ROTTEN TOMATOES: "Flightplan" Director to Conduct Fox's "Runaway Train"

"Flightplan" Director to Conduct Fox's "Runaway Train"

by Scott Weinberg | August 23, 2005

Robert Schwentke, director of the upcoming Jodie Foster aero-thriller "Flightplan," has been tapped to bring Fox's "Runaway Train" to the big screen ... and no, it's not a remake of the old Jon Voight / Eric Roberts flick.

This "Train" is about "a rail company's frantic efforts to stop an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city."

"Constantine" screenwriter Mark Bomback impressed the Fox folks with his draft for the project, and apparently they're itchin' to get this one underway sooner than later.

Production is scheduled to begin early next year on the based-on-actual-events movie: "The pic is inspired by real-life events of a few years ago, when a runaway freight train carrying thousands of gallons of toxic acid hurtled along nearly 70 miles of track with no one aboard, threatening about 50,000 people."

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Aoiboy writes:
on Aug 23 2005 06:42 AM

Sounds like "Speed 3: Catch the train"

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pota1967 writes:
on Aug 23 2005 10:32 AM

How come there was no one on board the train? I guess since no one was hurt the suspense is gone--not that I want to see anyone hurt/killed

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synergyred writes:
on Aug 23 2005 03:27 PM

Damn you Aoiboy! You beat me to it. I was about to make a Speed refrence.

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Aoiboy writes:
on Aug 23 2005 03:31 PM

In reply to this comment (#825418)
LOL ^_^ Oh, come on, it was so obvious it's nobody's pride... !

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Spike1967 writes:
on Aug 23 2005 04:59 PM

I think I'd rather see them remake the John Voight/Eric Roberts flick instead.

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speelbergo writes:
on Aug 24 2005 10:55 AM

In reply to this comment (#825416)
[b]More Like Under Siege 2 1/2....[/b]
Revenge of the Train!!!

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