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the bribe while deciding between two companies, using the money to pay for his child's college tuition, and insists he would have made the same decision regardless. The mayor agrees to Ryder's ransom, ordering the police to deliver it. En route, the police car crashes and fails to deliver the money in time. Garber attempts to bluff Ryder that the ransom has arrived, unaware he has been monitoring events on his laptop. Ryder threatens to execute a child's mother, but another hostage, a former soldier, sacrifices himself and is killed. A brief gunfight erupts after an Emergency Services Unit sniper is bitten by a rat and discharges his weapon, killing Ramos.
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Whereas the novel is told from more than 30 perspectives — keeping readers off balance because it is unknown which characters the writer might suddenly discard — the two films focus on the lead hijacker and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee with whom he communicates by phone. The new
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Camonetti learns that Garber is being investigated for allegedly accepting a $ 35,000 bribe over a contract for new Japanese subway cars. Ryder also discovers the allegations online and forces Garber to confess by threatening to kill a passenger. To save the hostage, Garber claims that he was offered
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Tony, Denzel, Luis, John, James and Sony Pictures stepped up without hesitation to help promote this wonderful film, and their unselfish efforts have allowed my family the additional time to reconcile our loss. I am very proud of the efforts we have all made in making this movie, and I want each and
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Koepp's drafts were meant to be "essentially familiar" to those who read the novel, preserving the "great hero vs. villain thing" of the original. Brian Helgeland, the only one who received credit for the screenplay, took the script in a different direction, making the remake more like the 1974 film
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In the book and original film, Ryder is "cold-blooded and calculating", but in the 2009 film, he is a "loose cannon willing to kill innocents not out of necessity but out of spite". Also, Ryder in the original film and book is portrayed as a normal-looking businessman, while in the 2009 film, he
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the coherence in his films is not between the pages of a script; it's between shots, and his greatest asset (both to himself and to cinema as a whole) is his ability to construct scenes out of shots that take place across great distances of space or time, as in his two best movies:
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commented on the box office results of the film's opening weekend ($ 23,373,102): "Although far from disastrous, that's a soft start for a film budgeted at more than $ 100 million." The film earned $ 150,166,126 worldwide during its release from June 12 to August 23, 2009.
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and the mayor for causing him to stay in prison for 10 years, longer than his plea deal of three years. Scott courted Travolta heavily for the actor's first acting role in years. Travolta earned $ 20 million for his work in the film. The role was originally portrayed by
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I wrote many drafts to try and put it in the present day and keep all the great execution that was there from the first one. It’s thirty years later so you have to take certain things into account. Hopefully we came up with a clever way to move it to the
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employee Walter Garber, working the Rail Control Center as a train dispatcher, receives a call from Ryder, demanding $ 10 million in cash to be paid within 60 minutes. Ryder warns that every minute he waits past the deadline, he will kill a hostage.
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Ryder also demands $ 10 million instead of $ 1 million as in the original film and book or $ 5 million in the made-for-TV film. Ryder does not use the "Mr. Blue" nickname as in the original film. Instead, Ryder is a nickname adopted by Dennis Ford.
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John Travolta decided against promoting the film, as it was released just five months after the death of his 16-year-old son, Jett. He stated that he still was not ready to step back into the spotlight. Travolta released the following statement:
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The film was originally scheduled to release on July 31, 2009, but the release was moved earlier to June 12, 2009. The first theatrical poster was released on February 10, 2009, while the first trailer for the film debuted at the screenings of
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versions of the movie with bonus features were released on November 3, 2009. The film opened up at No. 3 at the DVD sales chart, making $ 14.1m off 919,000 DVD units in the first week of release. These features included commentaries and
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officer, and all the passengers not in the front car, except the motorman, are released. Garber reluctantly negotiates with Ryder as Ramos and Emri set up Internet access in the tunnel. On his laptop, Ryder watches the
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The mayor thanks Garber and assures him the city will "go to bat" for him over his bribery admission. The film concludes as Garber returns home to his wife with groceries he had promised to pick up.
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Ryder hails a taxi, with Garber following him on-foot, and finds out that his scheme has amassed $ 307 million. Garber steals a car and pursues Ryder. After a brief chase, they reach the
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In the 1974 film, the train-operating hostage-taker is the only member of the group to live long enough to see himself behind bars, while all of the hostage-takers die in the 2009 film.
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The first drafts of the script faced the challenge of updating the novel with contemporary technology, including cell phones, global positioning systems, the Internet, laptops, and
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Robert Vataj as Emri / Mr. Brown, the stammering young gun, who helps hijack the train under the command of Ryder. The character originally named "Steever" was portrayed by
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film was not as good as the original: "Scott's redo comes up short in almost every regard against the '74 model ... If it's somehow unfair to compare the two, why was
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than the novel and, as Helgeland put it, making it about "two guys who weren't necessarily all that different from each other". As writer Michael Ordoña describes it:
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every one of you to enjoy it. So, set your calendars for the weekend of June 12th. I promise you won't be disappointed. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
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noted: "Even with the plot's built-in ticking clock, the film relinquishes the tautly calibrated pace in the third act, never to get completely back on track."
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Based on clues from Garber's conversations, the police discover that Ryder is Dennis Ford, a manager at a private equity firm who was sentenced to prison for
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as Phil Ramos / Mr. Green, former MTA motorman, one of the hijackers. The role, originally named "Harold Longman", alias "Mr. Green", was portrayed by
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as Dennis 'Ryder' Ford / Mr. Blue, the leader of the hijackers. Instead of playing a mercenary, he plays a former Wall Street "high roller" who blames
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The film debuted in the number three spot with approximately US$ 25 million at the box office in the United States in its opening weekend, in what
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as Bashkin / Mr. Gray, the most aggressive of the hijackers. The character, originally named "Joe Welcome", alias "Mr. Grey", was portrayed by
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at the time) was used for the Grand Central sequence. Many locations in Brooklyn were used during filming. A large portion was filmed on the
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version sharpens that focus until it's almost exclusively a duel between disgraced MTA dispatcher Walter Garber and manic gunman Ryder.
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as the Mayor of New York, who is under heavy pressure to address the hostage crisis. The character was originally portrayed by
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by cranking the volume and inflating the Noo Yawk attitude to a cartoonish level of macho posturing," wrote Sean Burns in
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takes over negotiations, which infuriates Ryder, who kills the train's motorman to force Camonetti to bring Garber back.
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featurettes. In South Korea, the DVD and Blu-ray were released in October, 2009. The digital release of the film is in
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personnel, as much of the filming would take place in the subway on active tracks. For the initial hijack sequence at
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the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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The scene with the police leaving the Brooklyn Federal Reserve, which does not exist, was actually the rear of the
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plunge nearly 1,000 points in response to the hijacking. A hostage's laptop also connects to the Internet, and its
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looks as if he has adopted prison life, sporting very visible prison tattoos, and the laid-back style of a biker.
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car #2079 was used during filming to give the appearance of an R142A car. Interior car scenes were filmed at the
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suffers under the excesses of Tony Scott's frantic direction, and fails to measure up to the 1974 original." On
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Production began in March 2008 with all cast and crew being required to attend a track safety course taught by
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gave the film two and a half stars, and began his review with "There's not much wrong with Tony Scott's
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even remade?" "As expected, Tony Scott’s hyperkinetic, entirely unnecessary revamp attempts to update
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played Ryder in the 1998 TV movie. In the first two movies, Ryder used the alias "Mr. Blue".
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gave the film two out of four stars, and called it "another overcaffeinated thriller".
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called "an unusually quiet weekend at the box office because of soft ticket sales for
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was critical of John Travolta's performance in the film, comparing it to his roles in
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allows the control center to observe Ryder and Ramos. Lieutenant Camonetti of the
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subway dispatcher, who is negotiating with the hijackers. The negotiator in the
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played Detective Anthony Piscotti, the negotiator in the 1998 television movie.
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A man calling himself Ryder and his accomplices—Bashkin, Emri, and former
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as John Johnson, Garber's boss and head of the MTA's Rail Control Center
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had a production budget of $ 100 million and was co-financed with
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is not worth running down a flight of subway-station stairs for."
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service operated in both directions on the eastbound track. An
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was a transit policeman named Lt. Zachary Garber (portrayed by
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as Lieutenant Vincent Camonetti, hostage negotiator with the
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United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector General
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on a set that more closely resembles the newer and larger
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as an eight-year-old boy who is held hostage with his mom.
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as Jerry Pollard, original motorman of the hijacked train
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Siegel, Tatiana; Fleming, Michael (September 23, 2007).
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Simmons, Leslie; Nordyke, Kimberly (January 15, 2008).
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Fleming, Michael; Siegel, Tatiana (October 25, 2007).
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New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit
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Index

The face of Denzel Washington on the top left stacked above John Travolta on the lower right with the film title in the center.
Tony Scott
Brian Helgeland
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
John Godey
Steve Tisch
Denzel Washington
John Travolta
John Turturro
Luis Guzmán
Michael Rispoli
James Gandolfini
Tobias A. Schliessler
Chris Lebenzon
Harry Gregson-Williams
Columbia Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Relativity Media
Scott Free Productions
Escape Artists
Sony Pictures Releasing
action
thriller film
Tony Scott
Brian Helgeland
film adaptation
John Godey
of the same name
1974 theatrical film
1998 television film

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