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Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature directorial debut, with a screenplay by Graham Yost. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, and Sandra Bullock in lead roles, with Joe Morton and Jeff Daniels in supporting roles.
Jun 10, 1994 · Speed: Directed by Jan de Bont. With Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton. A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
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- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Jan de Bont
- 1994-06-10
- Sandra Bullock can always fall back on being a bus driver. Considering that Sandra Bullock’s recent Oscars prominence — and even more recently honored for a decade of hotness — I doubt she’ll have to start driving for Greyhound anytime soon.
- There are Speed super-fans. There’s at least one Speed super-fan, anyway. Ryan Beitz is attempting to collect every VHS copy in existence of the movie, because one can never have enough VHS tapes from 1994.
- Joss Whedon wrote most of the dialogue. Keanu Reeves has Joss Whedon to thank for all that flirty disaster banter between him and Sandra Bullock. Whedon has worked as an often un-credited script doctor in Hollywood for years and Speed’s writer, Graham Yost, admitted that ““Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue.”
- Keanu Reeves only took the part after the rewrite. Keanu Reeves found Yost’s original script to be too much like Die Hard. It was only after Whedon rewrote most of the dialogue that Reeves signed-on for the part.
Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves, John Goodman, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, and Jesse Plemons.
A retired Atlanta Police Department bomb squad explosives expert, called Howard Payne, tries to extort money by threatening to kill some people, trapped in a Los Angeles Skyscraper's elevator, with explosives.
Los Angeles police officer Jack (Keanu Reeves) angers retired bomb squad member Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper) by foiling his attempt at taking hostages. In revenge, Payne arms a bus with a bomb ...
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- Action, Mystery & Thriller
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June 10, 1994. 4 min read. “Speed” is like an ingenious windup machine. It’s a smart, inventive thriller that starts with hostages trapped on an elevator and continues with two chases – one on a bus, one on a subway – so that it’s wall-to-wall with action, stunts, special effects and excitement.
