“Go Speed Racer, go!”
Abrams' production company Bad Robot.
Speed Racerbegan as a Japanese manga series by Tatsuo Yoshida in 1966, and was originally titledMatch GoGoGo.
Emile Hirsch in the Wachowskis' 2008 film ‘Speed Racer’.Everett Collection
It was soon adapted into an anime series, which was Americanized intoSpeed Racer.
Still, the consensus remains far from unanimous.
As recently as 2018,two different EW critics still had wildly different assessments.
But now it’s time for a second chance.
Martinez has written forSnowpiercerandGet Shorty, two shows that were also based on movies.
