The actress has recently stated that she plans to take a break from acting, but this title has nothing to do with her decision.
All Hollywood actors have a movie they regret doing and Sandra Bullock is very clear about which one is hers. In an interview with TooFab together with Daniel Radcliffe -his partner in his latest film, The Lost City-, Bullock has confessed with great sincerity that there is a title of his filmography that he would like not to have done: Speed 2. And the truth is that no one can blame her. She herself gives the reasons why she would prefer that she be erased from her career.
I have one that no one saw and I'm still embarrassed to have been. It's called 'Speed 2'. I've talked a lot about it. Has no sense. A slow ship. Going slowly towards an island. That's the [movie] I wish I hadn't done and no one went to see it that I know of
Interestingly, Radcliffe has declared himself a fan of the film. “I feel like he has a kind of cult love,” the actor added, but Bullock quickly put the matter to rest. “Very little”, the actress has corrected, “About five people. He and the other four 12-year-olds who watched as the boat slowly made its way towards the small island.
With an average of 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is clear that Speed 2 is not considered a good movie. Everything that is good about Speed is bad about its sequel. As she herself explains, the plot centers on a cruise ship that, under the command of a computer genius named John Geiger, heads for a tourist port. Yes, very slowly. Seeing a runaway ship on the high seas does not generate the same impact as a bus that cannot go below 80km/h through the streets of a city.
Why Speed 2 was made is clear. The enormous success of Speed made 20th Century Fox consider making a sequel, despite the fact that the original director, Jan de Bont, saw no possibility of continuing the story while shooting the first part. By contract, De Bont had to direct the second part and it was he himself who proposed the idea of the cruise, inspired by a recurring nightmare. For the continuation, they dispensed with the screenwriter of the first and hired Randall McCormick.
As for the leading actors, neither Sandra Bullock nor Keanu Reeves had a contractual obligation to participate. Keanu Reeves declined the proposal for various reasons. He didn't like the script too much to begin with, and he didn't want to be in another action movie either, since he had just done Chain Reaction. He eventually signed up with Pactar con el diablo and then went on tour with his band, Dogstar. As for Sandra Bullock, the actress said that she did not at first, but she was offered between 11 and 13 million dollars to return to being Annie and she ended up agreeing.
Reeves turning down the role was a chore for the studio, which had to rewrite part of the script. The actor was replaced by Jason Patric, who plays Annie's new love interest. In the first scene of the film, the absence of Jack (Reeves) is explained by Bullock herself, who says that hers simply did not work.
