'Speed' Stars Keanu Reeves And Sandra Bullock Reunite For Amazon's Romance Thriller
It's a third-time reunion for Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, as the duo will be getting back together for a romantic thriller in the works at Amazon MGM Studios. Little else is known about the project beyond a 'propulsive' story, but Noah Oppenheim ( The Maze Runner , Jackie ) is onboard as a screenwriter.
The two Hollywood veterans worked together in 1994's Speed before starring in 2006's The Lake House , which makes their upcoming outing the first reunion in 19 years. Since then, Reeves and Bullock have gotten their fair share of the spotlight — the former, most notably, for the John Wick series and 2021's The Matrix Resurrections , and the latter, for Bird Box (2018) and Gravity (2013), the performance that earned her an Oscar nomination.
While it's no Speed 3 , that doesn't mean the chances of reviving the franchise are zero. The pair previously expressed interest in returning for a potential threequel, with Reeves saying, 'I mean, you know — we'd freakin' knock it out of the park. Agreeing that they are on the same page, Bullock added, 'Before I die, before I leave this planet, I do think that Keanu and I need to do something in front of the camera.'
Directed by Jan de Bont, Speed follows LAPD officer Jack Traven (played by Reeves), who must prevent a bomb from exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 miles per hour. Bullock portrays a passenger embroiled in the mission, continuing her stint without Reeves in Speed 2: Cruise Control, which, unlike its highly acclaimed predecessor, crashed and burned at the box office.
The Lake House , meanwhile, is a remake of the 2000 South Korean film that revolves around an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006, who meet via letters left in the mailbox of, well, a lake house where they both lived at separate points in time.
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