This November production was to begin on the new Denzel Washington film “Unstoppable” which was to be directed by Tony Scott (the two have collaborated many times before on projects like Crimson Tide, Deja Vu, Man on Fire and most recently on The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3). The film was also set to co-star Chris Pine (the new Captain James T. Kirk).
However, a few weeks ago production was stopped just before it started due to budget concerns. The studio wanted to rework the budget to get it considerably smaller (can’t blame them considering the economics of our times and the fact that Scott and Washington just basically bombed with “The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3”.
Well, word has now come out that Denzel Washington has walked off the project all together. There are reports that Fox asked Washington to take a pay cut for the movie… his answer was clearly not positive.
So where does this leave the project? My money says it ain’t gonna happen at all.
“Unstoppable” was to revolve around a high speed runaway train filled with toxic chemicals speeding out of control and an engineer who is trying to stop it before disaster strikes.
