As a child, I used to run home from school to watch every episode. On long family vacations, this is the car I drove in my mind's eye as we lumbered across the flat boring plains of Illinois.
Before Spider Man, before the famous Millennium Falcon and X-Wing star fighter, before Star Trek and the USS Enterprise (well almost), there was the powerful Mach 5!
I love Speed Racer! I am a Speed Racer geek! There I said it. Now you know, and on May 9, 2008, I know where I will be -- watching the film version of the T.V. show, Speed Racer: Demon on Wheels!
Wow!
The brothers Wachowski, who produced V for Vendetta and the Matrix trilogy, are returning to the big screen to bring back Speed and the family (Pops, Spritle, Chim Chim and Trixie). If Racer X and his car Morning Star are in the movie, I.. will… die.
Why should Boomers have all the fun? Gen X had its cultural icons, too!
Go Speed Racer, Go!
Update: The picture of the Mach 5 is not a toy model, it the real deal!!!
While I loved Spider Man, Star Wars, and Star Trek, I have to admit never understanding the appeal of Speed Racer.
Ultraman, on the other hand was da man!
Boy, do I miss Ultraman.
Posted by: elliot | May 31, 2007 at 03:20 PM
Yes James you are a geek...
(I can't wait either, I wonder who they will cast as Trixie?!?)
Posted by: Fred | May 31, 2007 at 03:43 PM
Trixie will played by Christina Ricci (whoever that is....)
Posted by: James T. | May 31, 2007 at 05:01 PM
Christina Ricci was an actor in the sitcom The Adams Family. Remember?
Posted by: Diana | May 31, 2007 at 05:22 PM
FYI, Wachowski's aren't brothers anymore, they're brother and sister. Larry=Lana.
http://greensboring.com/pod/lana.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachowski_brothers
Posted by: Andy | May 31, 2007 at 07:00 PM
Uhhhhhhhhh. I think I knew that but chose to forget it.
Watch. I'll forget it again... Oh rats, you showed me the picture.
Sigh.
Posted by: James T. | May 31, 2007 at 07:26 PM
While I wasn't a big fan of the cartoon...I'll definitely watch a Wachowski treatment...should be interesting!
Posted by: Pete Fanning | June 01, 2007 at 11:57 AM
James T.,
In this 1% instance yes you are a geek, though I find in 99% of other instances you are not.
Peace out
Posted by: Coach Tim | June 01, 2007 at 02:06 PM
Thanks for the link, that brings back so many happy memories.
I loved that show when I was a kid.
Posted by: AndyB | June 01, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Yup. . You definitely are a geek!
Maybe Bernard will see the movie with you!
Posted by: Miriam | June 07, 2007 at 02:13 PM
Is there going to be scenes of Emil Hirsch frozen, in front of a seizure inducing backdrop going, "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?"
I would also like to see the parents of the boy go clothes shopping. I want to see the face of a woman who dresses her child the same as the family ape.
Posted by: Douglas Glatzel | June 09, 2007 at 01:31 AM