Unstoppable: Interview with director Tony Scott

Tony Scott is the director of "Unstoppable," about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. The film, which stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, is being released by Twentieth Century Fox on November 12.

The director says it was the first, and likely the only time, in his career when a studio took on his first draft with no notes before beginning to assemble their cast and crew. “Mark’s script was the best page-turner I’ve ever read,” says Scott.  “I flew through it.  The characters became stronger as the story unfolded and the action took care of itself; it has a forward momentum and it never lets up.”

 

 

Unstoppable: Interview with actor Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington stars in "Unstoppable," about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. The film, directed by Tony Scott and also starring Chris Pine, is being released by Twentieth Century Fox on November 12.

I must be insane,” Washington laughs, trying to explain why on earth he agreed to run across the top of a moving train for one of the film’s many action set pieces.  “The train is going down the track at 50 miles an hour, I’m running across the top, a helicopter is hovering ten feet above me, I’m hanging off the side; it’s crazy!  I was very happy when my stuntman left town because I knew Tony wouldn’t be asking me to do his job anymore,” he jokes.


 

 

 

Unstoppable: Interview with actor Chris Pine

Chris Pine stars in "Unstoppable," about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. The film, directed by Tony Scott and also starring Denzel Washington, is being released by Twentieth Century Fox on November 12.

“When you read a script, you forget that you actually have to do what’s written on the page,” says Pine.  “Whether that means that every scene you’re in takes place in the cab of a train, or whether your character jumps from the back of a truck driving 50 miles an hour onto a train that’s going even faster.”

 

Black Swan: Interview with star Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman stars in "Black Swan," directed by Darren Aronofsky.  The film is being released by Fox Searchlight December 3.

 

I loved the authenticity of all these very real dance world details in the screenplay, and I especially loved how Nina’s story parallels ‘Swan Lake.’  I saw her as someone really trying to break free of a spell – trying to break free of everyone else defining who she is and trying to see through all of it who she really is as a person and an artist–Natalie Portman

 

Black Swan: Interview with writer/director Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky is the director of "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. The film, which is already an Oscar favorite, is being released by Fox Searchlight on December 3.

“The story became about Nina’s fears of losing who she is,” continues Aronofsky.  “That is something I think everyone can relate to, but Nina becomes completely overtaken by those fears until her reality becomes inseparable from the character she is playing.”