Speed Racer Trailer -- GO!!!

[Logan Darklighter]

Okay, I have been skeptical pretty much from the word go on the whole idea of bringing Speed Racer to live action. Well it's official -

NOW I am beginning to be IMPRESSED!

I think they have made the right decision here in terms of the world and how to portray it. You CAN'T bring Speed Racer into the real world. Not really. So
the solution? Make the world as BATSHIT INSANE as the original series.

I think this...

JUST.

MIGHT.

WORK.

[Ankhani]

It looks quite interesting. I am reminded of the saying "That's crazy. So crazy it just...might...WORK!" indeed. Worthy of a follow up when
things move along further.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Sweno]

the trailer is definitely interesting, but that is no guarantee of quality.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Herr Bad Moon]

It's like they made an Extreme G movie.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

[Kokuten]

who.. who's that _girl_?

Is that (the Female Romantic Interest) Michelle Meyrink, late of Real Genius?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[s3yang]

Nah, it's Christina Ricci.

[Bob Schroeck]

Yeah, Michelle Meyrink is in her forties or so now -- she's contemporary with Peggy and myself, maybe a couple years older -- and according to IMDB
hasn't acted in a TV show or movie since 1988.

Is it just me, btw, or does Ricci's Trixie look like she has a little more attitude to her than the original?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[s3yang]

Oh definitely, but then, we're comparing a 2008 version of the character to one from the late 60's.

[Star Ranger4]

She'd need to, otherwise people who arnt familiar with the source would complain about her being 2d....
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

I really hope the Wachowskis don't try to tell us that all this craziness is just a little kid's dream...

--Sam

"Oh, there's crime here. I can smell it."

[Norgarth]

On the topic of taking old shows and updating them for a feature film, there's an A-Team movie due out in the summer of 2009.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2008/03/20/5060046-zap.html
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

[robkelk]

On the topic of taking old shows and updating them for a feature film, there's an A-Team movie due out in the summer of 2009.

Hmmmmm... No cast list.

I wonder if they'll try to get Katee Sackhoff to play "Faceman"... 8)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

You know, there's something both twisted and delightfully appropriate about that idea...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.