20 Things You Didn't Know About Speed

2. The Producers Paid To Blow Up, Then Rebuild, A House

SPEED JEFF DANIELS
20th Century Fox

Joss Whedon's biggest change to the script was probably the death of Jack's partner Harry, who tracks down Hopper's home address only to find the entire home booby-trapped with explosives. Already on the hook for a massive budget of $30.4 million, the studio didn't bother constructing a house on the lot or bother with early 90s CGI.

Rather, they paid the owners of a house five thousand dollars to actually blow it up, then additionally cough up the cash to rebuild it once shooting wrapped.

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