Peep a batch of new pics from the eye-popping Wachowski summer flick.
(Pictures and text from Rotten Tomatoes, EW.com and Wikipedia)
Here he Comes! Here comes Speed Racer! And here comes Emile Hirsch, playing the title character in Andy and Larry Wachowski's homage to the much-loved Japanimated TV series about a boy and his race car, the brothers' first film as writer-directors since 2003's Matrix Revolutions. "Larry and Andy said they always thought [the tv series] was one of the most visually interesting cartoons when they were growing up" said Hirsch. In these exclusive photos from the film (out May 9), it's easy to see the duo have splashed that feeling all over the big screen - in ultra-vivid, eye-burning technicolor.
Speed Racer was invented in the 1960s by a Japanese comic book artist named Tatsuo Yoshida, who named his manga and TV show Mach Go Go Go. An American TV syndicator bought the rights, Go was renamed Speed and the re-dubbed series debuted stateside in September of 1967, spending nearly two decades in reruns.
No, this isn't a real race track, and Speed's trusty Mach 5 isn't a real race car. The directors and their visual effects crew - many of them Matrix veterans - chose to build the movie's physics defying grands prix inside the far less inhibited confines of their computers instead.
But yes, that's a real monkey. Fans of the TV show already know him as Chim Chim, the pet of Speed's younger brother Spritle (Paulie Litt). Both often enjoy hiding in the trunk of Speed's car. Those rascals!
(Pictures and text from Rotten Tomatoes, EW.com and Wikipedia)
Here he Comes! Here comes Speed Racer! And here comes Emile Hirsch, playing the title character in Andy and Larry Wachowski's homage to the much-loved Japanimated TV series about a boy and his race car, the brothers' first film as writer-directors since 2003's Matrix Revolutions. "Larry and Andy said they always thought [the tv series] was one of the most visually interesting cartoons when they were growing up" said Hirsch. In these exclusive photos from the film (out May 9), it's easy to see the duo have splashed that feeling all over the big screen - in ultra-vivid, eye-burning technicolor.
Speed Racer was invented in the 1960s by a Japanese comic book artist named Tatsuo Yoshida, who named his manga and TV show Mach Go Go Go. An American TV syndicator bought the rights, Go was renamed Speed and the re-dubbed series debuted stateside in September of 1967, spending nearly two decades in reruns.
No, this isn't a real race track, and Speed's trusty Mach 5 isn't a real race car. The directors and their visual effects crew - many of them Matrix veterans - chose to build the movie's physics defying grands prix inside the far less inhibited confines of their computers instead.
But yes, that's a real monkey. Fans of the TV show already know him as Chim Chim, the pet of Speed's younger brother Spritle (Paulie Litt). Both often enjoy hiding in the trunk of Speed's car. Those rascals!
