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During the film preparation stage, it was rumored that Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks were all candidates to play Jack.
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Quentin Tarantino and Renee Haring were the candidates for film directors.
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Halle Berry once refused to play Annie.
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The bird flying through the gap in the highway is a special effect added in post-production.
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The film was shot on Highway 105 in Los Angeles, which was not yet open to the public at the time.
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One-eighth of the subway train crashed in the final appeared in 1997's "Ice Storm".
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Glenn Palmer had his driver's license revoked just two days before shooting the scenes in the film.
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Paramount first chose the script for the film, but then gave up.
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It was an accident that Keanu Reeves smashed the glass of the bus door at the beginning of the film.
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The bus entered the airport with a Boeing 747 taking off in the background. This shot was taken more than 50 times.
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In the script, the bus was originally designed to drive around the Dodger Stadium parking lot instead of at the Los Angeles Airport, but the producer failed to obtain permission.
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Before the film was fully completed, the filming funds had been exhausted, and the film was only funded again after the trial screening was affirmed.
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The watch that Jack was wearing was discontinued at that time, and after the film was released, production of the watch was resumed.
Speed behind the scenes gags
2022-01-25 08:02
Extended Reading
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Megane 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Feels like watching an episode of Criminal Minds or CSI....Keanu Reeves is so handsome
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Dedric 2022-03-23 09:01:17
Action movies from 1993 are now out. Both of the leading actors have good faces and are quite right. The story is a bit of Cassandra Bridge but it has shortcomings. The retired policeman is a bomb lunatic.
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Helen: Are they going to help us?
Stephens: Sure they are, they're the police. Hey, your taxes are paying their salaries. We die, they gotta take a pay cut.
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[Jack is helped onto the bus after trying to defuse bomb]
Stephens: Did you have any luck with the bomb?
Jack: Yeah, it didn't go off.