Netflix agreed to invest $44 million to acquire the series and produce the first season…

[Director and show creator Carl] Rinsch began shooting in Brazil and quickly went over budget, according to the court records. Though he had promised to deliver another seven episodes, according to the arbitrator’s ruling, he informed Netflix that he would only be able to complete a single episode with the money Netflix had provided…

Rinsch… demanded an additional $11 million to complete the first season, according to the ruling. Hoping to salvage the project, Netflix agreed to pay the money in March 2020, the ruling states.

According to the indictment, Rinsch had quickly transferred most of the $11 million to his brokerage account, where he promptly lost about half of it by speculating on investments such as call options on a biopharmaceutical company and put options on an S&P 500 ETF. At the time he was still reassuring Netflix that the show was “awesome and moving forward really well,” the indictment states.

According to the indictment, he used the remaining funds to invest in cryptocurrency in early 2021, which resulted in a windfall. The arbitration ruling states that Rinsch spent lavishly on various items in late 2021, claiming the purchases were needed for the second season of the show, which Netflix had not ordered.

Bartkowiak became accustomed to preplanning light placement and working with three lighting crews — additional lighting techs to pre-rig and then a third to strike. When shooting, [director Sidney] Lumet wanted all the walls to fly, ideally vertically, so they could move out of the way with maximum efficiency. The work zipped along, and Bartkowiak’s crew might be given less than 10 minutes to turn around for a reverse shot.

“I really mastered lighting that way, which later helped me to shoot with multiple cameras,” Bartkowiak says. He is perfectly comfortable shooting with two, three or more cameras, and he says he has even acclimated some “single-camera directors” to covering scenes with multiple cameras. “You can have flawless cuts where everything matches perfectly.”

For one scene in Speed, actor Keanu Reeves slides under a speeding bus atop a simple car dolly. “Keanu really was underneath the bus, [which was driving] on an unused airport runway, and we strapped multiple camera operators underneath the bus to capture the action. Keanu was secured to the dolly, and we took a lot of precautions, of course, but it was still dangerous, and it was impossible to know if the dolly would suddenly go over debris or something. And you see that on his face! It’s not about the stunt itself; it’s about the performance.”