Before it continued Keanu Reeves' rise to stardom in the action genre, a former Paramount exec reveals that Speed was nearly made as a sequel to the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. The 1994 movie starred Reeves as an LAPD bomb disposal officer who races through the city on a bus wired with a bomb set to explode if it drops below 50 miles per hour. Beverly Hills Cop, on the other hand, starred Eddie Murphy as fast-talking Detroit police detective Axel Foley who frequently finds himself wrapped up in cases out of his jurisdiction in the eponymous California city.

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