Running time 116 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $30 million Box office $350.4 million Speed is a 1994 American directed by in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars,. The film tells the story of an who tries to rescue on a rigged with a programmed to explode if the bus slows down below 50 mph. It became a sleeper hit, critically and commercially successful, grossing $350.4 million on a $30 million budget and winning two, for and, at the in 1995. A critically panned sequel, was released on June 13, 1997. Contents.

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Plot (LAPD) officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple thwart an attempt to hold an elevator full of people for a $3 million ransom by a bomber, who is later revealed to be named Howard Payne. As they corner Payne, he grabs Harry. Jack shoots Harry in the leg, forcing the bomber to release Harry.

Payne turns away, appearing to die in the explosion of his own device. Jack and Harry are praised by Lieutenant 'Mac' McMahon and awarded medals for bravery. Some time later, Jack witnesses a city bus explode.

Payne, still alive, contacts Jack on a payphone, explaining that a similar bomb is rigged on another bus. The bomb will arm once the bus reaches 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) and detonate when it drops below 50.

The bomber demands a larger ransom of $3.7 million and threatens to detonate the bus if passengers are offloaded. Jack races through freeway traffic and boards the moving bus, which is already over 50 mph. He explains the situation to the driver Sam, but a small-time criminal, fearing Jack is about to arrest him, fires his gun, accidentally wounding Sam. Another passenger, Annie Porter, takes the wheel. Jack examines the bomb under the bus and phones Harry, who uses clues to identify the bomber. The police clear a route for the bus to the unopened. Mac demands they offload the passengers onto a pacing flatbed truck, but Jack warns about Payne's instructions.

Payne allows the officers to offload the injured Sam for medical attention, but then detonates a smaller bomb which kills another passenger who attempts to escape. When Jack learns that part of the elevated freeway ahead is incomplete, he persuades Annie to accelerate the bus and jump the gap.

He directs her to the nearby to drive on the unobstructed runways. Meanwhile, Harry identifies Payne's name, his former role as a retired Atlanta bomb squad officer, and his local Los Angeles address. Harry leads a SWAT team to Payne's home, but the house is rigged with explosives which go off, killing Harry and most of his team in the process. Jack rides under the bus on a towed sledge, but he cannot defuse the bomb, and accidentally punctures the fuel tanks when the sledge breaks from its tow line. Once pulled back aboard by the passengers, Jack learns that Harry has died and that Payne has been watching the passengers on the bus with a hidden video camera. Mac has a local news crew record the transmission and rebroadcast it in a loop to fool Payne, while the passengers are offloaded onto an airport bus. The bus suffers a flat tire, forcing Jack and Annie to escape via a floor access panel.

Out of fuel, the bus slows to 50 mph and explodes as it collides with an empty cargo plane. Jack and Mac head to to drop the ransom into a waste can. Realizing he has been fooled, Payne poses as a police officer and seizes Annie and the money. Jack follows them into the Metro subway, where Annie is wearing a rigged to a. Payne hijacks a subway train, handcuffs Annie to a pole, and sets the train in motion while Jack pursues them.

After killing the train driver, Payne attempts a bribe with the ransom money but is enraged when a in the money bag goes off. He and Jack fight on the roof of the train, until Payne is decapitated by an overhead light. Jack removes the vest from Annie, but she is still handcuffed. Realizing Payne killed the driver and shot the control panel at the same time, rendering the controls unusable, Jack accelerates the train, causing it to smash through an end-of-track construction site and burst onto before coming to a stop. Finally finished with the adventure, Jack and Annie share a kiss.

Part of the film featured the bus making its way onto through the traffic. Writing Screenwriter was told by his father, Canadian television host, about a film called starring, about a train that speeds out of control. The film was based on an idea. Elwy mistakenly believed that the train's situation was due to a bomb on board.

Such a theme had in fact been used in the 1975 Japanese film. After seeing the Voight film, Graham decided that it would have been better if there had been a bomb on board a bus with the bus being forced to travel at 20 mph to prevent an actual explosion. A friend suggested that this be increased to 50 mph. The film's end was inspired by the end of the 1976 film. Yost had initially named the film Minimum Speed reflecting on the plot element of the bus unable to drop below a speed. He realized that using 'minimum' would immediately apply a negative connotation to the title, and simply renamed it to Speed. Yost's initial script would have the film completely occur with the bus; there was no initial elevator scene, the bus would have driven around due to the ability to drive around in circles, and would have culminated with the bus running into the and destroying it.

Upon finishing the script, Yost took his idea to, which expressed interest in green-lighting the film and chose due to his blockbuster films,. However, McTiernan eventually declined to do so, feeling the script was too much of a Die Hard retread, and suggested, who agreed to direct because he had the experience of being the photography director for action movies, including McTiernan's Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October. Despite a promising script, Paramount passed on the project, feeling audiences would not want to see a movie which takes place for two hours on a bus, so De Bont and Yost then took the project to which also distributed Die Hard. Fox agreed to green-light the project on the condition there were action sequences in the film other than the bus. De Bont then suggested starting the film off with the bomb on an elevator in an office building, as he had an experience of being trapped in an elevator while working on Die Hard. Yost used the opening elevator scene to establish Traven as being clever enough to overcome the villain, comparable to tricking into looking at her own reflection. Yost then decided to conclude the film on a subway train to have a final plot twist not involving the action on the bus.

Fox then immediately approved the project. In preparing the shooting script, one unnamed author had revised Yost's script in a manner that Yost had called 'terrible'. Yost spent three days 'reconfiguring' this draft.

Jan de Bont brought in a week before principal photography started to work on the script. According to Yost: 'Joss Whedon wrote 98.9 percent of the dialogue. We were very much in sync, it's just that I didn't write the dialogue as well as he did.' One of Whedon's contributions was reworking Traven's character once was cast. Reeves did not like how the Jack Traven character came across in Yost's original screenplay.

He felt that there were 'situations set up for one-liners and I felt it was forced— Die Hard mixed with some kind of screwball comedy.' With Reeves' input, Whedon changed Traven from being 'a maverick hotshot' to 'the polite guy trying not to get anybody killed,' and removed the character's glib dialogue and made him more earnest. Yost also gave Whedon credit for the 'Pop quiz, hotshot' line. Another of Whedon's contributions was changing the character of Doug Stephens from a lawyer ('a bad guy and he died', according to the writer) to a tourist, 'just a nice, totally out-of-his-depth guy'.

Whedon worked predominantly on the dialogue, but also created a few significant plot points, like the killing of Harry Temple. Yost had originally planned for Temple to be the villain of the story, as he felt that having an off-screen antagonist would not be interesting. However, Yost recognized that there was a lot of work in the script to establish Temple as this villain. When was cast as Howard Payne, Yost recognized that Hopper's Payne readily worked as a villain, allowing them to rewrite Temple to be non-complicit in the bomb situation.

Casting , the first choice for the role of Jack Traven, declined the offer because he felt the character (as written in the earlier version of the script) was too much like the John McClane character from Die Hard. According to Yost, they had also considered,. Director Jan de Bont ultimately cast Keanu Reeves as Jack Traven after seeing him in.

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'.

Reeves had dealt with the (LAPD) before on Point Break, and learned about their concern for human life, which he incorporated into Traven. The director did not want Traven to have long hair and wanted the character 'to look strong and in control of himself'. To that end, Reeves shaved his head almost completely. The director remembers, 'everyone at the studio was scared shitless when they first saw it.

There was only like a millimeter. What you see in the movie is actually grown in'. Reeves also spent two months at in to get in shape for the role. For the character of Annie, Yost said that they initially wrote the character as and as a as to justify how she would be able to handle driving a speeding bus through traffic. The role was offered to but she declined the part. Later, the character had then been changed to a driver's education teacher, and made the character more of a comic-relief sidekick to Jack, with in mind for the part.

Instead, Annie became both Jack's sidekick and later love interest, leading to the casting of Sandra Bullock. Sandra Bullock came to read for Speed with Reeves to make sure there was the right chemistry between the two actors.

She recalls that they had to do 'all these really physical scenes together, rolling around on the floor and stuff.' Filming began on September 7, 1993, and completed on December 23, 1993, in Los Angeles.

De Bont used an 80-foot model of a 50-story elevator shaft for the opening sequence. While Speed was in production, actor and Reeves's close friend died. Immediately after Phoenix died, de Bont changed the shooting schedule to work around Reeves and give him scenes that were easier to do. 'It got to him emotionally.

He became very quiet, and it took him quite a while to work it out by himself and calm down. It scared the hell out of him', de Bont recalls. Initially, Reeves was nervous about the film's many action sequences but as the shooting progressed he became more involved. He wanted to do the stunt in which Traven jumps from a Jaguar onto the bus himself, and rehearsed it in secret after de Bont disapproved. On the day of the sequence, Reeves did the stunt himself, terrifying de Bont in the process. Eleven and three buses were used in the film's production.

Two of them were blown up, one was used for the high-speed scenes, one had the front cut off for inside shots, and one was used solely for the 'under bus' shots. Another bus was used for the bus jump scene, which was done in one take.

Eleven were used to represent the bus in the film. Many of the film's freeway scenes were filmed on California's and at the known today as the, which was not officially open at the time of filming. While scouting this location, De Bont noticed big sections of road missing and told screenwriter Graham Yost to add the bus jump over the unfinished freeway to the script. In the scene in which the bus must jump across a gap in an uncompleted elevated freeway-to-freeway ramp while still under construction, a ramp was used to give the bus the necessary lift off so that it could jump the full fifty feet. The bus used in the jump was empty except for the driver, who wore a shock-absorbing harness that suspended him mid-air above the seat, so he could handle the jolt on landing, and avoid spinal injury (as was the case for many stuntmen in previous years that were handling similar stunts). The highway section the bus jumped over is the directional ramp from I-105 WB to I-110 NB (not the HOV ramp from I-110 SB to I-105 WB as commonly believed), and as the flyover was already constructed, a gap was added in the editing process using. A 2009 episode of attempted to recreate the bus jump as proposed, including the various tricks that they knew were used by the filmmakers such as the ramp, and proved that the jump, as in the film, would never have been possible.

On a commentary track on the region 1 DVD, De Bont reports that the bus jump stunt did not go as planned. To do the jump the bus had everything possible removed to make it lighter. On the first try the stunt driver missed the ramp and crashed the bus, making it unusable. This was not reported to the studio at the time. A second bus was prepared and two days later a second attempt was successful. But, again, things did not go as intended.

Advised that the bus would only go about 20 feet, the director placed one of his multiple cameras in a position that was supposed to capture the bus landing. However, the bus traveled much farther airborne than anyone had thought possible. It crashed down on top of the camera and destroyed it. Luckily, another camera placed about 90 feet from the jump ramp recorded the event.

Filming of the final scenes occurred at, which doubled for. The shots of the LACMTA through the construction zone were shot using an 1/8 scale model of the Metro Red Line, except for the jump when it derailed. 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. The MD520N helicopter used throughout the film, registration N599DB, Serial LN024, was sold to the in 1995, where it was in use until 2006; it was then sold to a private owner.

Reception Box office Speed was released on June 10, 1994, in 2,138 theaters and debuted at the number one position, grossing $14.5 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $121.3 million domestically and $229.2 million internationally for a worldwide total of $350.5 million, well above its $30 million production budget. Critical response Speed received critical acclaim and currently has a 'certified fresh' score of 93% on based on 60 reviews with an average rating of 7.9/10.

The critical consensus states 'A terrific popcorn thriller, Speed is taut, tense, and energetic, with outstanding performances from Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, and Sandra Bullock.' The film also has a score of 78 out of 100 on based on 17 critics indicating 'Generally favorable reviews.' Audiences polled by gave the film an average grade of 'A' on an A+ to F scale. Film critic gave the film four out of four stars and wrote, 'Films like Speed belong to the genre I call Bruised Forearm Movies, because you're always grabbing the arm of the person sitting next to you. Done wrong, they seem like tired replays of old chase cliches. Done well, they're fun. Done as well as Speed, they generate a kind of manic exhilaration'.

In his review for magazine, Peter Travers wrote, 'Action flicks are usually written off as a debased genre, unless, of course, they work. And Speed works like a charm. It's a reminder of how much movie escapism can still stir us when it's dished out with this kind of dazzle'. In her review for, wrote, 'Mr. Hopper finds nice new ways to convey crazy menace with each new role. Certainly he's the most colorful figure in a film that wastes no time on character development or personality'. Gave the film an 'A' rating and wrote, 'It's a pleasure to be in the hands of an action filmmaker who respects the audience.

De Bont's craftsmanship is so supple that even the triple ending feels justified, like the cataclysmic final stage of a Sega death match'. Magazine's wrote, 'The movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers. First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties—in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere'. Filmmaker (who was also commissioned to direct the film, but declined) named the film one of the twenty best films he had seen since 1992. Entertainment Weekly magazine's Owen Gleiberman ranked Speed as 1994's eighth best film. The magazine also ranked the film eighth on their 'The Best Rock-'em, Sock-'em Movies of the Past 25 Years' list. Speed also ranks 451 on magazine's 2008 list of 'The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time'.

Of the recalled having named Speed his film of the month working at Radio 1 at the time of release, and stated in 2017, having re-watched the film for the first time in many years, that it had stood the test of time and was a masterpiece. Home media On November 8, 1994, Fox Video released Speed on and formats for the very first time. Rental and video sales did very well and helped the film's domestic gross. The original VHS cassette was only available in standard 4/3 TV format at the time and in October 1996, Fox Video re-released a VHS version of the film in widescreen allowing the viewer to see the film in a similar format to its theatrical release. On November 3, 1998, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released Speed on DVD for the very first time.

The DVD was in a widescreen format but, other than the film's theatrical trailer, the DVD contained no extras aside from the film. In 2002, Fox released a special collector's edition of the film with many extras and a remastered format of the film. Fox re-released this edition several times throughout the years with different covering and finally, in November 2006, Speed was released on a format with over five hours of special features. Awards and honors Association Ceremony Date Category Recipient Results Awards Circuit Community Awards 1994 Best Stunt Ensemble Gary Hymes Eddie Matthews William Morts Jimmy Ortega Brian Smrz Won Best Film Editing John Wright Nominated Best Achievement in Sound David McMillan Nominated Best Visual Effects Boyd Shermis Nominated Honorable Mentions Won David MacMillan Won Won John Wright Nominated 1995 John Wright Nominated David MacMillan Won Boyd Shermis Richard E. Hollander Nominated John Wright Won 1995 Won 1995 Won Nominated 1995 David MacMillan Nominated 1995 Nominated 1995 N/A Won 1995 N/A Nominated 1994 Won 1995 Donald Flick Paul Berolzheimer David Bartlett John Dunn Patricio A.

Libenson Dean Beville John T. Cucci Ken Dufva Judee Flick Avram D. Gold Warren Hamilton, Jr. Greg Hedgepath Dean Manly Dan O'Connell Joan Rowe Kirk Schuler Bruce Stubblefield Solange S. Schwalbe Won N/A Nominated Nominated Won Won Won Nominated Won Won - for the bus escape/airplane explosion N/A Won N/A Nominated Nominated Nominated 1995 N/A Won N/A Nominated Nominated Won recognition:.: #99.: Jack Traven & Annie Porter - Nominated Heroes Music Soundtrack A soundtrack album featuring 'songs from and inspired by' the film was released on 28 June 1994 with the following tracks The soundtrack was commercially successful in Japan, being certified gold by the in 2002. Speed: Songs From And Inspired By The Motion Picture No. Title Artist Length 1.

'A Million Miles Away' 3:41 3. 'Soul Deep' 3:06 4. 'Let's Go for a Ride' 3:07 5. 'Go Outside and Drive' 4:51 6. 'Crash' 5:05 7. 'Rescue Me' 3:01 8. 'Hard Road' 4:28 9.

'Cot' Carnival Strippers 5:23 10. 'Like a Motorway' 5:43 12. Speed' 3:17 Total length: 50:04 Score In addition to the soundtrack release, a separate album featuring 40 minutes of 's score from the film was released on 30 August 1994. The CD track order does not follow the chronological order of the film's events. La-La Land Records released a limited expanded version of Mark Mancina's score on 28 February 2012. The newly remastered release features 69:25 of music spread over 32 tracks (in chronological order). In addition, it includes the song '.

Main article: In 1997, a sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released. Agreed to star again as Annie, for financial backing for another project, but declined the offer to return as Jack. As a result, was written into the story as Alex Shaw, Annie's new boyfriend, with her and Jack having broken up due to her worry about Jack's dangerous lifestyle.

Starred as the villain John Geiger, and (who played Reeves' carjacking victim) also as the same character, this time driving a boat that Alex takes control of. The film is considered one of the worst sequels of all time, scoring only 3% (based on 64 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.

See also., a 1966 TV-movie in which a bomb will explode if a plane descends to land., a 1975 Japanese film in which a bomb will explode if a train slows down., which tested the reality of the iconic bus jump in the film. The film is parodied in the UK Channel 4 sitcom, in the episode ', where Father Dougal drives a booby-trapped milk float that will explode if the speed falls below 4 mph. References. Retrieved 2011-05-08.

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