Speed 2 – cruise ship scene. The most expensive scenes in cinema history
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Speed 2, the sequel to the pretty solid original starring Keanu Reeves, turned out a total flop. The film is said to have barely covered its production costs, so it's hard to talk about any form of success here. Sandra Bullock re-impersonated the heroine from the first installment, but even her presence in this production (alongside Willem Dafoe) did not save the sequel. It doesn't change the fact that if we do not take Speed 2 seriously, we'll get a kind of guilty pleasure for a casual viewing with friends.
The very scene of the ship entering Saint Martin lasts about five minutes: it was calculated that every second of this sequence cost as much as 83,000 dollars! The creators created an approximately 300-ton and 300-meter replica of the ship (which they then pimped up in post-production). At that time, CGI was associated with extremely high costs.
If the entire scene was created using only CGI, it could cost as much as $500 million. No wonder that a more traditional approach was chosen. In contrast, the first installment cost only thirty million dollars (which is practically as much as this single scene). Well...
