Yes, it’s true. The Wachowski Brothers, who started writing comics for Marvel before they went on to direct The Matrix trilogy, wrote and produced the V For Vendetta movie, publish Burlyman Comics (home of Doc Frankenstein and Shaolin Cowboy), and now making Speed Racer, exist no longer. Why? Well, one of them’s not a brother…
Interzone #211, a special Michael Moorock issue, will be published in a week, so TTA Press has posted its table of contents. Besides a new Moorcock story and novel excerpt, there are stories from Carlos Hernandez, Aliette de Bodard, and Grace Dugan, among other things. Ansible has put out its 240th issue, full of the…
First full weekend of summer arrives, so grab a frosty one and settle in for some lazy, hazy Big ComicMix Broadcast pop culture nuggets – like news of the next Speed Racer cartoon, what’s coming to the X-Men this summer and more on the process it took to combine Rosario Dawson, two major comics talents…
A pretty big outcome for the second day of the 2007 Licensing Show. Lots of movie pushes, of course with this being one of the biggest franchise summers in film history. Warner Bros was there in the same form as last year, showing off some of the new cars from their new flicks. We got…
Yeah okay, y’all are still talking about Barbarella, aren’t you? Sorry, the original had some cute ideas but gah, was it sexist! Talk to me when she’s properly dressed and Simon LeBon’s cast as Duran Duran. Now here’s what I’m craving — a bit of the ol’ Get Smart. USA today has a blurb about…
While waiting for Heroes to return on April 23, fans can now help Hana, the former Mossad agent. She’s looking for interested viewers to aid her attempts to stop Linderman’s still-unexplained plot. Details are at NBC.com. Meantime, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman have been named as Speed Racer’s parents. The Wachowski Berothers’ are set to…
Emile Hirsch, the relatively unknown actor, has been cast as Speed Racer in Joel Silver’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Japanese anime from the 1960s. Hirsch has already been seen in Alpha Dog and Lords of Dogtown and will next be seen in Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, opening in September. He told E! the…
Based on the 1960s anime, Speed Racer will be filmed in Germany at Studio Babelsberg, according to the Hollywood Reporter, by — the Wachowski brothers? This is a return to where they shot V For Vendetta. The Warner Bros. movie is currently in pre-production.
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