Jan de Bont, the director of the 1994 action thriller Speed, took a walk down Memory Lane recently and has shared some candid comments about his very important blockbuster: “It is important that the concept of Speed was so unique, and who the hell would want to make a bus movie in Los Angeles? An actor sitting in the bus, but you cannot move– they cannot get out, cannot get in?” De Bont, now retired, saw his career suddenly grow when he became a blockbuster director overnight. Thirty years later, he provides some insight about the experience of making the action behemoth about the bus that couldn’t stop.
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