‘Stampede. In the gorge. Simba’s down there!’
Category: Retro
‘True Lies’ at 25: blowing up the causeway miniature
Behind the scenes of that Florida causeway scene in the James Cameron spy adventure.
‘I want to see it!’ ILMers on the time Gary Sinise first saw his missing legs in ‘Forrest Gump’
…and other stories about the film’s classic invisible VFX.
A deep dive into shooting ‘Speed’s’ miniature L.A. Metro scenes
Crashing models, crafting sparks old-school, front projection (!), simulating anamorphic lens flares, and the mistake that stayed in the film.
‘Speed’: a tale of many buses
One bus had a section made of rubber, just in case Keanu ‘got into trouble’.
Look closely and you can see the cable pulling the ‘Speed’ bus towards the plane before it explodes
But, so what…’splosions!
Shooting ‘Speed’s’ opening titles almost destroyed the miniature elevator
‘We shoved so much light into the miniature that it was literally melting and coming apart.’
The bus in ‘Speed’ wasn’t supposed to land like a 747
But it did, and it was still spectacular.
‘He lost his head’
How they made Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper fight atop that train in ‘Speed’.
The first big explosion in ‘Speed’ was very nearly a major disaster
And it was thanks to someone who thought they had missed their bus.