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Updated! We Know Who's Shooting SPEED RACER!!

Wait a minute here... by Animus	Mar 4th, 2007 10:23:57 PM
FIRST!!!
Speed Racer = New Sky Captain? by tile_mcgillus	Mar 4th, 2007 10:25:04 PM
I might be one of the few people that love sky captain and am excited at the prospect of this...
Maybe they can get George Lucas to help? by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:25:05 PM
He's awesome.
CGI at the service of a cartoon by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:27:41 PM
CGI car. CGI chimp. CGI backgrounds. CGI races and stunts. CGI CGI CGI. Hell, they can avoid having a full-size car. They could just have the talent sit on green apple boxes making "vrooom" sounds. Should be swell!
Is Speed Racer actually about anything? by superninja	Mar 4th, 2007 10:27:56 PM
I mean, there is that Racer X subplot, but all I could gather is that it's like Scooby Doo and Speed would rather hang out with his car than Trixie. Or maybe it's a metaphor for life after all.
Animus by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:28:43 PM
SHUT UP. We could drop the "IM" from your name and you would be called "ANUS." How fitting.
ironically by BadMrWonka	Mar 4th, 2007 10:29:31 PM
Kylie minogues had an all green screen video for "love at first sight"... (it's not my fault, I was living in europe, she was EVERYWHERE!!)
ironically by BadMrWonka	Mar 4th, 2007 10:29:40 PM
Kylie minogue had an all green screen video for "love at first sight"... (it's not my fault, I was living in europe, she was EVERYWHERE!!)
Speed Racer very Metaphysical by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:30:35 PM
"Speed, you can choose to take the side streets, and you can go back to your normal life. But if you take the express way, then you can never go back." We find out that Pops' first name is actually Morpheus.
Speed Racer = Jeff Gordon by Darth Fabulous	Mar 4th, 2007 10:33:52 PM
Perfect casting even if he can't act.
Flames on Nipples=Sexy Beanpole Optimus! by Darth_Nader	Mar 4th, 2007 10:35:53 PM
Chim-chim gotta eat y'all.
Haley Joel Osmet by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:36:24 PM
Except didn't he get a DUI? Maybe he could get a designated driver.
Check this quote from Joel Silver at Empire by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:40:45 PM
"To get fanboys either scratching their heads or thumping their fists, Silver also offered the following tease: "I don't know if we'll even use any cars". Which could mean that we'll be seeing another mighty CG leap from the brothers. Or that this Speed Racer will be riding a tricycle. Which would be kinda awesome, in a really really slow Straight Story kinda way."
Mel Gibson as Speed by zacdilone	Mar 4th, 2007 10:42:25 PM
"I'm going to win this race fair and square, sugar tits."
Mel Gibson = Speed Racist by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:46:15 PM
Had to.
Why... by Uncle Clay	Mar 4th, 2007 10:54:47 PM
can't Hollywood just leave my childhood alone, for Christ's sake? I mean, I have ENOUGH trouble remembering it; I don't need them constantly re-writing it for me...
Because they are banking on you bringing by Bronx Cheer	Mar 4th, 2007 10:56:30 PM
your kids. It's genius, really. Go for the nostalgia, and sucker them with the appeal to share their childhood with their kids.
I would rather make a Kylie Minogue video than... by DocBosch	Mar 4th, 2007 11:18:12 PM
...pretty much do anything. She's hot. She got cancer, though, poor girl. I'd still hit that though.
Yeah its so expensive to film a car driving. by modlight	Mar 4th, 2007 11:33:59 PM
I see why it'd be green screen. WTF.
Johnny Quest.... by Quake II	Mar 4th, 2007 11:48:17 PM
Needs to be made into a feature film. And keep it in the 60's with the weapons, vehicles and tight fitting clothes. Speed Racer would be ok if done strictly for Gen X fans and not "modernized".
Hollywood CAN'T leave your childhood alone... by TheGhostWhoLurks	Mar 4th, 2007 11:52:09 PM
Because all of the movers and shakers out there are YOUR age now, and since they have no imaginations themselves, they're forced to mine whatever "creative" ideas they can dredge up from their own pathetic pop-culture recollections of 1968-1985. Expect the Justice League movie to have Wendy, Marvin and Wonder-Dog in it, just 'cause some idiot remembers that they used to "hang" with Black Vulcan.
Speed Racer = Piece of Shit? by StarBlitzer	Mar 4th, 2007 11:52:34 PM
You heard it here first!!
While we're on the topic... by Quake II	Mar 4th, 2007 11:53:41 PM
If I came into a pile of money, I would write and finance a GI Joe Adventure Team movie that fathers & sons would watch 20 times at the theater. It would be the and all be all adventure movie. Throw in a hot spy woman/love interest to get the ladies into the theater, but mostly have battles with giant cobras, sea creatures, mummies and a Yeti. All in 1 film.
I would rather bang Kylie Minogue than... by Darth Fabulous	Mar 4th, 2007 11:54:06 PM
...watch the drivel this will ultimately turn out being. Right on Doc...I think she's cancer free now, plus I'm sure we would be better than that Robbie Williams douchebag.
Chim Chim = Carlos Mencia by ironburl	Mar 5th, 2007 12:21:31 AM
Speed Racer = Joe Rogan
just a wee batshit by oisin5199	Mar 5th, 2007 12:23:15 AM
We are talking about the same pair whose one member left his wife, started dressing in drag and married a tranny dominatrix, right? I'd say the Wachowskis passed wee batshit quite some time ago.
Relax Your Anus by godoffireinhell	Mar 5th, 2007 12:43:45 AM
I want you all to relax your anus.
Chim Chim = Andy Dick by Darth Fabulous	Mar 5th, 2007 12:52:49 AM
Speed Racer = Dave Foley
Teh Fuck? by Motoko Kusanagi	Mar 5th, 2007 01:34:48 AM
anus relaxed
a demon on wheels by iwontwin	Mar 5th, 2007 01:40:37 AM
Rosie o donnell on a tricycle?
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 5th, 2007 01:43:44 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
I thought you said taking the freeway was Suicide! by uss cygnus	Mar 5th, 2007 02:33:52 AM
No, only watching "Reloaded" and "Revolutions" back to back would accomplish that. Let us hope...that I was wrong. Tank, load the "Redo movies 2&3 of the trilogy" program."
Guess who got offered SPEED role by DonMurphysTool	Mar 5th, 2007 03:35:52 AM
Shia LaBoeuf- no joke
Greenscreen = CGI = ...... by Ray Gamma	Mar 5th, 2007 03:57:59 AM
Greenscreen = CGI = Cecil B. Demille rolling in his grave.
Syd Mead designed the cars. They were built years ago. by Uncapie	Mar 5th, 2007 04:06:43 AM
Originally, they were going to shoot it at Laguna Secca, but WB pulled the plug. Now, its going to be shot in Romania with CGI. Those cars exist, but where are they?
"passed wee batshit" by Onomaki Forp	Mar 5th, 2007 06:11:12 AM
oisin, I don't think you meant it to sound that way...but boy is that sentence funny!
It's "DP" by Mister Man	Mar 5th, 2007 06:35:51 AM
Not DoP. People, PLEASE.
Joel Silver once said Neo would clone himself... by Ravetin	Mar 5th, 2007 07:13:08 AM
In the Matrix sequels. Never fucking listen to him.
I don't care who is going to shoot Speed Racer. by Ingeld	Mar 5th, 2007 07:45:14 AM
I just want to know who will be willing to shoot me if I get anywhere near this movie when it comes out.
MisterMan by wackynephews	Mar 5th, 2007 07:47:00 AM
Both are acceptable as terms for a cinematographer. DoP is a little more common amongst NA cinematographers and DP is used more with European cinematographers. Now go be a pretentious ass somewhere else...
This project has been in the works for SO LONG by Dasher	Mar 5th, 2007 08:29:19 AM
So long, in fact, that I remember seeing a model of the new Mach 5 that was going to be used in this film. It was 12 years ago at the NYC Licensing Show. The car had a very hi-tech look - it was all sleek and silver, nothing like the cartoon version. Who knows if the Wachowskis will still use this design, but the studio probably has it if they want it.
Bring on "Wacky Races" with Penelope Pitstop by Doctor_Sin	Mar 5th, 2007 09:43:30 AM
Yeah - this will probably be a fun ride (no pun intended). But, all-cgi cars? Hey, I loved Sky Captain, so I'll wait and see.
Someone should SHOOT Joel Silver by Frank Duckett	Mar 5th, 2007 10:06:34 AM
with a potato gun. in the bum-beree.
Relax, there will still be real cars! by Johnno	Mar 5th, 2007 10:08:23 AM
But of course they'll have to use extensive CGI to make all that crazy shit happen in races... Knowing them there's no way they'll be able to pull this all off all physically... You want them to build another highway just for that??? And yeah a lot of those vehicles in Reloaded were CGI... mostly the parts where Trinity is driving against traffic on her motorcyce, which is why the camera suddenly went under the truck to show you, "Hey! betcha you thought that was real didn'tcha?" Shit even the guy sitting beside me at the theatre exclaimed, "Holy shit, and this was all done for real!" They were trying to screw around with the audience to see what aprts they'll recognize to be CGI and what parts aren't. I bet there are shots in the film of Hugo and Keanua that are jsut teh digital doubles. Hell, there's even a pic on the official site that's just the two of them standing still labelled VFX shot. And lastly, fuck all haters of the Matrix Sequels! And I can't wait to see some crazy shit in this movie, hope there's plenty of bullet time because we can't get enough of that :P
Speed! Ah! by Saluki	Mar 5th, 2007 10:14:08 AM
There are so many ways this movie could play out, but a family movie from the Bros. W? I'd buy that for dollar! Iron Man? Narnia? Indy? No, the real visceral attraction of May '08 is going to be a demon on wheels! Oh, and actors and cinematographers refusing to shoot on green screen can go suck a fat one.
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE IS RACER X!!! by Err	Mar 5th, 2007 10:14:12 AM
I hope they have the actor portray the characters in the horrible animated way. That would rule.
Sure the DP is good, by purplemonkeydw	Mar 5th, 2007 10:47:43 AM
but did you hear who they got for Best Boy??? damn, this site is getting detailed!
...only way it can be good... by mr ahole ramirez	Mar 5th, 2007 10:57:27 AM
Is if it purposely bad like the show...the show sucked except for the sayinganentireparagraphinonequ icksentencehahaha and that car jumpin sound...other than that, what are you expectin outta this? this is more of a worst concept for a movie than Transformers (yea I said it TF fans/geeks)
HA HA HA HA by Daddylonghead	Mar 5th, 2007 11:53:50 AM
All CGI... I hope the whole movie will be as authentic and high-quality as that "Multiple Mr. Smiths" fight scene from the Matrix Reloaded. You know, where it looked like a 1998 video game cutscene for a while? 'Cause that was super!!
SPEED RACER: NEXT YEAR'S "SKY CAPTAIN" + "GHOST RIDER" by Daddylonghead	Mar 5th, 2007 12:12:45 PM
except more ghey.
The Trailer is on You Tube by rdwarer	Mar 5th, 2007 02:06:35 PM
Hmmmmm... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =iFNyNIHXo1A
Oops... by rdwarer	Mar 5th, 2007 02:09:59 PM
http://tinyurl.com/yoczvz
This has been in production a long time by Snookeroo	Mar 5th, 2007 02:32:15 PM
About ten years ago I was doing some work with Warner Bros, and got to see some of their production work. At the time, they were well into producing Speed Racer, going so far as to cast Tom Cruise in the role. At the time, I didn't even know who "Speed Racer" was, but was blown away by the full-size clay model of the car they had in the works. I guess the whole project must have fallen apart, because I never heard anything else about it. Funny that it is surfacing now, so many years later.
After the Wachowskis finish Speed Racer by dead.legend	Mar 5th, 2007 04:31:09 PM
they ought to start working on that inevitable and much needed fourth and final Matrix movie. I hope I'm not the first to throw it out there, because it's probably gonna happen. Just pay attention to the damned story from Revolutions and you'll conclude that, like Tank stated in the original movie, "as long as the matrix exists, the human race will never be free". And guess what? It still exists in the end of the last movie. Forget all the "the matrix needs people and vice versa" shit. Neo will come back Jesus-style and wreak bad-ass havok on the machines single-handedly, revalations-style. Call it "The Matrix: Revalation". Or whatever. Sounds cooler than Speed Racer ever will be.
That was really just Tank's take on it dead.legend by Johnno	Mar 5th, 2007 04:50:31 PM
Besides ask yourself, what is the Matrix? As Morpheus said, "Control." Human beings aren't free because they cannot make a choice as to which reality they prefer to live in. Some like Cypher prefer the Matrix, others prefer the real world. The whole issue was that there was never any choice and the Machines were the masters. By Revolutions end a common threath in Smith forced a truce between the machines and humans. And it ends with the humans being offered that choice of where they'd rather be. The truce would hold for as long as it can, because ultimately it's human frailty that can make or break it as the machines by nature will not go against their word. The final resolution of mankind and their place in the world is left up to the viewer... or the people who hopped onboard the Matrix Online and decide fate for themselves. Personally if there is going to be more Matrix, I'd prefer another cool Animatrix DVD with various other talented people's takes in the Matrix universe, or a full scale 2nd Renaissance film. But best animated as I doubt any live action attempt will be able to hold a candle to what Mahiro Maeda did. And to teh guy complaining about the Burly Brawl resembling a video game cutscene... well it was 100% CGI made to look at photoreal as possible... for those who criticize it, I dare you to show me where it's been done better.
It's going to be like the chase in Matrix Reloaded by NoPIX	Mar 5th, 2007 05:30:35 PM
They'be obviously latched onto whatever technology or ideas they had for that long sequence.
I fucking hate Hollywood by cinematt	Mar 5th, 2007 06:25:24 PM
And so, another beloved childhood memory gets the big screen anything for a fucking dollar treatment. This is going to be nothing like the cartoon series, so that's going to alienate the audience that grew up on it. The youth market of today neither know or care about Speed Racer, and they will probably stay away in droves, and this will bomb. First Underdog and now Speed Racer, both getting crapped on by Hollywood execs without a soul and not caring one damn bit about the people who made this a possible franchise to be made. So help me God, if anybody even dares to touch Jonny Quest, I will commit an act of suicide that will be so horrible and grotesque that it will make the lead story of every major news organization in the world. I fucking hate Hollywood...
Hey WB by emeraldboy	Mar 5th, 2007 07:16:46 PM
MAKE THE FUCKING JETSONS MOVIE! That has been at Warners for about the same time as the Wonder Woman movie. 2 decades. sheesh
There will never be a fourth Matrix movie by emeraldboy	Mar 5th, 2007 07:19:50 PM
Ever. What happened to Neo. He just disappeared. Just like the plot up its own ass.
You're probably right, cinematt... by Son of Batman	Mar 5th, 2007 08:54:33 PM
after all, the Wachowskis have a habit of misadapting other people's works. V for Vendetta was completely different from the graphic novel and they totally misrepresented Plato's cave analogy in the Matrix. Oh, wait, no they don't and you're talkng out of your smelly ass. Toodles.
Gweneth Paltrow=Penelope Pitstop by uss cygnus	Mar 5th, 2007 08:56:31 PM
Rawr.
Johnno: Where the "burly brawl" was done better? by Daddylonghead	Mar 5th, 2007 09:02:26 PM
"The Protector," in that preposterously long single take where Tony Jaa runs up the huge staircase, brutalizing a thousand bad guys in all kinds of improbable ways. You could never tell the whole thing was done with CGI... ... BECAUSE IT WASN'T, BECAUSE IT WAS SHOT BY A REAL FILMMAKER.
This guy is a mediocre dp. by mr. brownstone	Mar 5th, 2007 10:01:48 PM
At least judging by his work thus far. His work is flat and uninteresting. You'de think the bros would go with someone with a little more flair, but if the whole thing is green screen maybe they are planning on "lighting" it digitally and wanted someone with plenty of chroma kay experience or something.
Gatchaman would be an absolute disaster live by superninja	Mar 5th, 2007 10:19:51 PM
action, but man do I love those character designs!
Mmm...Race.... by superninja	Mar 5th, 2007 10:22:37 PM
I'd like a Johnny Quest movie if Hugh Jackman played Race.
Ravetin by Tenebre	Mar 5th, 2007 10:53:37 PM
Actually, In one of the early Matrix 2 drafts Neo was fighting a clone of himself that was working for the matrix, not Smith. So..what he said was not too far off.
Tony Jaa fought a thousand people who looked the same? by Johnno	Mar 5th, 2007 11:06:46 PM
All filling up the screen at once in a large open area and trying to jump his ass as a mob at the same time rather than 1x1 or 2? Where despite Tony Jaa's amazing ability could he defy gravity and pull off the impossible feats that Neo does? And does teh camera at any point become free to rotate around the action in a physically impossible manner to drive home the concept of virtual cinematography? Are you kidding me? Sure that was cool and all (personally I like the continuous hallway scene from Oldboy better and it didn't need any fancy martial arts), but it's nothing at all alike to the Matrix! Frankly a better comparison would be Kill Bill Vol 1's House of Blue Leaves fight, and even that doesn't feature the same level of complexity or free range camera movement. When you find a real fimmaker who can pull off exactly what Reloaded did without CGI, you let me know...
Get The Matrix Team Back... by omnislash 2.0	Mar 6th, 2007 12:31:53 AM
Throw Neo and Agent Smith in there...
Red Line will be the New Speed Racer! by Johnno	Mar 6th, 2007 01:44:28 AM
http://tinyurl.com/29fv4b Damn I love this Takeshi Koike guy! He's the same guy who directed World Record in Animatrix! Maybe they should get him onboard :D
Yes, I 2 by Napoleon Park	Mar 6th, 2007 05:17:47 AM
Yup, I would also like to see a Jonny Quest live action movie. Maybe then the general public would understand the Venture Brothers.
Johnno by dead.legend	Mar 6th, 2007 11:52:58 AM
I don't believe that's even possible. The level of choreography just cannot be achieved. I WISH IT COULD. But until the fourth Matrix film, I'll just have to watch Tony Jaa rule ass on Jet Li and Jackie Chan and all the rest of the phonies.
It's too soon! by comin_your_way	Mar 6th, 2007 10:12:18 PM
Fuck me that never gets old ;o)

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