Jan de Bont cut his teeth in Hollywood as a cinematographer, working on some big movies like adventure sequel The Jewel of the Nile, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Lethal Weapon 3 and Basic Instinct. And when the Dutchman decided to make the jump into directing, his first effort behind the camera turned out to be one of the greatest action blockbusters ever made.
High concept pitches were all the rage during the 1990s, and Speed has one of the best. A bomb is strapped to a bus, and if it slows down to less than 50 miles per hour, then it explodes. It sounds incredibly simple, but thanks to de Bont’s sharp direction, a relentless barrage of tension-fuelled action sequences and three phenomenal performances from leads Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock, it became a massive box office smash hit and raked in over $350 million.
De Bont’s second movie,...
High concept pitches were all the rage during the 1990s, and Speed has one of the best. A bomb is strapped to a bus, and if it slows down to less than 50 miles per hour, then it explodes. It sounds incredibly simple, but thanks to de Bont’s sharp direction, a relentless barrage of tension-fuelled action sequences and three phenomenal performances from leads Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock, it became a massive box office smash hit and raked in over $350 million.
De Bont’s second movie,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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