Apple creating ‘Speed Racer’ live-action collection with JJ Abrams

By PTI

LOS ANGELES:  A live-action collection primarily based on the favored manga and animated present “Speed Racer” is within the works at Apple.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, filmmaker JJ Abrams will function an government producer on the challenge. Though the small print of the collection are scarce in the intervening time, the present is written by Hiram Martinez and Ron Fitzgerald, who can even function co-showrunners.

Abrams will government produce below his Bad Robot banner. Warner Bros Television is the studio the place Bad Robot is below an general deal. “Speed Racer” was first launched in Japan as a manga collection titled “Mach GoGoGo” by Tatsuo Yoshida in 1966.

It was later tailored into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, which aired on Japan’s Fuji TV in addition to within the US. The story follows the journey of auto racer Speed Racer and his souped-up automobile, the Mach 5.

His workforce consists of his father and automobile builder Pops Racer, his little brother Spritle and his pet chimpanzee Chim-Chim, and Speed’s girlfriend Trixie.

Speed additionally steadily crosses paths with the mysterious Racer X, who’s secretly Speed’s older brother Rex Racer.

The collection can be the second live-action challenge primarily based on the enduring Japanese character. Filmmakers Lily and Lana Wachowski had written and directed a 2008 movie, that includes Emile Hirsch within the title function. The movie was a significant field workplace disappointment and acquired largely adverse evaluations from the critics.