Sidhe working with Wachowskis

By Robert Purchese Published 4 September, 2007

On Speed Racer movie tie-in.

The interactive arm of Warner Bros. has announced plans to publish a game based on upcoming film Speed Racer.

Gripshift developer Sidhe Interactive will be making it for Wii and PS2, with an as-yet unnamed team creating it on DS. The two Nintendo games are expected alongside the film next summer, with the PS2 version following when the DVD eventually hits shelves.

The film is being made by Matrix masterminds the Wachowski brothers, who will be lending their action panache to the games' development.

It's all based around an old 1960s Japanese animated series that follows a chap called Speed Racer as he tries to win a cross-country rally called The Crucible - the same one that claimed the life of his older brother. Sob.

Emile Hirsch is starring in the big-screen version, alongside Susan Sarandon, John Goodman and Christina Ricci. And we're told to expect lots of fancy visuals as futuristic cars hit unheard-of speeds - they're even calling the new style "car-fu". Silly old them.

"Speed Racer is an exceptionally creative property and teamed with the Wachowski brothers' vision it makes for action-packed racing gameplay," said Samantha Ryan, big cheese at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

"The game will capture the intensity of the racing in the film to give gamers and movie fans a chance to take the wheel after the experience of the film."

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  • Darkedge #1 5 years ago

    not holding much hope for the film and certainly not for the game after their last involvement with the matrix games :s
    That and the fact that the Wachowski's are one trick ponies and very overrated (maybe less since the disasters of the Matrix sequels)

  • espadachin #2 5 years ago

    did i read correctly that they are now just 'the Wachowskis' and not 'the Wachowski brothers' as 'larry' is now 'lana'??
    or was it booshit, allovit?

  • SBfistfun #3 5 years ago

    I would rather felch a hippo with food poisoning than pay to see or play this.

  • Kami #4 5 years ago

    "did i read correctly that they are now just 'the Wachowskis' and not 'the Wachowski brothers' as 'larry' is now 'lana'??
    or was it booshit, allovit?"

    It's not entirely booshit.

    Allegedly he split from his wife a few years ago due to his increasingly high-profile transexuality (I believe he turned up at the premiere of the last Matrix film in drag. Hey, if I'd been involved in that mess of a film, I may have considered drag as well!) and an affair with a dominatrix. This was probably where the rumour began. It's flared up with Speed Racer as "Lana" now appears more girly, and there is talk that Larry is now fully "Lana" and all that it entails. We won't know until after the film is released though as there is concern if it "comes out", it may hurt the films General Audience rating.

    Though to be fair, it's his/her business really. It's not like they wake up one day and decide they're going to change their sex because they're bored, and no surgeon would do it without extensive psychological profiling and years of hormone therapy (I watch too many medical shows). If Larry is Lana, then it will have taken many years of serious thought to get to this point.

    I think my thought in the end is... does it really matter if Larry is Lana? They're still going to be remembered for The Matrix and they still have far more money and clout in the industry than most people could dream of, so guy, gal, both - who cares? Let's just see a good movie please.

  • secombe #5 5 years ago

    This is Trixie, Calling the Mach 5!

    Damn I love that show (got the Ltd Ed Tire DVD when it came out!), her's hoping they at least make a half decent film/game.