Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock were in a movie. They had to speed around the city, in a bus that if the speed went over 50mph and the speed slowed down, it would blow up. I think it was called The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.
Speed came out in 1994, that was 30 years ago. Great, now my back hurts. In a recent interview with 50MPH Podcast and it was asked about them working together again on Speed 3, Reeves said:
“I mean, you know — we’d freakin’ knock it out of the park.”
Bullock went on to say it would be nice to work with Reeves again:
“Before I die, before I leave this planet, I do think that Keanu and I need to do something in front of the camera. Are we, you know, in wheelchairs or with walkers? Maybe. Are we on little scooters at Disneyland?”
Reeves and Bullock did reunite with Jan De Bont, the original director. However, it is only for a special 30th-anniversary screening of the original movie. There was an audience Q&A and Speed 3 came up again. Answering the question, Bullock said about De Bont:
“He’s the man who put the energy and the idea together, knew what the audience wanted and demanded it from everyone and everyone stepped up to play it. So what would that movie be that would make Jan’s brain and brilliance happy? It would require a lot from everybody.”
“I don’t know if we’re in an industry anymore that’s willing to tolerate it and be brave enough to do it. Maybe I could be wrong. … If he can’t make [what’s in his brain] for the audience, then he’s failed it felt like. I don’t know what we could do that would be good enough for the audience.”
Speed was one of those great movies and still holds up today. I saw it again recently and it’s a good old fashion action movie. The only thing that was far-fetched was a woman driving a bus, can you imagine?
I like the fact they ignored that the second movie never happened, which is probably best for everyone.