Annie : No we're not. We got this far alright? Jack : I'll be damned. You go to the University of Arizona? Annie : Yeah, so? Jack : Good football team. Annie : Yeah? I guess so, I wouldn't know.
Jack : Arizona Wildcats. Annie : Right Jack : He can see you. Just keep looking straight ahead. Jack : [Jack looks around; finds the camera] He called you a Wildcat before. I didn't even pick up on it. Bastard's got a camera right in your face. He can see the whole bus. He's been playing me from minute one.
Annie : Well, he can see me but can he hear me? Jack : Doesn't look like it he's just watching you. Stephens : First time in LA. Annie : Oh no, I live here. Stephens : No, mine. Oh that's just funny, you heard me wrong. Nah, I'm sight-seeing. Annie : Oh, really? Stephens : Yeah. I hate to use the word 'tourist,' but it's not like I can hide it Annie : Not really. Stephens : [sigh] Did you know it took me three hours to get here from the airport?
I got so lost. LA's one big place, but I guess you don't notice, seeing as you live here. I'm such a yokel. There, I said it! Annie : Oh jeez. You know what? I got gum on my seat, GUM! Annie : There's gum on my seat Annie : Hey! Get your ass behind the yellow line. Annie : Hey, Sam? Sam : [whispers under his breath] Shit! Annie : SAM! Sam : What? Annie : Why don't you just drive around these people?
Sam : Don't spit on my bus, Annie. Annie : We gotta stop this thing! Jack : No! Stay above 50! Annie : But Sam's been shot! We gotta get him off! Jack : You slow down, and this bus'll explode! Jack : There is a bomb on this bus. If we slow down, it'll blow. If anyone tries to get off, it'll explode. Terry : Bullshit! Yeah, there's a bomb. Some funny joke, man. Jack : Are we gonna have a problem now? Annie : So, why is all this happening?
I mean, what did we do, bomb the guy's country or something? Jack : No, it's just a guy who wants money. Annie : I don't buy that. It's not a very good way to make money. So, um, what is this guy's deal? Jack : A while back, he held some people for ransom. It went sour, and now he's a little pissed at me.
Annie : Well, what does that have to do with us? Jack : Nothing. We have a slight situation on the bus here. Director Jan de Bont came up with the idea one day when he was driving around Los Angeles and noticed one section of the I Freeway missing. There was an instance where a schoolboy saved the lives of a schoolbus full of kids, when the driver had a heart attack, by climbing on to the driver's lap, jumping on the brake pedal and pulling the bus to the side of the road.
When asked later why he did it, he told them that he had seen "that bus movie". At half-time during an NFL game, there was a ceremony hailing the boy as a hero.
Jan de Bont cast Dennis Hopper because he didn't want a typical villain. He wanted Payne to be a regular guy who just snapped one day.
Renny Harlin and Quentin Tarantino were offered the chance to direct, but turned it down. Tarantino later named the film as one of his twenty favorite films since Keanu Reeves did approximately ninety percent of his own stunts.
Keanu Reeves initially turned down the lead, as he found Graham Yost 's original script to be too much like Die Hard He signed on after Jan de Bont brought in Joss Whedon to re-write the script. He felt that the actor was "vulnerable on the screen. He's not threatening to men because he's not that bulky, and he looks great to women.
Jan de Bont insisted that Keanu Reeves get a sensible haircut as would befit a hard-working cop. The company had to start making them again due to the film's success bringing about new demand.
For the bus jump sequence, a ramp was built. The bus was started from about one mile back, and accelerated towards the ramp. By the time it hit the ramp, it had reached a speed of 61 miles per hour. It traveled feet, and its front wheels reached an altitude of twenty feet off the ground, which was higher than anyone had anticipated.
Because of this, the cameras were not placed correctly, and the top front part of the bus goes out of the frame when the bus reaches the maximum point of the jump. Joss Whedon re-wrote the script uncredited. According to Graham Yost , the credited writer, Whedon wrote most of its dialogue. Ten buses were used in the making of the film.
Each one had two steering wheels, one for Sandra Bullock , the other for the stunt driver, which was more often than not, on the roof of the bus. A special bus was used for the bus jump scene. This bus was modified so that it could reach a speed of seventy miles per hour, and it was equipped with powerful shock absorbers.
The driver's seat was moved back fifteen feet, so that if something went wrong, the driver wasn't ejected from the bus. The seat itself was a suspension mechanism between the ceiling and the bus floor to prevent the driver from suffering spinal compression on impact. The script was pitched to Paramount Studios which placed the movie in turnaround. They suggested to Graham Yost that his script, which called for the movie to end after everyone gets off the bus, had "too much bus" in it, implying that audiences would not go for a movie in which a bus is driving around for two hours.
Yost then added the subway scenes, and the modified script was presented to 20th Century Fox, which agreed to film the movie. Jan de Bont refused. Fox relented to his casting of Sandra Bullock with Reeves only two weeks before shooting began. The shot of the the bus entering LAX while a plane takes off behind it took more than fifty takes. Stunt coordinator Tracy Bunting told Interview Magazine that this was "the most challenging" of her career, in particular the iconic "stroller full of cans" scene.
Whenever a highway scene needed to be re-shot, all the cars had to return to a starting mark. Jan de Bont said, "It was a logistical nightmare. The I had recently been completed, but not opened at the time of production. The filmmakers were given all the time they needed to complete the freeway scenes, without the hassle of closing down an operating major freeway.
The film was released one week before O. Simpson led Los Angeles police on a chase in a white Bronco after he was suspected of murder. After the Bronco chase, many audiences who saw the film in theaters noticed how closely scenes from the film resembled the real-life Bronco chase, including media coverage and aerial shots of Los Angeles freeways.
John McTiernan turned down the director job. Eventually, it was decided that a newcomer should direct, and the producers picked Jan de Bont , who had been in charge of cinematography for Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October , two movies directed by McTiernan.
Keanu Reeves was actually tethered to the bottom of the bus for parts of one scene. For the bus jump sequence, the City of Los Angeles gave permission to shoot on the I during the last month of its construction.
This required the filming crew to be constantly on the move, depending on the location of the workers. It also created continuity problems, because the appearance of the set kept changing, as the construction crews would erect or tear down structures. Filming at the airport took around three weeks, and was made slightly difficult when a plane's engine was being tested, and it was extremely noisy. In early drafts of the script, the bus was supposed to circle around the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium, as opposed to LAX.
However, the studio couldn't get the rights to film there. Although it was not part of the original screenplay, Keanu Reeves and Jan de Bont both agreed that miming gum chewing was an ingenious way to foreshadow Jack Traven's "gut feelings," thus exposing his thought processes to the audience.
This revelation occurred after Keanu casually ad libbed this into one of the scene takes. The picture on Harry's desk is that of Jan de Bont 's wife Trish. The medal Jack and Harry receive for rescuing the elevator passengers is the Medal of Valor, the highest award given by the Los Angeles Police Department. The film was originally supposed to be released in August , as 20th Century Fox had concerns it would underperform at the box office.
They also felt it would be a worthy action successor to True Lies , which opened that July. However, test audiences reacted much more favorably than expected and Fox wanted something to provide adult action competition in comparison to the family-friendly The Flintstones , which opened two weeks earlier.
These factors led to the release date being moved up to June as their first movie of the summer season. There is a picture on the side of the bus of an ocean wave. It's easiest to see when the bus is circling the airport. That photograph was taken by Jan de Bont , for a campaign that was done for the American oceans, "Heal the Bay".
Glenn Plummer 's driver's license was taken away two days before his scene was scheduled to be filmed. The birds flying through the gap in the freeway were digitally added visual effects. When the police were looking at police mugshots, the first photograph was of David Macmillan , who is a sound mixer on the film.
The artificial gap in the freeway was created digitally. The film was rumored to have been originally written with the intention that Jeff Bridges would play Jack and Ellen DeGeneres would play Annie. DeGeneres was apparently considered because the role of Annie was going to be a more comedic role that contrasted the serious role of Jack.
DeGeneres denied being considered for the role in a Howard Stern interview, however. During the entire two and a half weeks of filming the gap sequence, all lines and signage had to regularly be put in place and taken back out, multiple times a day.
According to Jan De Bont , Keanu Reeves wasn't used to playing a role requiring such extreme reactions. The crew underestimated the distance the bus would travel when filming the jump, and multiple cameras ended up destroyed as a result on the first take.
Jan de Bont phoned Panavision and asked them to send any old cameras they had lying around, so long as they had an anamorphic lens, and promised they would be placed "much further back this time". The elevator shaft set was built with four fully-functioning elevators, and was five stories high.
While making the film, Jeff Daniels thought it would not be successful. He reversed his opinion after seeing the finished product.
Paramount optioned the script first in , but did not proceed with it. Keanu Reeves wasn't all that interested in starring in an action movie, so Jan De Bont had to convince him that it would be fun, by telling Reeves he'd be allowed to do as many of his own stunts as possible on Speed. The filmmaker credits Reeves' willingness to do more stunts with the film's success as it's clear that the cast is enmeshed in the action.
It was Sandra Bullock's idea to get out of the Alan Ruck situation by feigning a gum emergency and switching seats. When Jan de Bont first got the script and found out it took place on a bus, he thought "that's going to be boring.
Traven , writer of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre The opening credits sequence descending down an elevator shaft was created with a thirty-five-foot miniature laying horizontally.
In the original script, the bomb was triggered to go off when the bus goes over twenty miles per hour. There are three different ads on the bus, and they are as follows with their slogans : The Great L. Yeah, Right. Sandra Bullock was previously in a movie called The Thing Called Love , which was River Phoenix 's last completed film before his death.
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