Joss Whedon explains how Keanu Reeves helped to avoid wasting the script for Velocity with one easy statement of SWAT officers.
It’s been a short while since we final heard something from Joss Whedon, however he’s popped again into the image to debate one of the best rushing bus film of the ’90s. In fact, I’m speaking about Velocity, the enduring motion film starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Joss Whedon carried out an uncredited rewrite of Velocity, with some saying he really wound up writing roughly 90% of the movie’s dialogue, but it surely was a remark from Reeves that helped Whedon perceive the film.
Joss Whedon took half within the 50 MPH podcast, which particulars the making of Velocity from the perspective of the solid and crew.
“[Reeves] talked about [doing research for the role by hanging out] with the SWAT guys and the way they had been unfailingly well mannered,” Whedon stated. “[He said that] they’re solely about defusing the state of affairs, they name all people ‘sir or ‘ma’am.’ It was like click on — that was it. I perceive this character now. My tackle it was: He wasn’t a scorching shot, he was a lateral thinker. He was going to do what felt proper and have an odd method to it, however typically talking, it could work out. That ‘sir or ma’am’ gave me a lot, as a result of bluster [in action movie heroes] was the order of the day and this was the alternative. He additionally stated, ‘I don’t need to pull my gun.’ And I used to be like, ‘I don’t need you to both, however you sort of should. … [The studio is] not going to allow you to not pull your gun.’“
Given the quantity of labor Joss Whedon did on Velocity, he thought he deserved a credit score, however the Writers Guild would up ruling in opposition to him and Graham Yost was given sole credit score on the movie. The pair met for the primary time on the Velocity premiere and Yost recalled that he felt Whedon was blaming him. “The place issues went unhealthy between us is when he didn’t get any credit score, and he was not glad once we bumped into one another on the premiere,” Yost stated. “And it was like he was blaming me. It was like, ‘Dude, that’s the WGA. In fact I’m going to put in writing a letter saying I deserve sole credit score. I sat with that factor for years. That’s my child.’”
Joss Whedon remembered issues slightly otherwise. “Graham Yost got here as much as me the night time it opened,” Whedon stated. “Fox was having slightly occasion on the lot as a result of they had been so excited, and we hadn’t met, and he got here up, and we had been well mannered and all, and he was like, ‘, man, you’d have executed the identical factor.’ And I used to be like, ‘Effectively, we are able to’t know that, can we?’ That bought me. That basically upset me, as a result of it’s not true.“