I don’t know about the kids in our house, but the boys in The Garage are counting down the days until May 9, when Speed hits the big screen. For now, we’ll have to settle for this cool preview clip. Sure, there isn’t a shred of reality to any of it, but it still looks pretty cool. It’s still a shame that Christina Ricca had that dastardly surgery though, that red top would have looked killer with her natural equipment.

We’ve all been waiting more or less patiently for more news of the upcoming Speed Racer movie. Finally we have a trailer, but is it a movie or is it some sort of anime/real mashup? It surprises me that they’ve gone to the trouble of building mock up cars to show off, but all the racing scenes are cartoons. Either way, the kids are gonna love it and it’ll sell a ton of dvd copies. I might even make a rare visit to a theater for this one.

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Following the release of images of the full size Mach 5 a couple of days ago, the Reuter’s footage of a Speed racer press conference has surfaced on YouTube. Not only do we get some decent images of the real life car, but a little bit of chatter from the films’ stars. Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox and of course Christina Ricci all goober on about how wonderful it is to be involved in the project.

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When Speed Racer hits the big screen with his smokin’ hot girlfriend Trixie, played by the lovely and talented Miss Ricci, they’ll be hitting the drive in track in style. It looks like the custom builders have done a killer job turning the cartoon car into a real world machine. Los Jalops say may be plans afoot to sub in Keanu Reeves in place of Emile Hirsch. Dont ya think that Reeve’s kid days ended with Bill & Ted?

Visit the official Speed Racer site soon.

That’s right, the Beetle Juice Adams Family alumni is set to play Trixie in a new big screen adaptation of the classic cartoon Speed Racer. Our hero, Speed is to be played by Emile Hirsch.
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