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VIDEO: First Speed Racer trailer and high-res pics!
by John Neff on Dec 6th 2007 at 9:59PM 
click above image for more high-res stills from the Speed Racer film
You may have seen a few tiny pics from the Wachowski brothers' upcoming Speed Racer live action film elsewhere on the web today. Well, our colleagues over at Cinematical gave us the hook up and provided Autoblog with the only high-res shots you'll find on the web, along with an exclusive look at the first trailer for the film (click here to view). It's so new, we literally didn't have a chance to watch it before publishing this post. If you're unfamiliar with the story of Speed Racer, we'll let Cinematical's Erik Davis explain:
Speed Racer stars Emile Hirsch as the aspiring race car driver Speed, who, with help from his family (Mom and Pops played by Susan Sarandon and John Goodman), his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) and a little chimp named Chim Chim, builds the unstoppable Mach 5 and teams with the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox) to win the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible in order to save his family's business and beat the evil Royalton at his own game.
Hope you enjoy the trailer after the jump and the high-res pics in the gallery below that are perfectly suitable for desktop wallpaper duty.
[Source: Cinematical]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Serge K. 10:12PM (12/06/2007)
+10000
I wish I was 9 years old again so that I could at least bear watching this trailer.
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Killenmedpirogen 10:15PM (12/06/2007)
This is a PS3 game trailer right?
right?
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Farris 10:29PM (12/06/2007)
You have an italics tag open somewhere. Just to let you know.
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Jay 10:41PM (12/06/2007)
I'm at work and can't see the streaming video, but if those pictures in the gallery are actual scenes from the movie and not just rendered promotional pics, then this movie is going to be absolutely horrible.
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Alex Nunez 11:19PM (12/06/2007)
I couldn't see it at first either. I had to restart Firefox. Dunno if that's what you're using, but if so, worth a try.
jamey 10:43PM (12/06/2007)
umm. It looks different, and that good be very good or very bad. time will tell.
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Will 10:43PM (12/06/2007)
Speed Racer FTW!
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Carlos 10:44PM (12/06/2007)
wow this looks terrible - why does Hollywood f-up every one of my childhood cartoons.
Do they not understand that they are now popular for a reason - they don't need to be re-invented for the big screen. This usually screws up the thing that made it so special the first time around.
Oh and Mach 6 WTF is that
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Eric Biran 10:55PM (12/06/2007)
IfoundSpeedRaceralmostunwatchableasakid,
butifthedialogismorepalitablehere, maybeI'llseeitsomeday--OOOH!
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Blake 9:04AM (12/08/2007)
HHAHAHAHA!
Arthur 11:05PM (12/06/2007)
The style is kinda how I imagined it would be. Reminds me a lot of the music video for Cassius - 1999.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jSeBalEQrhc
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WillDaThrill 11:09PM (12/06/2007)
I don't mean to offend anyone, but wasn't Speed Racer Asian? I mean, I know that they were drawn with westerners eyes, but I could have sworn he and the main characters were Asian. Ah, but I see you got Asians to play bad guys and flag wavers.
Don't even know why I'm complaining about it, I'm with most of you, this movie looks like it's going to suck anyway.
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WillDaThrill 11:12PM (12/06/2007)
Guess he's not a bad guy, ah well. Who's the fat kid? The kid wasn't fat! Guess he's going to loose a couple of races with that extra hundred plus pounds stowed away in that trunk huh?
Tull 11:22PM (12/06/2007)
Anything with John Goodman will be a solid piece of cinematography, that we all can be sure of.
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Iridium 11:26PM (12/06/2007)
ugh that looks horrible. It looks like cheesy Matrix effects, mixed with live action meant to look like a cartoon.
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stevo 11:29PM (12/06/2007)
Well, here's hoping that Trixie takes her top off.
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SPF 11:38PM (12/06/2007)
I'm with you.
Leo 11:35PM (12/06/2007)
I remember reading that the Mach 5 was based off the Chaparral 2, or something.
They could swap out the Mach 5 with the Chaparral 2J, that would be pretty sweet. Then swap all the other cars out with Can-Am racers, and set it in the mid 1960's, and swap out the main character with Jim Hall.
And it's on the nurburgring
yeah, that would be a pretty rad film.
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Ekow 11:37PM (12/06/2007)
Was that an email for "The worst Movie Ever"?
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esteva03 11:53PM (12/06/2007)
I think is going to be a cartoony action movie. I don't think the speed racer was really that good, but on a child's eyes (mine 20years ago) it was awesome. I wont take it seriously, but i think there can be some good to take out...maybe. As long as the racing scenes don't get too long with gadgets and funny graphics i think there can be a plot we can all relate to, because i am sure almost every car guy (when taking a brake from reality), really thinks about being a racecar driver. So they make a movie about it, just focus on how they deliver that need for speed we all have.
An "otaku moment": the cartoon is from Japan, and the name of the series actually was "Mach GO!GO!GO!", funny thing is that "GO" also means "5" in Japanese (actually is not that funny but you know what i mean...), so it would be like a double meaning to the tittle,something that cant be done with a "Mach 6" cause then it would just be like "Mach ROKU!ROkU!ROKU!"
There is a Robotech and a Thundercats movie coming out too...but those have nothing to do with cars, maybe Mechanical or Bio Engineering respectivelly...but not cars.
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