Fortunately for the actors, no bus jumped over this fictional unfinished bridge in real life. Instead, "Speed" producers hired a stuntman to make the jump off an 8-foot ramp they built on the set.
Could the bus in "Speed" really have jumped that 50-foot gap? No. That was a piece of Hollywood fantasy. You could not get a bus going fast enough to make a jump like that, especially since it appeared that the bus made the jump without a ramp.
Filming proved very tricky. Since the 105 was completely finished, the famous gap had to be digitally erased. The bus jump was achieved by a stunt driver hitting a ramp and landing in a wall of cardboard boxes.
In the movie Speed, Dennis Hopper's character places a bomb on a freeway commuter bus. Once the bus reaches 50 mph on the freeway, the bomb is armed. If the speed drops below 50 mph, the bomb goes off. Even in 1994, staying above 50 mph on an LA freeway during the 8 a.m. rush hour was a challenge.
In Speed, it was Jack Traven (Reeves) vs. bomber Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper). Originally, the Speed villain was Jack's partner Harry (Jeff Daniels). Speed screenwriter Graham Yost was on the Script Apart podcast on Aug.
He then goes under the bus and tries to disarm it, which he cannot. While Harry is talking to him back at the police station, they find that the bomber is Howard Payne, a retired bomb squad officer from Atlanta. Harry leaves with the SWAT Team to check his house.
Need for Speed director Scott Waugh was once himself a stunt performer and co-ordinator. So when his new film – based on the popular EA video game series – came about, it was clear that Waugh had the knowledge, and audacity, to make the scenes of street racing, crashes and other stunts for real.
The movie Speed involved a spectacular stunt: a bus moving at 55 mph flew across a 50-foot gap in an elevated highway: Now, obviously, the pavement at the start of the jump could NOT have been flat; if it were flat, the bus would simply fall and crash into the support of the highway at the other side of the gap.
For the film's chase sequences, the filmmakers decided against the use of computer-generated imagery, instead employing practical effects, which required the cast to receive intensive driving lessons.
Since even the air inside the bus is considered to be at rest relative to the bus, there are no other external forces inside, such as wind, that can make you move relative to the bus. This is a direct consequence of the law of inertia as discussed above.
On Earth you have the Earth's inertia; on a bus you have the bus' too. Basic relativity. The air in the bus doesn't move, so when you jump, you don't move. If it was an open top bus, and you jumped there, you might go backwards as there is air moving you backwards.
How many people were on the bus throughout the movie (counting Jack, Annie, Sam, and Helen)? There appears to be 20. Some have character names and others are credited as "bus passenger".
Fortunately for the actors, no bus jumped over this fictional unfinished bridge in real life. Instead, "Speed" producers hired a stuntman to make the jump off an 8-foot ramp they built on the set.
Keanu Reeves revealed he turned down a role in "Speed 2" because of the script. During an appearance on "The Graham Norton Show," Reeves said he didn't "respond" to the writing. "I'm sure we've all had this kind of feeling... when things just don't feel right," he explained.
Jack and Harry then figure out that the bomber is hiding in one of the freight elevators, which were not checked during the evacuation of the building. As they corner the bomber in a elevator, he takes Harry hostage. Jack intentionally shoots Harry in the leg, forcing the bomber to release him.
The highest posted speed limit in the country is 85 mph (137 km/h) and can be found only on Texas State Highway 130, a toll road that bypasses the Austin metropolitan area for long-distance traffic.
This Reading Buses bus is officially the fastest bus in the world as it made history by reaching a top speed of 80.73 miles an hour. This, of course, wasn't done of the roads of Reading, but on the circular track at Millbrook, just outside Bedford.
Bus speed refers to the speed at which data is transferred between the various components of a computer system, such as the CPU, RAM, and other devices connected to the motherboard. It is typically measured in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz (GHz).
Payne first worked for the Atlanta Police as a sergeant of the bomb and arson squad team. In 1989, whilst defusing a bomb, his left hand was severely burned, and he lost a thumb.
Speed was shot in Los Angeles, California, USA. Filming locations included Los Angeles International Airport, Mojave Air & Space Port, Fox Plaza, Southern California Gas Co, Los Angeles City Hall, C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, and TCL Chinese Theatre. Hollywood / Highland, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Parents need to know that Speed is a 1994 action movie in which Keanu Reeves plays an LAPD officer who must prevent a bus from blowing up by explosives wired to explode if the bus goes less than 50 mph. This movie is filled with violent images: a fatal stabbing to the head; a decapitation; a bomb activated in…
