Spandau Belly wrote:Look, I'm not trying to be rude here, but would you guys honestly want a Speed Racer 2?
Actually...yes.
Speed Racer is the perfect property to turn into a series. I mean, it already comes from serialised fiction, so the potential is there.
Plus, the Wachowskis have already got ideas for a potential sequel. And let's not mention all the loose threads that were left hanging at the end of the first movie with Racer X et al.
I mean, I enjoyed Speed Racer. But I think they milked everything they could out of this world and setup. What could a sequel offer? Even more ridiculous races? Even wackier chimp antics? Even more brightly colored settings? I think I'd go blind.
Like I said, this thing has got massive serialisation potential.
However I wouldn't mind more movies looking and feeling like this because I think it captured the dinkyness of cartoons perfectly the same way that Rodriguez did with Sin City captured the ultra-noirist feel of Miller's comic books. I would look forward to more anime adaptations like Speed Racer, but not a sequel.
Earlier I suggested a Sailor Moon film, I think it would be pretty easy to do. Everybody likes movies about crime fighting hotties with killer bodies and I'm sure you could get a good cast of likeable and attractive young actresses to fill the parts.
I don't know a lot about anime, but as far as I know they haven't done a live action Pokemon or Dragonball film. I can't think of any other big series. Maybe this Cowboy Bebop thing that my buddy Travis is always talking about.
They're already doing
Astroboy and
Dragonball.
Sailor Moon is in the early stages of development.
Akira and
Ghost in the Shell are also at very early stages, too.
Pacino86845 wrote:I loved Speed Racer but I don't want a sequel... I sort of argued myself out of that one, but still I would've liked to see it make a good profit at least to let the Wachowskis and Joel Silver know that they did a good job (i.e. that the studio realizes they did a good job).
That most depressing part is the Wachowskis' future prospects. Studios are gonna think twice before fronting the cash, but as long as they've got Silver behind them, I think they'll be okay.
groovymatt wrote:Christ i can't believe there are so many people on here and IMDB comparing the film to Blade Runner. That's ridiculous.
Look, personally I loved the film, but that was despite a hell of a lot of problems. The idea that this is some modern day citizen kane/blade runner etc, some objectively fantastic filmic piece that's 'misunderstood' is naive and wishful thinking. And if anything i think it only adds fuel to the fire that critics of the film are throwing at it as it makes the fans of the film look foolish.
I'd be interested to hear what you think those problems are.
Nevertheless, I do think that
Speed Racer's art direction and production design is stellar. And I also think that the Wachowskis managed to balance the spectacle with a genuinely emotional story at the center of it.
It did what it set out to do. And it did it perfectly.
Zarles wrote:I don't think it's being compared to BR quality-wise. I think the comparisons come from that fact that it's a good movie that got overlooked because a lot of other more high-profile films came out at the same time.
That's definitely part of it.
Like
Blade Runner,
Speed Racer has a number of obvious visual ambitions to try and create a new type of visual storytelling. And while
Speed Racer obviously can't match
Blade Runner's thematic complexity and density (the Wachowskis have already visited that territory with
The Matrix), what
Speed Racer does have is an optimistic emotional core that is genuinely moving.
To simplify it, you could almost say that
Speed Racer and
Blade Runner are two sides of a stylistic coin - one is fun and light and optimistic, the other is dark and brooding and nihilistic.
Hehe...
Speed Racer is like
Blade Runner on "happy pills"
