Although this project has been bumming around for a least a decade now (back in the day Johnny Depp was attached to play Speed), it now appears that it will hit screens in 2008. Just like The Transformers. What a country.
Filming is now set, reportedly, to begin this spring in Germany, with the film being written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers (!!). Hopefully they view this as a chance to not make a movie that’s About Something. (Or maybe Spridel (Dicky Cheney) and Chim-Chim’s (Bush) getting into trouble after ill-advisedly climbing into the trunk of the Mach Five will be used as a canny metaphore for the War on Terror.)
No casting on Speed yet, but Vince Vaughn is purportedly producing the film, and may play Racer X (who, in an amazing twist, is secretly Rex Racer…oops, sorry). Frankly, I don’t care. Just don’t screw up the friggin’ car!! And please, no more CGI than is strictly necessary!!
The movie was penciled in for a May 23 release, but that’s now where the new Indiana Jones movie is supposed to go, so I imagine that will change.
