Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: Denzel standing on top of the train with his arms up after Will makes his run – 'the Tony Scott staple of these little images that after you see the movie, you still have the image in your head.'
• Chris: The Ryan Judd helicopter attempt to stop the train – 'I counted 2 trains, 3 choppers, and a fleet of fire trucks, police cars, and a pickup truck in the same frame.'
• Tarantino: Ned arriving at the end in his red truck and Chris Pine jumping in – 'whiplash exciting.'

• Bald Denzel as the 'kind of an asshole who knows everything' – 'one of the only actors who can pull this off.'
• Ethan Suplee and TJ Miller as the fuck-up combo.
• The financial politics of the railroad – the wage gap dynamic between veteran engineers being forced into retirement and cheaper rookie replacements. 'Hits home stronger now than it did then.'
• Tarantino: 'The mastery of Tony Scott. Every time you see it, you see another level of how the movie's working.'
• Chris: 'A Mission Control movie' – Rosario Dawson's yardmaster scenes are 'very Ed Harris in Apollo 13.'

• Chris: Railway safety field trips. 'No need to put kids on trains when there's also chemical trains going by.'
• Flip phones – 'What was she texting, like 333344563322?'
• Denzel's daughters working at Hooters – 'the whole Hooters thing, it seems like it's on the tail end.'
• Chris Pine's wife Darcy inexplicably showing up at the end and everything being OK.

• Martin Campbell almost directed the film.
• Bill: The Chris Pine part is 'such an obvious 1998-2002 Matt Damon part.' Tarantino countered: 'This is a Christian Slater part from the 90s.'
• Chris: Miles Teller for a modern version – 'he's got the beaten up face, he's from that 'Philadelphia' area.'
• Tony Scott used real newscasters as much as possible because he thought it would be more authentic.

• Kevin Corrigan – 'a staple of independent movies in the 90s' now playing a cool, standout character in a big action movie.
• Kevin Dunn as Galvin – 'sneaky great IMDb' including Dave, Warrior, 'Draft Day', and Veep.
• Kevin Chapman as Bunny – 'the guy who's always the Boston guy in every movie.'

Lew Temple as Ned – 'gets 3 scenes including the most important moment in the movie plus the funny moment in the diner.' Tarantino compared his arc to Vossler in 'Crimson Tide', where a minor character grows to save the day.

Bill would recast Darcy (Chris Pine's wife) – 'maybe a little Michelle Monaghan.'

• Based on the 2001 CSX 8888 incident where a runaway train traveled 66 miles through Northwest Ohio. The real train carried thousands of gallons of molten phenol.
• Chris Pine performed all his own stunts. Denzel does not like heights and had to be Jedi mind-tricked by Tony Scott into getting on top of the train.
• The train was empty so it was rocking even more than usual during stunts.

• Hooters – 'Is there ever been a better Hooters moment?' A heartwarming Hooters scene after being 'run through the mud in 'Big Daddy'.'
• Tarantino: Chris Pine – 'his first chance to show his movie star ability leading a big movie with a big director alongside a big star.' Though Pine hasn't taken the next big leap since.

• Why not have someone jump from a truck onto the train sooner, instead of dangling a guy from a helicopter first?
• The Pittsburgh local news has impossibly fancy graphics and expert train analysis for a local station.
• Darcy brings her kid to Ground Zero where the train is expected to crash – 'the worst city planning in America.'
• The shooting-at-the-train plan was terrible – 'a one in 100 chance of working and the other 99 are really bad.'
• Tarantino: The gear shift moving to full throttle on its own 'feels like Final Destination.' They seemed like they were going to explain the mechanics but never did.
• The news helicopter footage appears before anyone would know to follow Denzel and Pine's train.

No – 'a 10-episode Netflix show about a train still going in episode 5' doesn't work.

Tony Scott. Tarantino also made a case for the train itself: '777 won the movie. The train becomes a monster.' He compared it to King Kong – 'it takes on all comers and is always victorious.'