Speed (movie)
Speed is a film starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock (her breakout role), and Dennis Hopper.
Written by Father Ted episode "Speed 3", in which Father Dougal McGuire is trapped on a milk float with a bomb that will detonate if the float goes slower than 4 mi/h (6.4 km/h). A further ironic use of the "Speed" theme came with "Speed for Thespians," an Academy Award-nominated short film, where a group of actors attempt to play out Chekhov's "The Bear" on a New York City bus.
The basic premise of extortion using a bomb that will trigger automatically if a vehicle tries to stop unless a ransom is paid was not original to this movie.
In 1965 the first episode of Thunderbirds had a supersonic airliner threatened with a bomb in its landing gear;
in Rod Serling's 1966 TV-movie The Doomsday Flight, Edmond O'Brien's bomb would detonate if the airliner descended below 5,000 feet (1500 m);
and in the 1975 Japanese movie Shinkansen Daibakuha (shown in English as The Bullet Train), starring Sonny Chiba, a Shinkansen train will be destroyed if its speed drops below 80 km/h.
