Story time! So, back in the tail end of 2020, I was in San Francisco working on a movie. We were just filming exterior shots and stunts with a bus because all the interior stuff had been filmed in another (less covid-y) country, but the movie was set in SF and it's a fairly recognizable city, so there we were.
Now, my job was to scan/photograph the path that the bus took before, which was about fourteen blocks of the city. This meant that most of the time I was near to where we were filming, but separated from the rest of the crew. Now, if you've never been near a movie filming on location, a lot of people tend to gather around to see what all of the fuss is about, and if you're doing Bus Stunts TM, people are very excited to find out everything they can.
This meant that just about everyone walking by wanted to know what we were working on, and I was an easily identifiable target for questioning. I'm usually happy to talk about my work, because it's interesting (I think), but I never know what I'm allowed to say, especially when working for The Mouse.
So I just made up a movie. It had to make sense though, to fit the kind of work we were doing. There needed to be a bus, with stunts, and I had to make sure to say the actors were in a different country so that people wouldn't get more interested to see what was happening.
This is how Speed 3, starring Adam Driver, was born.
Every time I talked to someone I tried to come up with more details about this fictional movie, and I was really hoping that by the time we were finished shooting there would be some rumors on the internet (which unfortunately never happened). Flash forward to today, when my boss reminded me that I used to do this, and I had fully forgotten that this movie did not exist.
