Comingsoon.net visited the Las Vegas ShoWest convention which featured an in-depth look into the upcoming Speed Racer movie. Comingsoon's Edward Douglas had a chance to visit with producer Joel Silver and stars Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, and Matthew Fox.There was also a viewing of a long, 4-minute clip of the movie which helps fill out the plot details of the movie as well as how nice the new full-focus camera work is going to look.
"Essentially, a rich mogul has gotten tired of Speed Racer winning every race and he offers a million dollar bounty to anyone who takes Speed Racer out in the next big race. With such danger all around him, Speed's Mach 5 is upgraded to the Mach 6 with lots of new devices added to help counter the assassins' weapons and the extended footage included a lot more flying and spinning cars as well as some of the weapons that Speed Racer will have to face on the track.
The extra footage included some more expositional dialogue between Racer X and Speed Racer that hints at their relationship. One of the reasons the film might look so strange at first is that it's very colorful, but also, the Wachowskis wanted to make a movie where everything was in focus rather than the eye having to determine where to focus its attention.
It's similar to the way Robert Rodriguez brought Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City to life, and it's also the closest that a live action movie can come to recreating the feel of a cartoon." (...more)
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