Trivia for
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• The filmmakers chartered the Seabourn Legend for 6 weeks. Additional scenes were filmed using a false prow built onto the freighter Sturgeon Atlantic.
  
  
• The oil tanker bears the name "Eindhoven", the Dutch hometown of director Jan de Bont.
  
  
• At the end of the movie when the tanker truck explodes, what looks like a cow can be seen flying out with the rest of the debris from the tanker, possibly a reference to the flying cow from Twister (1996).
  
  
• Keanu Reeves turned down the movie to go on tour with his band Dogstar.
  
  
• Cameo: ['Joe Morton'] returns from the original Speed (1994/I) as the police chief.
  
  
• Maurice's boat name is "Tuneman", the same title on Glenn Plummer's license plate in Speed (1994/I).
  
  
• A total of 3 different ships were used in this film: Seaborn Legend (actual cruise liner; used for most exterior shots of the ship) "Bridge Ship" (Sturgeon Atlanic frighter ship built with a false hull and bridge; used for bridge scenes and the boat crashes in the marina) "Rail Ship" (false hull built on an underwater rail; used for the island crash finale scene). All other shots of the ship were complete computer graphic effects.
  
  
• The original script was intended to be the third film in the "Die Hard" series.
  
  
• The line, "Relationships based on extreme circumstances rarely ever work," is from the end of the first movie, Speed (1994/I).
  
  
• The device labeled "Fiber Optic Converter" used by the hacker is really a mechanical KVM switch (a device used to operate several PCs with one set of keyboard, mouse and monitor).
  
  
• Film debut of Enrique Murciano.
  
  
• Sandra Bullock's character Annie was not given a last name at all in Speed (1994/I). movie. Here, it is revealed to be Porter.
  
  
• Gary Oldman turned down the role of the villain, and instead chose to make Air Force One (1997).
  
  
• In a 2000 interview, Sandra Bullock jokingly referred to this movie as "the biggest piece of crap ever made."
  
  
• The bus Annie almost runs into during the credits, is the same Line number (33) the bus in the original movie had.
  
  

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