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Porter joins Speed Racer movie

by Adam Finley, posted Jun 4th 2007 4:41PM

mach5Following earlier casting news regarding the addition of Emile Hirsch (Speed), Christina Ricci (Trixie), Matthew Fox (Racer X), John Goodman and Susan Sarandon to the Wachowski brother's Speed Racer movie comes news that Scott Porter of Friday Night Lights has joined the film as Rex, Speed's brother.

A picture of the Mach 5 was recently released, and as many fans have pointed out, it looks almost identical to Speed's car from the cartoon series. The Wachowski's themselves have said they intend to make the movie family-friendly, and with a "retro future" look and feel.

The movie comes out May 9, 2008. It is currently filming in Canada.

UPDATE: Just to clarify, Porter will play Rex, who eventually becomes Racer X (played by Matthew Fox).

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July 09 2007 at 11:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
PORSCHE

That's what i was going to say too. Maybe M Fox plays racer X with the mask on and the other dude is rex with the mask off...or rex in flash back (how cool is it that Matt fox's character has a flasback) where we see Rex as a teenage racer right before he runs away from home.

June 05 2007 at 12:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dante

Uhm, Racer X is Speed's brother Rex.

June 04 2007 at 5:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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