Speed Racer spins out in the final stretch. Photograhers used ultra-high-resolution digital still cameras to capture images in Italy, Morocco, Austria, Turkey and California's Death Valley to create the Speed Racer locations. Speed Racer (played by Emile Hirsche) squints his way through the Zunubian Desert. Oscar-winning tech genius John Gaeta ( The Matrix), visual effects co-supervisor Dan Glass ( The Matrix Reloaded) and V for Vendetta director James McTeigue orchestrated the action for Wachowski and Wachowski. Sidestepping live-action "realism," the brothers pay homage to Speed Racer's cartoon pedigree by fusing human actors and CGI backgrounds into a candy-colored universe stitched together from exotic locales, retro-kitsch Americana, bee-hive-catapulting Viking cars and anime-inspired cities of the future.Įmile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox are convincing enough as Speed, girlfriend Trixie and Racer X, but it's the film's four whirly-dizzy race sequences that stake out new turf in the visual effects arena. The movie, which hits theaters May 9, stakes a claim as the most technically accomplished silver-screen spectacle since, well, the Wachowskis' Matrix pictures. The Wachowski brothers' final cut of Speed Racer popped, rumbled and roared on screen when it was unveiled Wednesday on the Warner Bros.
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