'Unstoppable' inspired by actual events

Inspired by actual events, Unstoppable comes from director Tony Scott’s signature mark of propulsive action rooted in the reality of ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances. The film is about a veteran train engineer (Denzel Washington) and ayoung conductor’s (Chris Pine) race against time to stop an unmannedrunaway train — effectively a missile the size of a skyscraper — andprevent disaster in a heavily populated area.The film, whichrecently opened in theatres in the US, has already garnered a lot ofappreciation from audiences as well as critics whodescribe the film as‘an edge-of-your-seat drama’, ‘a good popcorn movie with solidacting by all the main characters’ and ‘an action-packed, 99-minutethrill ride that’s filled with sparking metal’. Some are evencalling it ‘The first worthy successor toSpeed.’!Filmmaker Tony Scott is a master of motion picturessuch as Crimson Tide, Man On Fire, True Romance and Top Gun, which mix non-stopaction with finely-tuned characters and Unstoppable adds to that rich legacy.“It’s a movie that starts out at fifty miles per hour and ends up at150 mph; it’s speed-on-speed,” says Scott.DenzelWashington adds, “The train is the star of the movie which is going downthe track at 50 miles an hour. I’m running across the top, a helicopter ishovering ten feet above me and I’m hanging off the side; it’'scrazy!”Chris Pine, who plays Will Colson, a newbie conductor thrown into an impossible situation when a runaway train threatens to destroy an entire community, says, “Tony is a master of kinetic filmmaking; plus, he knows how to craft an action movie and balance that with substantial characters. Denzel has a tremendous ability to convey absolute truth, which is obviously the goal of any actor.” Unstoppable releases in India today in English and Hindi.Follow us on Twitter for more stories