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The Big Picture Before there was Unstoppable and before there was Speed, there was Runaway Train. Like those films, Andrei Konchalovsky's 1985 adventure yarn pits man against machine, which is, in this case, an unmanned locomotive barreling through the freezing Alaskan wilderness. On the surface, there isn't much separating it from other action flicks the Cannon Group released under the leadership of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
'Runaway Train' Was Meant To Be Akira Kurosawa's First Hollywood Movie The origins of Runaway Train date all the way back to 1966, when it was announced as Kurosawa's American filmmaking debut. The Japanese movie master had gained the attention of Western audiences with acclaimed titles such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and High and Low, and he had big plans for his first Hollywood feature, which was to be shot in 70mm and color .
Kurosawa eventually returned to Japan, where he directed the late-career masterpieces Kagemusha, Ran, and Dreams. While one can only imagine what his version of Runaway Train would have looked like, his fingerprints are still on the film that Konchalovsky ended up making. "The design is still Kurosawa's," the Russian-born filmmaker said, according to The New York Times.
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