Why Sandra Bullock is so wrong about Speed 3

Sandra Bullock offered 1 of the astir perplexing takes of the twelvemonth truthful far, claiming that Hollywood isn’t ‘brave enough’ to marque Speed 3.

The actress, 60, precocious appeared alongside Keanu Reeves, 60, and manager Jan de Bont, 80, astatine a Q&A during an day screening of Speed – and dismissed the thought of a 3rd film, to the dismay of fans. 

The beloved 1994 enactment classic follows a metropolis autobus that’s been rigged with bombs acceptable to detonate if the bus’s velocity drops beneath 50mph, forcing an LAPD serviceman (Keanu Reeves) and a rider (Bullock) to enactment unneurotic to prevention the day. 

It’s remembered arsenic among the champion of the taut enactment thrillers that took implicit container offices successful the 90s and helped motorboat Bullock’s career. And yet she seems definite that a 3rd installment is simply disconnected the cards. 

A remake of a deed 90s enactment movie helmed by 2 monolithic stars? Actually, Sandy, that’s conscionable astir each Hollywood is bully astatine close now. 

Bullock joked during the Q&A (a uncommon quality for the star, who has been mostly retired of the nationalist oculus since her spouse Bryan Randall died successful 2023) that Speed 3 would be, ‘The geriatric version. It won’t beryllium fast.’ 

She went connected to say: ‘All these things happened due to the fact that the brainsick antheral [de Bont] successful the greenish overgarment implicit there. He’s truthful brushed and gentle contiguous and I’m like, “That’s not the antheral I remember.” But he’s the antheral who enactment the vigor and the thought together, knew what the assemblage wanted and demanded it from everyone and everyone stepped up to play it.’

She seemed to beryllium implying that De Bont was an exacting and harsh manager that radical wouldn’t enactment up with today, but much strikingly, that Hollywood wouldn’t clasp an enactment movie starring older actors similar her and Reeves. 

She continued: ‘So what would that movie beryllium that would marque Jan’s encephalon and brilliance happy? It would necessitate a batch from everybody. I don’t cognize if we’re successful an manufacture anymore that’s consenting to tolerate it and beryllium brave capable to bash it.

‘Maybe I could beryllium wrong…If helium can’t marque [what’s successful his brain] for the audience, past he’s failed it felt like. I don’t cognize what we could bash that would beryllium bully capable for the audience.’

Bullocks’ comments are truthful bizarrely disconnected from the existent taste scenery that 1 is forced to wonderment if she’s been experiencing a wholly antithetic Hollywood than the remainder of us. 

Primed by hugely palmy 80s and 90s remakes similar Top Gun: Maverick, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, and Roadhouse, audiences person proven there’s a monolithic appetite for nostalgic films with a proven big-name cast. 

So overmuch so, that it would beryllium acold much close for Bullock to decry the impossibility of getting an archetypal thought made successful Hollywood close present than a proven 1 with an already established bequest fanbase. 

Additionally, there’s precise small grounds to enactment her accusation that she and Reeves are excessively aged for audiences to privation to spot them successful an enactment film.

With Tom Cruise continuing to bash his ain stunts astatine 62 successful Top Gun: Maverick and Brad Pitt and George Clooney appearing arsenic 2 mafia-style fixers successful the enactment packed Wolfs astatine 60 and 63, its wide large names inactive gully crowds, nary substance their ages.

In fact, there’s a definite charm to seeing older stars successful enactment movies, and Hollywood has been capitalising connected that charm heavy successful caller years. 

Reeves himself is impervious of this, arsenic audiences flocked to spot the past 59-year-old successful John Wick 4 successful 2023. 

Harrison Ford starred successful his past Indiana Jones movie successful 2023 astatine 83-years-old, a afloat 23 years older past Bullock and Reeves, surely proving erstwhile and for each that enactment heroes don’t person an property limit. 

In galore cases, the curiosity astir the opposition betwixt an actor’s archetypal show and an updated mentation is capable to get bums successful seats for deed movie remakes – and Hollywood loves that harmless bet. 

It was this curiosity astir however the years betwixt 1986 and 2023 had treated Tom Cruise’s iconic Maverick that helped marque Top Gun: Maverick 1 of the highest-grossing films of each time, aft all. 

Earning a mindblowing $1,464,400,233 worldwide (£1,119,607,198), the remake of the 80s classical acceptable the signifier for a question of 80s and 90s remakes, oregon arsenic Steven Spielberg said to Tom Cruise, ‘You saved Hollywood’s ass.’

The formula’s occurrence was further proven by Twisters – starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones – the 2024 remake of 1996’s Twister. The earthy catastrophe movie acold exceeded its projected earnings, totaling $370.9million (£283,571,595) astatine the worldwide container office.

All of this being said, it’s understandable that Bullock would hesitant to instrumentality different plaything astatine the Speed franchise. 

Speed 2: Cruise Control, which came retired successful 1997, was acold little warmly received than the original. 

Inexplicably acceptable connected an water liner alternatively of a speeding bus, Reeves turned down the publication altogether, leaving Bullock to spell it alone.

She aboriginal admitted she regretted appearing successful what is wide remembered arsenic 1 of the worst sequels of each time. In an interrogation with TooFab successful 2022, Bullock said: ‘I person 1 [a film] nary 1 came astir to and I’m inactive embarrassed I was in. It’s called Speed 2. I’ve been precise vocal astir it. Makes nary sense. Slow boat. Slowly going towards an island. That’s 1 I wished I hadn’t done and nary fans came around, that I cognize of.’

But with a amended publication and Keanu Reeves connected board? There’s nary crushed that Speed 3 couldn’t assistance redeem the franchise and recapture the magic of the original. So overmuch of the archetypal film’s entreaty was the relentless, fast-paced action, sure, but it was besides the undeniable energy betwixt Bullock and Reeves that made it truthful memorable. And that’s ageless.

During a associated interrogation connected the 50 MPH podcast, Reeves said of the anticipation of Speed 3: ‘I mean, you cognize – we’d freakin’ sound it retired of the park.’

Bullock followed up, referring to her much-discussed chemistry with Reeves: ‘There’s nary formula. It conscionable is. Before I die, earlier I permission this planet, I bash deliberation that Keanu and I request to bash thing successful beforehand of the camera.’

Reeves chimed in: ‘It does consciousness similar determination is simply a siren telephone to it, similar there’s thing that wasn’t done. I would emotion to enactment with you again earlier our eyes close.’

While there’s been plentifulness of negativity from fans and critics alike astir the endless remakes and sequels that look each Hollywood has to connection anymore, the nett margins and container bureau numbers are undeniable. There is simply a monolithic appetite for 80s and 90s remakes with big-name actors.

We indispensable admit that we’d beryllium much than consenting to clasp the industry’s deficiency of creativity successful this circumstantial lawsuit without grumbling excessively overmuch astir the deficiency of backing for archetypal ideas.

To get different accidental to spot Keanu Reeves regard adoringly into Sandra Bullock’s eyes (this clip with a fewer grin lines astir them) aft rescuing a metropolis from a grisly fate? And knowing that it’s besides the extremity effect of 2 of the astir iconic actors of their procreation fulfilling the ‘siren song’ of moving unneurotic again ‘before their eyes close’? 

Yeah, we tin each hold to enactment speech our cinephile snobbery for that. 

Even if Sandra Bullock isn’t acceptable for a Speed 3 remake, we tin warrant her that audiences are, and fixed that it would beryllium a surefire occurrence for Hollywood, we’d stake they’re acceptable too. 

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