NEWS: Wachowski Brothers Double Team 'Speed Racer'

CELEB: Wachowski Brothers Double Team 'Speed Racer'

After years of anticipation, the increasingly inaccurately named Wachowski "Brothers" have finally announced their directorial follow-up to the much beloved and maligned (and, ultimately, forgettable) Matrix trilogy. The project will be a big screen remake of Tatsuo Yoshida's Mach Go Go Go or, as it's known in the United States, Speed Racer.



Speed Racer will mark a reunion of sorts as it brings a large portion of the creative talent responsible for The Matrix and its sequels back together. In addition to the Wachowskis, executive producer Grant Hill and visual effects supervisor John Gaeta will be returning along with Matrix trilogy producer Joel Silver, the man responsible for making the possibility of a Speed Racer film a reality.



It was actually Silver who, after working with the Wachowskis on V for Vendetta, brought the two into the fold. Naturally, their participation was conditional upon being able to bring something of their own to the project.

Best known for its fast paced racing and faster paced dialogue, Speed Racer was one of the first examples of anime finding success in the U.S. market. Though the phenomena has since become the norm with imported shows such as Pokemon and Naruto achieving popularity that overshadows even native animated programming, attempts to revive the Speed Racer franchise with remakes of the original cartoon have thus far not met with the same success. This will be the first attempt to translate Speed Racer into a live-action format.





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isnt one of those brothers are tranny prostitute in his spare time...I remember reading about hit getting busted.

what?

Uh, not quite. He's a transvestite, not transsexual.

yeah. that's why the first line mentions how it's inacurate to refer to them as, "brothers."

And here I thought Speed Racer was remembered for all the fiery death scenes . Not the fast talk & driving . Oh , and Chim Chim

File this hed under "nightmare fuel".

I don't want to think of the Wachowski Bros. double-teaming anything; not even a buffet.

http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/w/wa/wachowski_brothers.html

Oh, Hollywood. What won't you do?

Well I'll be the first to say that this looks frickin interesting. Maybe it's because I grew up watching speed racer and loved it.

Can't wait

How is this "news?"



-TM

SPEED RACER!!! hell yeah can't wait. I'm just hopeing they don't ruin it for me.

+1

But, if they use the Sponge version of the show's theme for the film's score/soundtrack, I will endorse this movie.

SPONGE.

Don't forget "Speed Racer" by Devo.

-TM

I always liked speedracer as a kid...lots of racing..someone ALWAYS died...usally going off a cliff...or into a wall. No one ever got cut in half by that dual saw blades they had on the front of it though... On a related note..when they reshowed them again on cartoon network again when I was older..they had edited all the scenes..so that the cars going off cliffs had the piliots get out with parasuits...thought that was funny. Apparently kids cannot handle the idea that all those drivers were going to die....how things change....

I loved this show.

But they must follow up with the big screen adaptation of Gatchaman (G-Force).

I just read that Vince Vaughn is executive producing and is set to play Racer X.

Wait, this is an old article.

this may actually be an almost WORSE idea than Transformers

ALMOST

"Speed Racer will mark a reunion of sorts as it brings a large portion of the creative talent responsible for The Matrix and its sequels back together." When I read that the first thing I though was Keanu Reeves as Speed Racer. LOL

Also, I'm glad someone else thinks that the Transformers Movie is gonna bomb. Michael Bay is a hack.

Ok so let's score the tally shall we:

Michael Bay - Hack

Wachowski Brothers - Overrated

Michael Mann - Asshat who made Bad Boys III without the humor.

I'll be surprised if I feel compelled to watch this movie on DVD two years from when it is released.

You have to imagine this being said in excited monotone by someone with only two frames of animation...