Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 American action thriller film produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and written by Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson. It is a sequel to "Speed" (1994). The film stars Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, and Sandra Bullock—the last reprising her role from "Speed". The film was released by 20th Century Fox on June 13, 1997. "Cruise Control" follows couple Annie (Bullock) and Alex (Patric) vacationing in the Caribbean aboard a luxury cruise ship, hijacked by a villain named Geiger (Dafoe). As they are trapped aboard the ship, Annie and Alex
Annie Porter Annie Porter Annie Porter, married name Fantham (1880–8 May 1963) was an English zoologist and Honorary Parasitologist to the Zoological Society of London. Annie Porter was the daughter of S. Porter of Brighton. After studying at University College London, she moved to the Quick Laboratory in Cambridge. From 1914 to 1917 she was Beit Memorial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 1915 she married fellow zoologist Harold Benjamin Fantham (died 1937). From 1917 to 1933 Porter was Head of the Department of Parasitology at the South African Institute for Medical Research in Johannesburg. She was also Senior Lecturer