Go, Speed Racer, Go!


Casting Christopher Hitchens as Mr. Royalton is an inspired choice. He was excellent in V for Vendetta.

H/T to Oddjob, who got it from Sully, who got it from Peter Suderman, who notes that Speed Racer "perfectly...fits in with and builds on the Wachowskis' aesthetic, what with the brain-melting visual effects, the throbbing techno soundtrack, the comic-book eroticism, the blending of fetish-fashion and high-style designer Eurotrashiness, the stoic, super-powered hero intoning Zen bromides, the bad comic antics."

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