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Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 action movie produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Jan de Bont. It stars Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison and Jason Patric. It is a sequel to Speed
, although Keanu Reeves chose not to star in it. In the movie, Bullock is trapped on an out-of-control luxury cruise liner, the Seabourn Legend. Its navigation computers were reprogrammed by a computer hacker, setting the ship on a collision course with a supertanker.

The film, released in the summer of 1997, was a critical and commercial flop.

Plot summary

Accident-prone ditz Annie Porter (Bullock) is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex Shaw (Patric) presents her with two tickets for a cruise ship to the Bahamas. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has just learned that Alex is a police officer who has been lying about his choice of profession. Little does he know that the disgruntled John Geiger (Dafoe), designer of the ship's computer system, has plotted a violent takeover of the vessel and a diamond hijacking that puts everyone on board in mortal danger. Being the dashing police officer he is, Alex leaps into action and tries to stop Geiger, but not before the ship crashes at top velocity into a Caribbean port town.

Trivia

Keanu Reeves
decided not to reprise his role as Jack Traven from the first film, ostensibly because he was touring with his band Dogstar. In an interview with Empire magazine, Reeves remarked “How fast does a cruise ship go anyway?”

Matthew McConaughey
and Jon Bon Jovi
both turned down the role of Alex. Jason Patric
used his $8 million fee to help finance Your Friends and Neighbors. Bullock told comedienne Ruby Wax
that after the film came out, he refused to talk to her.

Gary Oldman
turned down the role of the villain, and instead chose to make Air Force One
.

Bullock originally offered to defer her usual fee and take a gross points deal to keep costs down. Shortly before production, she changed her mind and was paid $11 million.

Bullock claims that Speed 2 was rushed into production by Fox when their original tentpole summer blockbuster Titanic - which was supposed to open on July 4th 1997 - was postponed and the studio felt they needed a new blockbuster to fill its place. Speed 2 would become one of the biggest flops of all time, while the extra production time helped Titanic become the biggest success of all time.

The filmmakers chartered the Seabourn Legend for 6 weeks. Additional scenes were filmed using a false prow built onto the freighter Sturgeon Atlantic.

The oil tanker bears the name "Eindhoven", the Dutch hometown of director Jan de Bont.

At the end of the movie when the tanker truck explodes, what looks like a cow can be seen flying out with the rest of the debris from the tanker. Possibly a reference to the flying cow from Twister.

Cameo: Joe Morton
returns from the original Speed (1994) as the police chief.

Maurice's boat name is "Tuneman", the same title on Glenn Plummer's licence plate in Speed (1994).

A total of 3 different ships were used in this film: Seaborn Legend (actual cruise liner; used for most exterior shots of the ship) "Bridge Ship" (Sturgeon Atlanic frighter ship built with a false hull and bridge; used for bridge scenes and the boat crashes in the marina) "Rail Ship" (false hull built on an underwater rail; used for the island crash finale scene). All other shots of the ship were complete computer graphic effects.

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