Live Action Speed Racer

[Saga]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/new ... titialskip

Emil Hersch as Speed, Jon Goodman as Speed's dad....rofl. Directed by the Wachowski brothers (same guys that did The Matrix, those of you living under a rock). Thoughts? I think it's going to be awful, but that's my completely baseless assumption.

edit: pics http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/06/new ... er-photos/

Susan Sarandon as Speed's mother too, and Christina Ricci as some other chick I forget.

[Turambar]

Emil Hersch as Speed

The guy from The Girl Next Door right?

[Saga]

yup.

[Ishido]

Hahahahahahahaha.

If it isn't completely ridiculous I'll be disappointed.

[BRP]

Do people even try anymore?

[Correction]

I'd need to see a trailer or something, these pictures look like the Wachowski Brothers made San Francisco Rush 2049 N64, the Movie.

I'm really really worried though :D Speed Racer is almost certainly one of the most unwatchable cartoons ever made.

[Thoronas]

Aren't they the Wachowski siblings now? Can't really call them brothers when one of them is a chick.

The pics actually got me a little stoked to see this, this looks like it might be a good movie to see on mushrooms .

[Kiro]

Making movies was the one thing the U.S. was good at for a while. What're we good at now?! O_O

In before "Ruining them."

[Blarg]

I think Emile Hersch is pretty good, but most movies with monkeys in them fail

[Kiro]

Are you saying that Dunstin Checks In was a failure?!

[Headspace]

Are you saying that Dunstin Checks In was a failure?!

I thought he was talking about Next Friday.

[Starless]

That's either going to be the greatest movie on the planet or the worst. "Car-fu" sounds interesting, and not unlike the topic of a random filler chapter of Ranma 1/2.

[scrockstar]

Movie trailer is up in HD goodness.

http://movies.aol.com/movie/speed-racer-2008/28066/main

[Awoir]

FK YEA

[Hitoshura]

Dude Jack from Lost is Racer X, freakin' badass.

[Kiro]

There goes his career. :>

[Hitoshura]

Well I think it's pretty much over either way after Lost. Dude was a model and was in Party of Five and other old ass Fox drama's.

[Maxxthepenguin]

This is absolutely insane

I love it

[Hitoshura]

If they adapt to the insanely fast pace of the cartoon movie will be about 10 minutes long tops.

[Septimus]

I am currently trying my hardest to hate everyone involved in this impending travesty to death. Someone needs to explain to movie makers that throwing in a bunch of special effects will not make a shitty movie any less shitty, it just becomes shitty and expensive.