Denzel Washington Is Back on Unstoppable

By Kevin Coll • July 23, 2009 • 3 Comments

Almost 2 weeks ago Denzel Washington dropped out of the latest Tony Scott project, Unstoppable. Now it seems that the studio, 20th Century Fox and Washington have struck a deal bringing him back on the project as well as start production in the fall.

Washington was the first person to be attached to the Tony Scott project which would see him play a veteran engineer who jumps into a locomotive with a young conductor (Chris Pine) to stop an unmanned runaway train loaded with toxic cargo. The film is based off the Mark Bomback script which is based on true events.

Production had slowed down on the project as Fox couldn’t justify a large action budget as well the stars salaries of Scott, Washington and Pine. “Sources said the studio asked Scott to shave $3 million off his upfront salary and Washington to shave $4 million off his. Washington declined, and his WME agent Ed Limato began looking for other film jobs for his star’s fall slot.”

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