by Sanem Z / Hot Movie News Crew
As all you know, Wachowski brothers are helming an feature adaptation of Speed Racer which is based on the 1960s hit anime. It seems, the name of Wachowskis is enough to make something popular again because Speed Racer' will come back to TV next year.
 Variety reports that Lionsgate will announce today plans for its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s toon Speed Racer. Nickelodeon's 24-hour cartoon channel, Nicktoons, is aboard to run the initial 26 episodes.
Accordin to the trade, in the new franchise, young Speed Racer enters a racing academy for the fastest kids on Earth, and discovers that he's the son of the legendary (and original series') Speed Racer. He also finds out in the first few episodes that he has a brother, the new Racer X, whom he never knew existed.
Speed Racer wows the school with his Mach 6 (an updated version of the original show's Mach 5), the most advanced vehicle in the universe, which doesn't run on gas. Speed and X team together to prevent villains from stealing the Mach 6 and to find out who's behind the mysterious disappearance of their father.
Other characters returning include original Speed Racer's younger brother Spritle, now headmaster of the racing academy. And chimpanzee Chim-Chim is now a mechanical robot.
Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed Racer in the dubbed American version of the original Speed Racer, is aboard to voice Spritle. |
