Chris Pine has found his follow-up role to his star-making turn in "Star Trek." The actor is in negotiations to star opposite Denzel Washington in Fox's action drama "
Unstoppable." Tony Scott is directing.
The story centers on an experienced train engineer (Washington) about to be laid off as part of company cutbacks and the newbie conductor hired to replace him. Pine would play the newbie. They find themselves in a race against time to stop an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city. Mark Bomback wrote the script.