dear wachowski brothers: just give up

[rone]

... the green-screened studios of Berlin, Germany, where he just finished principal photography of next summer's big-budget production of "Speed Racer."
[...]
He describes "Speed Racer," a Wachowski brothers ("The Matrix") film based on the 1960s cartoon as "a really crazy, Andy Warhol-meets-'Blade Runner' kind of big colors, pop-art, really crazy special effects, very goofy movie."

Comments

Fun Wachowski Facts!

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

It's just "The Wachowskis" now. One of them completed gender-reassignment transition.

Re: Fun Wachowski Facts!

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

do you have a good reference for this?

Re: Fun Wachowski Facts!

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

Nope, I don't. It's listed in Wikipedia as a rumor.

Wired says this:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/matrix.html

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Is it a sure thing? The last time i looked at that, it was all sketchy and rumors and a bad picture.

[merovingian.livejournal.com]

This is not a sure thing.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Can Clutch Cargo: The Motion Picture (http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/kibology/clutch.html) be far behind?

[erikred.livejournal.com]

...actually, this sounds like a fair representation of the show I remember.

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

so let me get this straight: its gonna be really crazy?

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Andy Warhol-meets-'Blade Runner'

That's all I needed to hear. Two-word pre-cognitive review: Shit Racer.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to sit through a whole episode of 'Speed Racer' since I was nine. If they make a glitzed-up live-action version, as far as I'm concerned they'll be doing it a favor it doesn't deserve.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Do you mean to say that Speed Racer is an inviolable epic which the Wachowski brood are not fit to bring themselves to the level of understanding, much less interpreting, its genius?

Cause, dude, monkeys.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

From what i've read, they did a decent job with V for Vendetta. But there's not a lot to Speed Racer, which means that there's going to be some awful Hollywood plot shoehorned into the familiar milieu, much like the awful Transformers (yes, yes, "just turn your brain off and enjoy the special effects", whatever).