Keanu Reeves as Jack and Sandra Bullock as Annie on the ground staring at each other in 'Speed'
The Big Picture 1994 gave us one of the greatest action movies ever made in Speed. It had a cool good guy in Keanu Reeves' Jack Traven, a great sidekick in Jeff Daniels' Harry Temple, an insanely scary villain in Dennis Hopper's Howard Payne, and some of the most intense scenes you'll ever see, as a bus loaded with a bomb must stay above 50 miles per hour at all costs, because if it doesn't, it will blow up. Yeah, yeah, enough with all of that.
Keanu Reeves wasn't the first choice for Jack Traven either. Speed first went after the biggest names in Hollywood, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, then turned to Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. When those didn't work out, a studio exec's kid suggested Keanu Reeves because "he's hot." They were at first put off by the Bill & Ted stereotype but remembered his performance in Point Break.
Related Joss Whedon Tried to Get a Script Credit for ‘Speed’ Nobody seems to know who really deserves credit for the Keanu Reeves blockbuster.
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