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Runaway Train, Die Hard, Silver Streak and production connections
In the discussion (8)
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- The cited inspirations are Runaway Train, Die Hard and Silver Streak
- The train ending is compared with Silver Streak
- The Goodhew ambulance is connected with Heat
- Hopper’s dummy head reportedly required a less graphic angle
- Reeves and Bullock’s later public accounts of mutual crushes are discussed
- The hosts speculate beyond those accounts; that speculation is not treated as fact
- Earlier production discussion describes the two bus-jump attempts and lost camera
- The practical elevator models, de Bont’s additions and Whedon’s rewrites are discussed