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In case you're wondering what I mean, I found this bit of info...

SPEED RACER - Coming to theatres 2008!
Speed Racer (film)

Speed Racer is a 2008 live action film adaptation of the 1960s animated series Speed Racer. The film is to be directed by the Wachowski Brothers with a release date set for May 23, 2008. [1]
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Premise

Speed Racer "will follow the adventures of the young race car driver Speed in his quest for glory in his thundering gadget-laden vehicle, Mach 5. The movie will feature other characters from the show, including Speed's family and his mysterious archrival, Racer X". [2]

Production

In September 1992, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that it held the option to create a live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, in development at Silver Pictures. [3] In October 1994, singer Henry Rollins was offered the role of Racer X in the film. [4] In June 1995, actor Johnny Depp was cast into the lead role for Speed Racer, with production slated to begin the coming October, [5] with filming to take place in California and Arizona. [6] The following August, Depp requested time off to the studio for personal business, delaying production. [7] However, due to a high budget, [8] the same August, director Julien Temple, who was attached to direct Speed Racer, left the project. Depp, without a director, also departed from the project. The studio considered director Gus Van Sant as a replacement for Temple, [9] though it would not grant Sant writing privileges. [10] In December 1997, the studio briefly hired director Alfonso Cuarón for Speed Racer. [11] In the various incarnations of the project, screenwriters Marc Levin, Jennifer Flackett, J. J. Abrams, and Patrick Read Johnson had been hired to write scripts. [12]
In September 2000, Warner Bros. Pictures and producer Lauren Shuler Donner hired writer-director Hype Williams to take the helm of Speed Racer. [13] In October 2001, the studio hired screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Paul Scheuring for $1.2 million split between them to write a script for the film. [12] Eventually, without production going underway, the director and the writers left the project. In June 2004, actor Vince Vaughn spearheaded a revival of the project by presenting a take for the film that would develop the characters more strongly. Vaughn was cast as Racer X and was also attached to the project as an executive producer. [8]
In October 2006, directors Larry and Andy Wachowski were brought on board by the studio to write and direct Speed Racer. Producer Joel Silver, who had collaborated with the Wachowskis for V for Vendetta, explained that the brothers were hoping to reach a broader audience with a film that was not R-rated. Special effects supervisor John Gaeta, who won an Academy Award for Visual Effects for the Wachowskis' The Matrix, was hired to assist in making Speed Racer a live-action adaptation. Production was set to begin in summer 2007 in European locations for a summer 2008 release. [14] In November 2006, the release date for Speed Racer was set for May 23, 2008. [1] In December 2006, Silver announced the actual shooting location for Speed Racer to be in Germany. The producer also shared a computer-generated possibility: "I don’t know if we’ll even use any cars." [15]
In February 2007, the Wachowski brothers selected Babelsberg Studios in Germany to film Speed Racer. [16] Filming will commence on June 5, 2007 in Berlin. [17] High School Musical star, Zac Efron has a callback audition for the role as of March 11, 2007.

External link

* Speed Racer at the Internet Movie Database

Dear.... God.... no! I really hope that this would die like Sailor Moon and Dragon ball with all American casts, but it looks like this may happen.

I wonder if they'll pull a MWS productions and make Trixie (Michi) blond too.