List of Participants
Loaded with more than 100 interviews with the film’s cast, crew and adjacent commentators, 50 MPH is the most comprehensive dissection of Speed you’re going to find anywhere. Below, check out the full list of voices you’ll hear on the podcast, a staggering roll call of participants who help us tell the story of an electrifying summer thrill ride — one mile at a time. Start listening now!
CAST
- Keanu Reeves (“Jack Traven”)
- Sandra Bullock (“Annie”)
- Joe Morton (“Capt. McMahon”)
- Jeff Daniels (“Harry Temple”)
- Alan Ruck (“Stephens”)
- Glenn Plummer (“Jaguar Driver”)
- Richard Lineback (“Norwood”)
- Beth Grant (“Helen”)
- Hawthorne James (“Sam”)
- Carlos Carrasco (“Ortiz”)
- David Kriegel (“Terry”)
- Natsuko Ohama (“Mrs. Kamino”)
- Daniel Villarreal (“Ray”)
- Simone Gad (“Bus Passenger #1”)
- Loretta Jean Crudup (“Bus Passenger #2”)
- Sherri Villanueva (“Bus Passenger #3”)
- Margaret Medina (“Robin”)
- Patrick Fischler (“Friend of Executive”)
- Susan Barnes (“Female Executive”)
- Milton Quon (“Additional Bus Passenger #2”)
- Sonia Jackson (“Additional Bus Passenger #3”)
- Carmen Williams (“Additional Bus Passenger #4”)
- Loyda Ramos (“Additional Bus Passenger #6”)
- Julia Vera (“Additional Bus Passenger #7”)
- Marylou Lim (“Additional Bus Passenger #8”)
- Paige Goodman (“Elevator Passenger #4”)
- CeCe Tsou (“Elevator Passenger #7”)
- Michael N. Fujimoto (“Elevator Passenger #8”)
- Richard Gelb (“Elevator Passenger #9”)
CREW
- Jan de Bont (Director)
- Mark Gordon (Producer)
- Graham Yost (Screenwriter)
- Ian Bryce (Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager)
- Allison Lyon (Co-producer)
- Andrzej Bartkowiak (Director of Photography)
- Jackson De Govia (Production Designer)
- John Wright (Film Editor)
- Mark Mancina (Music Composer)
- Ellen Mirojnick (Costume Designer)
- Risa Bramon Garcia (Casting Director)
- Gary M. Hymes (Stunt Coordinator)
- Brian Smrz (Assistant Stunt Coordinator)
- Gil Combs (Stunts)
- Donna Evans (Stunts)
- Randy Peters (Stunts/Transportation Coordinator)
- David Sardi (First Assistant Director)
- Maggie Murphy (Second Assistant Director)
- Ralph Sall (Executive Soundtrack Producer)
- John R. Jensen (Art Director)
- K.C. Fox (Set Decorator)
- John Frazier (Special Effects Coordinator)
- Vern Nobles (First Camera Assistant)
- David R.B. Macmillan (Production Sound Mixer)
- Giacomo Ghiazza (Storyboard Artist)
- Christopher C. Strong (Gaffer)
- Kevin D. Ross (Lightworks Assistant)
- Stephen Hunter Flick (Supervising Sound Editor)
- Steve Maslow (Sound Re-recording Mixer)
- Gregg Landaker (Sound Re-recording Mixer)
- Boyd Shermis (Visual Effects Supervisor)
- Ron Brinkmann (CG Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks)
- David Douglas (CG Artist, Sony Pictures Imageworks)
- Frank Foster (Previsualization, Sony Pictures Imageworks – Main Titles)
- David Drzewiecki (Director of Photography – Subway Crew)
- Michael O. Sajbel (Photographic Consultant, Sessums Engineering – Subway Crew)
- Clark Schaffer (Chief Model Maker, Grant McCune Design – Elevator Crew)
- Richard E. Hollander (Visual Effects Supervisor, VIFX)
- Bob Hoffman (Unit Publicist)
- Richard Foreman (Still Photographer)
- Seth Edelstein (DGA Trainee)
- Michael Risoli (Key Set Production Assistant)
- Bill Young (Precision Driver)
- Michael Kehoe (Craft Service)
- Alexander Witt (2nd Unit Director)
- Billy Idol (Singer/Songwriter, “Speed”)
- Steve Stevens (Songwriter, “Speed”)
- Andy Delaney (Director, “Speed” Music Video)
STUDIO PERSONNEL
- Bill Mechanic (Former Chairman and CEO, Fox Filmed Entertainment)
- Tom Jacobson (Former President of Worldwide Production, 20th Century Fox)
- Thomas C. Grane (Former Senior Vice President of Promotional Programming, 20th Century Fox)
- Jorge Saralegui (Former Executive Vice President of Production, 20th Century Fox)
- Sherry Lansing (Former Chairman, Paramount Pictures)
- Don Granger (Former Vice President of Production, Paramount Pictures)
UNCREDITED CONTRIBUTORS
- Walter Parkes & Laurie Macdonald (Executive Producers)
- Joss Whedon (Screenwriter)
- Paul Attanasio (Screenwriter)
- Dan Sasaki (Former Lens Technician, Panavision)
- Donna Washington (City of Los Angeles)
ADDITIONAL VOICES
- John McTiernan (Director, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October)
- Paul Verhoeven (Director, Turkish Delight, Basic Instinct)
- Guillermo del Toro (Director, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water)
- Barry Jenkins (Director, Moonlight, Mufasa: The Lion King)
- Joe Carnahan (Director, Smokin’ Aces, The Grey)
- Jake Braver (Visual Effects Supervisor, Birdman, John Wick)
- Todd Vaziri (Visual Effects Artist, Avatar, Stars Wars: The Force Awakens)
- Mark Harris (Author, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood)
- Alex Pappademas (Author, Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant – The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon)
- Nick de Semlyen (Author, The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage)
- Justin Chang (Film Critic, The New Yorker – formerly Los Angeles Times)
- Owen Gleiberman (Chief Film Critic, Variety)
- Bilge Ebiri (Film Critic, New York Magazine)
- Katie Walsh (Film Critic, Tribune Publishing, Los Angeles Times)
- Guy Lodge (Film Critic, Variety, The Guardian)
- Kate Erbland (Editorial Director, IndieWire)
- Anne Thompson (Editor-at-Large, IndieWire)
- Todd Gilchrist (Senior Editor, Variety)
- Jacqueline Coley (Awards Editor, Rotten Tomatoes; Host, Awards Tour Podcast)
- Ian Failes (Editor-in-Chief, Befores & Afters)
- Drew Taylor & Charles Hood (Hosts, Light the Fuse – The Official Mission: Impossible Podcast)
- Philip Gawthorne & Liam Billingham (Hosts, Die Hard on a Blank Podcast)
- Jonathan Foster (Host, The Worst Part of My Favorite Movie Podcast)
- Natalie Bochenski & Dan Beeston (Director, Writer, Speed: The Movie, The Play)
- Matthew Walden, Daniel Morfesis & Dave Holland (Hosts, Better Than Speed Podcast)
- Ryan Beitz (Grand High Chairman, The World Speed Project)