"Here he comes, here comes . . . "

[kstar]

Trailer here - embed is not working!
http://movies.aol.com//movie/speed-racer-2008/28066/video/trailer-no-1/2033773




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.

Pics and Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/06/video-first-em-speed-racer-em-trailer-and-high-res-pics/

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FYI.

Best,

Kurt

[Netspeed]

I was just about to post the link from Yahoo movies when I saw your thread. It looks like a combination of Tron Meets Rollerball.

[frogger]

So, did they cast Bush as Chim Chim?

[Don Plumley]

...he's a demon on wheels.

Yay!

[nostatic]

did Sandy Berger try to steal the plans for the mach 5 in his socks?

[Don Plumley]

Re-watched the clip - when Speed gets his helmet there appears to be a Heurer Monaco on the shelf. While Christina Ricci as Trixie is cool - Trixie was his sister in the original. BTW, the M on her shirt stands for "Michiko" which was my Mother's name. A nice write-up on the original cartoon here, and the move website with a higher res, wide format trailer here.