Slowmotion Racer?
So I actually heard about this movie off of a Lost (the hit TV series) fan site. It was on there due to Matthew Fox playing the roll of Racer X. While the animated series was a little before my time I still got very into it as a kid and am excited the Wachowski Bros. are doing a live-action version. You might remember them from their work on Matrix. The movie will be shot mostly on greenscreen (like 300) which could be good or bad. I can just imagine Speed hitting that "jump" button in the cockpit and everything slowing down as the Mach 5 leaps over an oil slick and the camera doing a 360 pan in slowmotion. While the stylings of the Wachowski Brothers might work for things like Matrix, or even a liveaction version of Akira (wishfull thinking), I'm not so sure it will be well suited for Speed Racer. Don't get me wrong I loved their direction in Matrix but their work in V for Vendetta was a little shoddy. The truth is that while Speed Racer is an anime series, it's context is very different. It's wholesome goodness, no spaceships, alien wars, or demigods with animal appendages. I hope they don't muck it up.