Speed Racer (film)
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Directed by | The Wachowskis[a] |
Written by | The Wachowskis[a] |
Based on | Speed Racer by Tatsuo Yoshida |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | David Tattersall |
Edited by | |
Music by | Michael Giacchino |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 135 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $120 million[3] |
Box office | $93.9 million[3] |
Speed Racer is a 2008
A live-action Speed Racer film had been in development hell since 1992, having changed actors and filmmakers until in 2006 when producer Joel Silver and the Wachowskis collaborated to begin production on the film. Speed Racer was shot in and around Potsdam and Berlin from June to August 2007.
Speed Racer premiered on April 26, 2008, at the
Plot
Speed Racer is a young man whose life and love has always been automobile racing. His parents Pops and Mom run the independent Racer Motors, in which his brother Spritle and his pet chimp Chim Chim, his mechanic Sparky and his girlfriend Trixie are also involved. As a child, Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer, who was apparently killed while racing in the Casa Cristo 5000, a deadly cross-country rally race. Now embarking on his own career, Speed is quickly sweeping the racing world with his skill behind the wheel of his brother's Mach 5 and his own T-180 car the Mach 6, although primarily interested in the art of the race and the well-being of his family.
One day, E.P. Arnold Royalton, CEO of conglomerate Royalton Industries, offers Speed an astoundingly luxurious lifestyle in exchange for signing to race with him. Though tempted, Speed declines because of his father's distrust of power-hungry corporations. Angered, Royalton reveals that for many years, key races have been fixed by corporate interests, including himself, to gain profits. Royalton takes out his anger on Speed by having his drivers force Speed into a crash that destroys the Mach 6 and suing Racer Motors for intellectual property infringement. Speed gets an opportunity to retaliate through Inspector Detector, head of an intelligence agency's corporate crimes division. Racer Taejo Togokahn supposedly has evidence that could indict Royalton but will only offer it up if Speed and the notorious masked Racer X agree to race on his team in the upcoming Casa Cristo 5000, which could also substantially raise the stock price of his family's racing business, blocking a Royalton-arranged buyout. Speed agrees but keeps his decision secret from his family, and Detector's team makes several defensive modifications to the Mach 5 to assist Speed in the race.
After they drive together and work naturally as a team, Speed begins suspecting that Racer X is actually Rex in disguise. His family discovers that he has entered the race and agree to support him, though Pops is angry with him for not asking permission to race earlier. With his family and Trixie aiding him, Speed defeats many brutal racers, who were bribed by fixer Cruncher Block to stop him, and overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles to win the race, while Detector's team arrests Block. However, Taejo's arrangement is revealed to be a sham, as he was only interested in increasing the value of his family's company to profit from Royalton's buyout. Enraged, Speed hits the track that he used to drive with his brother, and confronts Racer X with his suspicion that he is Rex. Racer X removes his mask, revealing an unfamiliar face, and tells Speed that Rex is indeed dead, but advises Speed to not let racing change the way he is and figure out his own driving. Speed returns home and plans to leave, but Pops expresses his pride in Speed's actions, and that he was wrong to not let Speed enter the race since his own stubbornness drove Rex away, before finding out about the race-fixing conspiracy. Taejo's sister Horuko unexpectedly arrives and gives him Taejo's rejected automatic invitation to the upcoming Grand Prix. The Racer family bands together and builds a new Mach 6 in 32 hours.
Speed enters the Grand Prix with the help of Inspector Detector against great odds; Royalton has placed a $1,000,000 bounty on his head that the other drivers are eager to collect, and he is pitted against future Hall of Fame driver Jack "Cannonball" Taylor. Speed overcomes a slow start to catch up with Taylor, who uses a cheating device called a spearhook to latch the Mach 6 to his own car. Speed uses his jump jacks to expose the device to video cameras, causing Taylor to crash. Speed wins the race, having successfully exposed Royalton's crimes. While Racer X watches, a flashback montage reveals that he really is Rex, having faked his death and undergone plastic surgery to change his appearance as part of his plan to protect Speed and the sport of racing. He chooses not to reveal his identity to his family, declaring that he must live with his decision. The Racer family celebrates Speed's victory as Speed and Trixie kiss, Taejo testifies against Royalton and Block, and Royalton is sent to jail.
Cast
- Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer
- Nicholas Elia as young Speed Racer
- Christina Ricci as Trixie, Speed's girlfriend.
- Ariel Winter as young Trixie
- John Goodman as Pops Racer, Speed's father
- Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer, Speed's mother
- Matthew Fox as Racer X, a mysterious masked racer tasked with exposing the corruption undermining the WRL.
- Roger Allam as E.P. Arnold Royalton, the corrupt owner and CEO of Royalton Industries
- Paulie Litt as Spritle Racer, Speed's younger brother
- Benno Fürmann as Inspector Detector, head of the Corporate Crimes Division, Central Intelligence Bureau
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Mr. Musha, president and CEO of Musha Motors
- Rain as Taejo Togokahn, a rookie racer
- Richard Roundtree as Ben Burns, a race commentator and former racing champion
- Kick Gurry as Sparky, Speed's mechanic and best friend
- John Benfield as Cruncher Block, a professional race fixer and gang leader
- Christian Oliver as Snake Oiler, a shady racer who wears snakeskin racing clothes
- Ralph Herforth as Jack "Cannonball" Taylor, a superstar racer, WRL champion, 3 time Grand Prix winner, and future hall of famer sponsored by Royalton Industries
- Scott Porter as Rex Racer, Speed Racer's older brother and idol presumed to have been killed in a race
- Yu Nan as Horuko Togokahn, Taejo Togokhan's sister
- Nayo K. Wallace as Minx, a scientist and Racer X's girlfriend
- Melvil Poupaud as Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones, a race commentator
- Ramon Tikaram as Casa Christo Announcer
- Ben Miles as Cass Jones
- Peter Fernandez as Local Announcer
- Cosma Shiva Hagen as Gennie
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Gray Ghost, a French racer of Eccran Establishment tasked with eliminating Speed
- Karl Yune as Taejo Body Guard
- Joon Park as Kakkoi Teppodama, a Japanese racer for Musha Motors tasked with taking out Speed at the Grand Prix for a million dollars. He is credited as "Yakuza Driver" in the end credits.
- Togo Igawa as Tetsua Togokahn, Taejo and Horuko's father, and a corporate rival to both Royalton and Musha
- Chim Chim, Spritle's pet chimpanzee and best friend is portrayed by two chimpanzees: "Kenzie" and "Willy".[4]
Series original English dubbing artists
Production
Development
In September 1992, Joe Pytka announced that Warner Bros. held the option to create a live-action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime and manga series Speed Racer, in development at Silver Pictures.[5] In October 1994, singer Henry Rollins was offered the role of Racer X.[6] In June 1995, Johnny Depp was cast into the lead role for Speed Racer, with production slated to begin the coming October,[7] with filming to take place in California and Arizona.[8] The following August, Depp requested time off to the studio for personal business, delaying production.[9] However, due to an overly high budget,[10] the same August, director Julien Temple left the project. Depp, without a director, also departed from the project. The studio considered director Gus Van Sant as a replacement for Temple,[11] though it would not grant writing privileges to Van Sant.[12] In December 1997, the studio briefly hired Alfonso Cuarón as director.[13] 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.[14]
In September 2000, Warner Bros. and producer Lauren Shuler Donner hired music video director Hype Williams to take the helm of the project.[15] 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.[14] Eventually, without production getting under way, the director and the writers left the project. In June 2004, 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.[10] With production never becoming active, Vaughn was eventually detached from the project.[16]
Pre-production
In October 2006,
Producer Joel Silver described Speed Racer as a family film in line with the Wachowskis' goal to reach a wider audience.[20] However, contrary to the apparent mainstream appeal of the project, the directors decided to take the source material in an avant-garde direction, declaring: "Okay, we are going to assault every single modern aesthetic with this film."[17] According to Lana, representatives of Warner Bros. were initially "gleeful" that the directors chose to take on "a known entity that seemed like a family movie for kids," but when executives reviewed the work-in-progress, "they were like, 'Oh my god. Are you insane? What are you doing? This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.' And we're like, 'Yes, that's the reason we're making it.'"[21] For the Wachowskis, the project presented a unique opportunity to experiment with techniques of postmodernist cinema, as they believed the film's younger target audience would be more receptive to radical experimentalism than adults. In a 2012 interview, Lana said:
The whole impetus for Speed Racer came out of the fact that we are visually-thinking people. We go to art galleries and art museums all the time. We go into the Art Institute [of Chicago] and every room there, there are paintings that look completely and utterly different from the other rooms. But in cinema, everything looks the same. And it's a really aggressive straight-jacket, aesthetically. We started talking about cubism, for instance, and we started talking about could you make a cubist film? And we realized that if you try to make a cubist film for adults, you will end up like Picasso, running from the angry mob when he first showed Guernica. They wanted to kill him. Literally. It's because adults... they reject change, and an aesthetic change is too aggressive a death for them. Every generation experiences aesthetic death, and when you really assault an aesthetic, people freak out. But we said that kids are okay with aesthetic change.[17]
While planning out the film's pace and structure, the siblings embraced techniques of nonlinear narrative—such as stream-of-consciousness storytelling—from modernist novels like Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce and Purple America (1997) by Rick Moody, seeking to play with the conventions of cinematic language as those authors had done with prose. They deemphasized traditional cuts in favor of more fluid transitions, with the intention that scenes would "feel like this experiential flowing thing that was transcending normal simple linear narrative."[17] The film's bright, colorful, smooth look is indebted to pop art, including paintings by Roy Lichtenstein[21] and art photography by Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle, and Jill Greenberg.[22] To achieve the desired visual aesthetic, Gaeta and effects supervisor Dan Glass developed a method of layering photographic and computer-generated imagery that they described as "poptimistic photo-anime", taking inspiration from animated films like The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Tron (1982), Akira (1988), and Tarzan (1999).[22]
Casting
While Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron were originally considered for the role of Speed Racer, Emile Hirsch eventually won the role.[23][24] When he prepared for the role, Hirsch watched every Speed Racer episode and visited Charlotte Motor Speedway (known as Lowe's Motor Speedway at the time), where he met with driver Jimmie Johnson.[25] Elisha Cuthbert, Kate Mara and Rose McGowan were originally considered for the role of Trixie, the role was eventually given to Christina Ricci.[23][24] Before Matthew Fox was cast as Racer X, Henry Rollins was originally considered for the role.[6] Keanu Reeves was offered the role of Racer X, but he declined.[26][27]
Filming
In February 2007, the Wachowskis selected
Music
In 2007, the Wachowskis purchased the rights to the sound effects and theme song of the television series for use in the film.[35] The film's soundtrack was composed by Michael Giacchino, performed by Hollywood Studio Symphony and released by Varèse Sarabande.[37][38] It was used along with orchestral score; Warner Bros. added an updated version of the "Go Speed Racer Go" theme song, which plays during the end credits, and was produced by Ali Dee Theodore and Jason Gleed, and performed by Ali Dee and the Deekompressors.[38] Razor & Tie released this version as an extended play on January 1, 2008, to promote the film's release, and as a single released along with film's soundtrack on May 6, 2008.[38][39][40]
Animal cruelty incident
During its production,
Release
Marketing
The Los Angeles Times estimated that nearly 5,000 Speed Racer film-related products were licensed by Warner Bros.[43] The film was backed by multiple promotional partners with over $80 million in marketing support. The partners include General Mills, McDonald's, Target, Topps, Esurance, Mattel, Lego and Petrobras. The film also received support from companies outside of America in an attempt to attract international audiences. With early support before the film's release, the studio provided 3D computer models of the Speed Racer vehicle Mach 5 to the companies so they could accurately render the vehicle in their merchandise.[44]
Mattel produced toys based on the film through several divisions.
Warner Bros., through its
Home media
Reception
Box office
Speed Racer’s world premiere took place on April 26, 2008 during a
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval percentage of 42% based on 218 reviews and an average rating of 5.20 out of 10. The critics consensus states: "Overloaded with headache-inducing special effects, Speed Racer finds the Wachowskis focused on visual thrills at the expense of a coherent storyline."[64] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 37 out of 100 based on 37 critic reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable".[65] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[66]
Writing for
Roger Allam's portrayal of Arnold Royalton was praised; Variety said he made "a delicious love-to-hate-him villain".[68] Time magazine critic Richard Corliss claimed that Allam was "channeling Brit pundit Christopher Hitchens as his most pompestuous";[80] similar comparisons were made by several other reviewers.[81][82][71]
Retrospective reappraisal
About the movie's reception, Christina Ricci said: "I think I was aware of the disconnect that was going on at the time, and I was sort of watching and… Not that I expected that, but I knew that there would be problems, because I knew that people were expecting something very different than what was actually going to be delivered."[83]
The film has appeared periodically on lists of underrated films. Speed Racer was elected the third most underrated film of the 2000s by Den of Geek's N.P. Horton, which called it "a game-changing film which redefined and reconceptualised the film form as we know it."[84] Nick Hyman, writing for Metacritic, included the film on its list of "movies that critics got wrong" calling it "a cult classic in the making".[85] It was described as "nearly unmatched [...] insofar as action/adventure/family films go" by Alejandro Stepenberg from JoBlo.com,[86] while Slate's Chris Wade named it "an underrated masterpiece," stating that the Wachowskis "made a brilliant visual cartoon that dares to ask that you take it seriously."[87]
Accolades
Speed Racer was nominated at the
Possible sequel
Variety discussed a possible sequel, saying it could happen if Speed Racer had a good box office performance.[44] In 2008, the possibility was contemplated by the Wachowskis when Rain asked them why his character is so happy for Speed winning, and they replied it could be explained in the next film. Rain said he was hired for three years, while noting that is not a guarantee.[97] Ricci also considered it a possibility; she stated "When we [the cast] were all leaving, we were like 'write the sequel!' 'We want to come back'. And they [the Wachowskis] were like, 'I know. I know. We're going to. Don't worry'", adding she would like more action scenes for her character.[98] Producer Silver said that the Wachowskis "have a great story idea for a sequel" but that it is "a great idea for a sequel if it makes sense to make it".[99] In 2018, Hirsch stated in a tweet that a sequel script has been written.[100]
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External links
- Official website
- Speed Racer at IMDb
- Speed Racer at the TCM Movie Database
- Speed Racer at AllMovie