The interesting thing about Speed Racer 2008 being an adaptation is that the fact that the Wachowski sisters are huge weebs probably posed more of a barrier for them than if someone else got hired to make a movie from that license Like, weebs specifically hate Speed Racer
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They sort of lampshade this, that the movie version of Speed Racer is a more realistic racecar driver whose career mostly revolves around legit track races and the rally race is this big unorthodox scary challenge he undertakes
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(One where all the wacky shit the cartoon got up to with the cars having actual weapons and the drivers openly trying to kill each other gets lampshaded, the Casa Cristo is this glamorous outlaw event)
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Also notably the only part where Speed dresses in the iconic Speed Racer outfit
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