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I don't know too much about this other than there's a huge buzz about it.  SO heres an official thread with the official poster.  Usual rules apply:

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It's based on the Anime Speed Racer (aka Mach GoGoGo) from the 60's which was one of the first Anime to be a hit in the US.

As you can tell it's about racing cars...

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I thought there might be an anime link somewhere. Either that or it had something to do with matthew Reilley's Hover Car Racer, although thats been optioned by Disney.

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and it was a pretty damn good series, well it was last time i watched it, but as i have seen recently, i did watch alot of crap when i was younger :). should be interesting, do we know who is playing speed racer?

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The official site: SPEED RACER

Cast:

Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer

John Goodman as Pops Racer

Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer

Christina Ricci as Trixie

Scott Porter as Rex Racer

Matthew Fox as Racer X

Nayo Wallace as Minx

Hiroyuki Sanada as Mr. Musha

Rain (aka Ji Hoon Jung) as Taejo Togokhan

Yu Nan as the sister of Taejo Togokhan

Richard Roundtree as Ben Burns

Benno Fürmann as Inspector Detector

Roger Allam as Royalton

Kick Gurry as Sparky

Paulie Litt as Spritle

Milka Duno as Gearbox


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Here's the trailer for you all....



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Is it just me or does this film look AWFUL!

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To be fair it is aimed at kids and Im sure one of the anime crew will correct me if im wrong, but they've done it in a anime style if the cartoon was live action.

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I need say no more other than, this will suck!

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This would have been better off being an animated/GCI remake or at least kept the racing hi-tech but plausible. Aimed at kids or not, this looks awful.

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Latest news here is that Speed Racer will also be released in IMAX on it's initial release along with Kung Fu Panda and The Dark Knight...

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2 new trailers can be found by clicking the link.

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Exclusive Spped Racer clip can be found HERE

Click on the exclusive clip box on the bottom right of the screen...

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Came home to discover an invite to the official screening of Speed Racer yesterday... Lucky me.

Oh and an extended trailer (Another one) HERE

-- Edited by Darth Mattitude at 09:35, 2008-04-16

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So today I went to the Empire in Liecester Sq. (My favorite cinema.) and attended the Multimedia Press screening with my 6 year old. Visusally thi si amazing plot and character wise it sucks the big one, don't even get me started on the script. However the races and the general overall look of SR outweighs all of that. I had a proper adreneline rush in the last race. Overall better than I thought, plus it has the bonus of staying pretty faithful the the original source. If your a petrol head worth a look.

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Holy Crap peeps! I just CPC Movies on Ain't It Cool News...... About my Speed Racer review!!!

HERE

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Well done. But you'll have you forgive me when I ask: is this Ain't It Cool Site a big deal then?

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Aint It Cool is infamous film site Harry Knowles and his team are 'looked after' by the film studios because over the years Harry and his co-horts have been able to get spys into and onto film sets and screenigns and get the info out to the masses first. So much so that it has been said if Harry pans a film then it doesn't do very well.

It's visited by a few million people daily. So if a percentage of them click thelink and then a percentage of them then come to the forum....

If you look at the amount of people who have visited the forum in the past 24 hrs. The most it has ever been is around 50-60...

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AnimeUKNews:

Speed Racer flops at box-office; woe for live-ac anime films

On Friday last week, the latest Wachowski "Matrix trilogy" brothers action movie Speed Racer (based on the 1960s anime series Speed Racer (aka Mach GoGoGo)) opened in theaters worldwide, but has so far failed to achieve the kind of box-office sales required to be the big-budget Hollywood summer blockbuster many expected it to be. The film (now being classed as 'flop') took $20.2 million, far below the already scaled-down estimation of $30+ million.

With this news in mind, it brings into question the potential financial viability of the several other big-budget live action anime adaptations currently in-production; including the fast-approaching Dragonball movie, which has already been filmed, and the highly anticipated new Akira and Ghost in the Shell movie projects.


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It wasn't helped by the fact that it was released the week AFTER Iron Man which has done huge box office either. They normally wait at least 2 weeks on major summer releases.

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I actually cant wait to see this, its a film i know i would love being as im of child like mind ^_^.Im a big fan of Rain,the popular korean singer, who is a good actor so ill keep my eyes out for his role as well as Yu Nan.

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Well i still have to watch this, lets hope it lives up to my expectations, lol

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