotts unstoppable, in which a runaway freight train.
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