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| 12:00 AM, 01-MAY-08 |
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Emile Hirsch, who plays the title role in the Wachowski brothers' upcoming anime adaptation Speed Racer, told SCI FI Wire that the filmmakers tried to follow the source material as closely as possible, right down to his character's wardrobe.
"It's a crazy world," Hirsch said in an interview while promoting the film. "Everyone was just able to get into it from that. The scarf, we had a lot of big debates about the scarf. We were like, 'God, should we, shouldn't we, should we?' Then in the end we were like, 'Oh, we gotta.' And I loved the scarf. More of the scarf in the second one, if we make one."
One of the appeals of the role for Hirsch was his fond memory of watching the original animated series when he was growing up.
"Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal," he said. "And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know. It was just one of those crazy shows that you watch on a sugar rush and just are like, 'Whoa.' The colors and the action and just the sense of adventure is immediately what always appeals to kids. Watching it now, ... it's kind of the retro cool and the kind of camp value that you really appreciate."
Hirsch also pointed out that it was the goal of the Wachowskis to create a film that was sophisticated and yet appealed to the same audience as the original.
"They definitely wanted to make an all-out kids' movie," he said. "I shouldn't say kids' movie, I should say family movie, because I watched it with a bunch of my friends who are all around 23, 24, 25, and they loved it. They didn't watch it and go, 'Oh, it's a cool kids' movie.' They were like, 'That was a cool movie.'" Speed Racer opens May 9. --Cindy White
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Tomas Alfredson's Lat den ratte komma in (Let the Right One In), about first love between a young boy and the vampire next door, won the feature prize as the Tribeca Film Festival named the winners of its seventh annual competition, Variety reported.
A teaser trailer has gone live for Vin Diesel's upcoming French SF movie Babylon A.D., which opens Aug. 27.
Defamer posted rumors about a temporary shutdown of the production of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones as the New Zealand director and his crew sort out creative differences.
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Eli Stone |
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Ghost Whisperer |
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New Amsterdam |
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Smallville |
1.4
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Reaper |
1.1
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Supernatural |
1.1
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Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 4/7/08 - 4/13/08. Fewer than 10 listings appear because fewer than 10 different SF&F; original series aired on broadcast networks this week. |
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