Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control
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Directed by	Jan de Bont
Produced by	Jan de Bont Steve Perry Michael Peyser
Screenplay by	Randall McCormick Jeff Nathanson
Story by	Jan de Bont Randall McCormick
Based on	Characters created by Graham Yost
Starring	Sandra Bullock Jason Patric Willem Dafoe Temuera Morrison Glenn Plummer
Music by	Mark Mancina
Cinematography	Jack N. Green
Edited by	Alan Cody
Production company	20th Century Fox Blue Tulip Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	June 13, 1997 (1997-06-13)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$110 million (official) $135–160 million (estimated)
Box office	$164.5 million

Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American disaster thriller film, and a sequel to Speed (1994). It was produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by De Bont and McCormick. Sandra Bullock stars in the film, reprising her role from Speed, while Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe co-star. The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13, 1997.

The plot involves a couple, Annie and Alex, vacationing in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, which is hijacked by a villain named Geiger. As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex work with the ship's first officer to try to stop it after they discover it is programmed to crash into an oil tanker.

De Bont came up with the idea for the film after he had a recurring nightmare about a cruise ship crashing into an island. Speed star Keanu Reeves was initially supposed to reprise his role as Jack Traven for the sequel, but decided not to commit and was replaced by Patric prior to filming. Production took place aboard Seabourn Legend, the ship on which the film is set. The film's final scene, when the ship crashes into the island of Saint Martin, cost almost a quarter of the film's budget, and set records as the largest and most expensive stunt ever filmed. Many interior scenes aboard the ship were shot on soundstages in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The film's soundtrack featured mostly reggae music. Mark Mancina returned to compose the film score, which was released as an album 13 years after the film's release.