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Jack did end up getting off the island! Now he's a professional driver making SPEED RACER's life miserable!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I love that LOST is starting to find its footing again after a string of hits and misses this season. And I love that we're starting to see cast members pop up in flicks.
Matthew Fox appeared in WE ARE MARSHALL and SMOKIN' ACES recently, but now it looks like he's locked down his big movie to do during the summer hiatus.
He's going to be playing Racer X, SPEED RACER's nemesis in the Wachowski Bros. flick.
I love that casting. I love all the casting so far. Also cast was an Australian actor named Kick Gurry who will play Sparky, Speed's mechanic.
This is looking pretty damn cool.
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I hope there's random flashbacks for Racer X's past.
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sounds good to me.
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So boring. Everything he does.
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i simply love this casting and echo Quint's sentiments about all the casting, emile, ricci and now jack shepherd, we must be doing something right because the speed racer gods are smiling down on us today, this should be very cool if the wachowski's make it badass and don't dumb it down
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I certainly don't like the project, or those involved with it. Matthew Fox getting involved doesn't change my view. And I doubt his ability to play a bad guy.
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IF you want to bash a project. Please have some rudimentary knowledge OF THE PROPERTY YOU ARE BASHING! Yes; this works on a project by prokect basis. Nevertheless, I would have prefered Keanu, but Matthew looks more like a big brother to Emil Hirsch. The Wachowskis are going to blow your minds again. At least this time, there wont be all of this PHILOSOPHY, that goes over your head. Ha.
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...a proper villian or just another driver who's racing against the hero? (Never seen SR before)
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does sound a bit like a spoiler for people who live in countries that just aired the second season of lost. Not that I wish you die and burn in hell. Just saying.
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Let there be a full on Racer War!
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Or something like that.
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...a golden opportunity for the headline! "Party of Mach Five"! Huh? Huh? Ah...fuck it.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=WozmcTG23Cc
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I do like Fox as an actor now. I always dismissed him because of PO5 but now....
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Casting is spot-on, certainly better than vince vaughn
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It feels like it.Does anybody else out there feel like it's probably a really good show and everybody around you is always talking about but still for some reason you just don't watch it?Call me, we'll form a support group. There will be weekly meetings after my "Daniel Craig is not Bond" support group. We can work through this together.
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That is all. This movie is just damn weird.
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I thought you were talking about Jack from POTC....poop...Depp wouldve made the PERFECT Racer X...as you can see...my name comes from my love for the old speed racer..and i say Depp!
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since when is racer X a villain? stupid ass stupid motherfuckers
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Is Locke going to throw a knife to take out Speed Racer's tires?
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The rest of the cast is cool, but this bit of casting has really piqued my interest. Gurry's a really good actor (check out his role in Mamet's criminally-underseen Spartan). Good to see him getting some big exposure.
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Racer X was NEVER a villain, what the fuck are you guys smoking. He always HELPED Speed along because (big reveal that they told you EVERY Racer X episode) HE WAS SPEEDS GOD DAMN BROTHER.
If they really made him the villain of this movie there is no fucking way Im watching it. Thats basically changing the entire dynamic of the Speed Racer storyline. -
...he is capable of having fun onscreen and not just squinting and clenching his jaw a lot.
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...who will be playing Spritle and Chim-Chim? Or will the Wachosgubgdskis wise up and dump those idiotic characters?
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? Just wondering.
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...bullet time car wrecks are they going to put in this thing? These guys haven't done anything worth watching twice since the first Matrix... and it turned out the second two Matrix movies were barely worth seeing once.
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That movie was proof Fox could play a real a-hole. Also amusing to point out that Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Renee Zelwegger and Matthew McConaghey show up during the movie. And this Kick fellow looks perfect for Sparky- http://tinyurl.com/2my9ax
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Forget the a-hole stuff. Is he gonna find out, or are they going to milk it for a sequel?
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Hells yes.
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Hells yes.
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At best they'll churn out one movie decent enough to sit through; then they'll try milking that cash cow for all it's worth and put out two ridiculously bloated sequels. Much as they did with The Matrix. (Although the first Matrix was an amazing film. I doubt Speed Racer will be anywhere near that good.)
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"You're a chicken, Speed! A chicken! CAWKA CAW! CAWKA CAWKA CAWKA CAWKA CAWKA CAWKA CAWKA CAW!" And then Jeffrey Tambor as his dad: "Your Tweety Bird dance just cost you first place you MORON!"
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Must be an age thing..
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That's a great f'n name.
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Thats a much better heading...kudos Sir, kudos
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That's some good soup. I always thought having the Bros. W on this was just too funny to be true. Now we are going to have one ball's out ride for sure.
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You got a minor piece of trivia wrong, you asshole! Now I'm going to use the fucking internet to fucking yell and fucking swear as if that fucking mis-information is a fucking personal fucking attack at fucking me! You piece of shit! Fuck! Arrgh! SWEAR WORDS!!!
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You know you were thinking it.
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Apr 19, 2007 11:50:37 AM CDT
Now we can finally find out how Racer X got his tattoos
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and their true meaning.
Now Nathan Fillion needs to make in appearance in Charger from Drive. -
Looks a little older than the character was on the show, but I'm sure he'll be great in the part...
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Hell I don't watch anything on TV anymore since X-Files... the only exceptions I'd make time for are Simpsons, Family Guy and Gundam SEED Destiny...
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I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, its the all powerful dolla billz that command the watchowskiaz. They made a killing off the matrices, and despit how lousy they were, big hollywood's accountants love the guys
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You heard it here first....
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here's a thought, i just want to post this to my fellow asians out there. do u think it's wrong that no asians are in this movie even thought it's based on an asian cartoon? Just curious. I'm asian and i'm a little miffed but i do realize i may be overly sensitive about this issue. what do u guys think.
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Living is Canada I was appalled when that student shot and killed 33 students. Reading the papers and watching TV, I was hearing that this chap was an Asian, then he was Korean. This is despite the fact that he moved to the US when he was 8! He was American. But, this is not the case in the eyes of some. If he won an Olympic medal, he would have been American. He was a brutal killer....I guess he is Asian....
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...that you don't know who he is? You'd think they would have left that a surprise. Also, my Speed Racer knowledge is fuzzy by about 30 years, but didn't he turn out to be Speed's older brother?
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Not really, since that is mentioned from early on in the show...it has to do with how Racer X betrayed (sort of) Pops Racer...
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I havent seen a single episode of lost either. everyone i know says Im missing out but i missed the first few episodes and by that time I had already decided it seemed like one of those shows that if you miss a week or 2 your missing out on too much.
i know i could just go out and rent it on dvd but I got too much other stuf goign on and too many other shows im actually following to give it a shot right now. maybe on a rainy w/e ill hit up the store and rent the first few disks of season 1 just to see if it might be something I could see myself watching.
and as for the support group, Im there as long as theres free coffee and I can smoke in there.
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Awesome. He'll be all like "VROOM!" and "SKREEEEEECH!"
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If the Transformers movies take off, I hope we can get a Gundam-style movie some day. Since Gundams seem like absurd giant samurai robots to most Americans, that kind of art style would have to be left behind. But I think the Gundam-style space opera storylines could be cool. After all, it's basically Star Wars but with giant robots.
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But I don't see a problem.
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Guess we suck! :)
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He seemed like he wanted the role since he talked about it so much.
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Now I know how some of the younger talkbackers feel when they read about movies made from stuff back in my childhood days, Transformers and talk of a possible G.I. Joe movie. Oh, and I'll join the Non-Lost support group. I mean, c'mon. Miss one show and you're . . . for lack of a better word, lost? That's too much pressure.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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flames on the mach five = nipples on trixie. Okay, I'm not even trying, but hell, it's speed racer. wake me when they make a live action gigantor movie.
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At least there are other people who don't watch LOST for the same lack of reasons as I.My support group for people who never got into LOST will serve coffee and you can smoke. We'll have a round robin discussion and then vote on which water cooler television series of the past that we missed out on that we would now like to see. I vote for Twin Peaks. Heard it's good.Thanks guys.
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he meant Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp!!
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Doubtful, but them and their leader Captain Terror, with those massive teeth, would be cool. Hope they find a red shirt Goodman can fit into.
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Fox is practically a foot taller than the lead.
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You know it to be true. Oh wait, this is 2007 and not 1997? Sorry. Coma thing and such.
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I would like to sign up for your group. I'm sure it's a "good" show but for God's sake, talk about something else you assholes. How many god damn secrets can Entertainment Weekly exclusively reveal? I'm so tired of hearing about that one. Same goes for American Idol and 24.
As for your Daniel Craig group, you're in luck - he actually did play James Bond in a movie called "Casino Royale," not the old comedy one but the one that came out last year. Check it out bud it is actually the first entertaining James Bond movie in about forty years. Also check out Munich he's good in that one too. thanks spandau. -
With the whole Eagle Ken's dad is really....? Subplot. And keep Berg Katse a fucking alien-hellspawn transsexual test tube baby.
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American t.v. runs everything into the ground.
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even though it's finding footing now, it's taxing as hell that everyone on every street corner at least knows someone who can babble endlessly about LOST. hello, cult hit?
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so no word on Speed's actual villian Snake Oiler yet.... hopefully they will be casting this part soon and maybe more of the Stunt Racers that Speed raced against every few episodes.
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Could've sworn they were now the Wachowski siblings. At least that's what I read the other night while watching Ninja Warrior...
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They already made a live action Gigantor movie in Japan like two years ago. Somebody post a link.
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...who ran away from home, years ago." Now, if they're gonna be true to the series, you KNOW there's gotta be a narrator, and you KNOW he's gonna say that line at least once! Also, it would help if the narrator performed at least three other voices in the movie, one of them being Inspector Detector, another being some sort of second-tier villain who'd say something like "It was exactly ONE YEAR AGO TODAY that SPEED RACER DEFEATED US! We SWORE we'd GET our REVENGE! That time is ALMOST AT HAND! HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAA!" I'm not sure who the third voice would be; maybe just one of the many "HUH?"s or "AH!"s or "OOH"s that you heard a hundred or so times. I swear, you put enough of those together and it sounds just like Speed and Trixie going at it...oh wait, Alpha Team already did that...well anyway, the movie should give all us dudes who grew up on Speed Racer a boner with a capital "O"! And the finale better involve Chim-Chim summoning a thousand of his monkey friends from wherever to help fight the bad guys (at least one guy has to get shredded right after he yells something like "Whoever said a barrel of monkeys was FUUUNNNNNNNNN?!?")!
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"Speed Racer gods..." ? Aha.
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...ah well this speed racer movie should have been left up to the Japanese. Right now it reeks of some Godzilla (90s) leftovers.
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You're welcome to come to my "never got on the LOST bandwagon" support group. You can even use a cheesy alias on your name tag Fight Club-style. However I think you misunderstand my "Daniel Craig is not Bond" support group. This is a support group for people who did not get all the love for Daniel Craig's performance in Casino Royale (not the comedy one, unless you consider that wonky endless frolicking montage with he and Eva).I'm not sure if you've seen the trailer for DIE HARD 4, but my group has taken action and we have John McClane hostage. We've produced DIE HARD 4 as a retaliation to CASINO ROYALE. You guys wanna turn Bond into McClane with his gruff workingclass everyman ass kicking, we're going to fight back and turn McClane into Bond. As our randsom letter (the trailer) shows, McClane now makes cheesy quips "You curshed that guy with a car!"..."I ran out of bullets!", McClane now does outrageous stunts and pilots jets and battles full on meglomaniacs complete with high-tech evil layers.You meet us in a public place with Pierce Brosnan and we'll do a trade-off for pre-Sixth Sense Bruce Willis. Nobody gets hurt, everybody goes home happy. BTW Vern, what are you doing checking out Entertainment Weekly? I'm not sure if you've noticed but EW is a weekly mainstream entertainment magazine. It is obsessed with THE PRESENT and creating a culture of the present where the past is embarassing and knowledge of it is something so volatile that it can only be mentioned in passing by Tarantino (like how you can't directly look at an eclypse). I think EW is the main political force behind legitimizing remakes and the rise of Mark Walhberg. Seriously mate, if you're reading that garbage anywhere but the dentist's office you've got to stop. We can handle this at our support group if you like. We'll ween you off it bud. If you've already got severe symptoms like anticipating a Shrek sequel you should check into a full-time recovery facility.See you around.
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when i think of bond, i think sean connery, i know i know, its cliche to say that but its true.
and I did however like craig in layer cake, quite a bit infact.
and as for other shows to talk about round the ole water cooler, Im feeling the "twin peaks" mention, but i also would rather talk about why some shows are still on the air , Im looking at you "According to jim" , and the "george lopez show"
I mean seriously, i know americans have a tolerance for comedians who get their own sitcoms with their names in the title of the show, but seriously, has either of those two ever been funny in anything they have done......?
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good to know the coffees free and I can smoke their. Im starting to feel like a leper with the lack of places i can smoke in... i cant even go into a denny's anymore and smoke. where else do all the insomniacs hang out at 3am.... pretty soon its gonna be that i cant even smoke in the privacy of my own home.
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