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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