Speed 2: Cruise Control Creative background
2022-09-29 22:18
Faced with the rave reviews and huge box office that " Speed of Life " won, I originally had no intention of making a sequel, but it was not until the new idea and Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock agreed to join it that director Jan de Bont had the urge to shoot. During the period, after Jan de Bont rejected a lot of plot opinions, he thought of the background of the cruise ship and thought it was a rare setting. When Jan de Bont was shooting " Twister ", he also began to conceive the film story. Later, the 20th Century Fox Company took a fancy to De Bont's creativity and hired a screenwriter to complete the script
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Extended Reading
Speed 2: Cruise Control quotes
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Alex Shaw: [referring to the flooding of the ballast room] How much longer?
Merced: Look, I've never let a million gallons of water into a ship before. Gimme a second.
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Alex Shaw: [after telling Merced to open the ballast doors] SHIT! CLOSE IT, CLOSE IT, CLOSE IT
Merced: YOU JUST TOLD ME TO OPEN THEM!