Comments on: Speed Racer Trailer = Live Action Video Game

By: Elwood

Elwood — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:41:37 +0000

Did anyone else notice that in the second picture, it appears that the “mach 5″ is spinning out; however, the number on the car is “6″? Perhaps a dream sequence. . . ?

By: steve adams

steve adams — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:28:55 +0000

All this about the Mach 5 and it reminded me of the film/video game, “Spy Hunter”. I’m sure that game was somewhat inspired by Speedracer.
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I havnt checked the Screenrant archives for current news but this film was supposed to come out allready.
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The “star” of the film was the Rock Dewayne Johnson.
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The Xbox SpyHunter “the movie” video game came out months ago.
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Anyone know what’s up on this?

By: steve adams

steve adams — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:28:50 +0000

Unlike the JLA film, this one is being done by (Watchoski bros) those that love this show.
They both are heavy into the Japanese art and Anima.
They gave it to the right Team.
It should be real good!!!
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Ricci looks smoking hot!!

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:14:25 +0000

LOL,John Taylor!

Sounds damn cool,steve!

By: steve adams

steve adams — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:01:40 +0000

HaaHaa Kel,,=>
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Yea this first “Speedracer” film should start out telling the tale of how Speedy gets his Mach 5 in racing and how Racer X trys to warn him to stay out of the way of this mob boss guy. Racer X ultimatly helps Speedy out and then vanishes.
Leaving his identity unknown.
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But fans of the show know who he is.
(I won’t spoil it for those that don’t).

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:57:33 +0000

Kel, you need to stop that hiccuping. BOOO!!! Did that help? )

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:53:39 +0000

Sorry.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:52:57 +0000

Cool.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:51:55 +0000

Cool.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:45:04 +0000

Crap,man! I don’t remember that! I’m totally seeing this!

By: steve adams

steve adams — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:37:18 +0000

Yea John, they raced on all kinds of weird racetracks in the cartoon.
The show was a very out-there japanese/american anime show.
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Looks like the Wachoski Bros captured it. There was also all kind of weird cars. The badguys all wore the same clothes and drove these cool black looking cars.
Cars with Guns.
The Mach 5, Speedracers car had these cool saw-blades that would come out in front and cut thru any barrier.

It was a badass show for kids back then!!
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Didn’t see it in the trailer but I hope the get the visor on Speedys helmet. I only saw it without the visor.

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:26:01 +0000

A co-worker said it looked too chessy for him but I think I’ll take my boys to see it. I’ll probably like it more than them anyway. Did they have the races inside in the cartoon?

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:52:35 +0000

Hey Gordon, welcome to the site. Don’t think I’ve seen you here before.

Best,

Vic

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:45:56 +0000

It looks like they may be going for a mix of the rather manic style of the cartoon with a more “fleshed-out” approached.

I’m sold. I wanna see it.

By: steve adams

steve adams — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:41:03 +0000

I didn’t see the trailer till this morn, WOW.
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Goodman as papa, very cool,,
This film looks VERY COOL…!!!
And the guy that plays Speed looks perfectly cast as well as Racer X.
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Very excited !!!

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:20:41 +0000

Same here,B W.

By: Brian W.

Brian W. — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:04:10 +0000

i always hated the Scooby Doo cartoon, but when i saw the movie i was like “wow, that was exactly what a movie based on the cartoon should be”. That’s how i think this looks, it looks exactly like what a movie based on Speed Racer should look like.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:55:35 +0000

And yeah,I’d trade the rumored JLA film’s runtime of 90 minutes for this flick anyday. This will probably be dumb if it runs longer than an hour and a half. Now,JLA will be bad if it isn’t at least 2 hours and 15 minutes.

By: KEL

KEL — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:53:23 +0000

Hmmm. I don’t really know what to think. It looked cool and all,with the special FX,you can kind of see how they’re goin’ for a “realistic” take on some of the classic anime-ish scenes from the cartoon with the adults screaming at the kid and stuff. But then it still kinda makes me think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a little. It might be worth checking out,maybe on one of my trips back from seeing Iron Man I’ll see it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:31:36 +0000

Shockingly impressive! The stills take away from the film, but the trailer was exciting(like SR growing up). This film could be much more successful than predicted(ex:Transformers).