Matthew Fox talks Speed Racer

Over the weekend Sheila caught up with Matthew Fox who spilled the beans on Speed Racer during an interview he did with us. First off we asked him what it was like working with the Wachovski Brothers and what he knew or did not know about Speed Racer. He said quote;

I didn’t know Speed Racer at all. Again, getting back to that thing about how directors are very important, when the Wachowskis asked to meet with me, I guess they’re fans of Lost and they had an idea that I might be Racer X, and I went into the meeting never knowing anything about Speed Racer. I wanted to work with the Wachowskis. That meeting went great and I went home with a script, and I got the source material and watched a lot of Speed Racer, and the script blew me away and then I went after that role. I went back to L.A. and I really went after that role, I wanted it, and it took like six weeks. Working with the Wachowskis and the cast on this particular film, and what this film is going to be like, how much it’s a game-changer in my opinion, was an extraordinary experience. It was amazing.

They were very private and so you don’t really know much about them until you get to meet them and fall into their world, and they really are artists, they create a world and a big part of your job, particularly on a cartoon being turned into this whole world, is that you spend all of your time trying to figure out what that world that they’re creating in their two head is, and you’re trying to crawl in that and you’re trying to bring that image of X, and that’s what I was doing, X, and this guy and this voice and this presence and this silhouette and find that guy within the backdrop of what they’re doing, which was just amazing. It was a really, really great experience.

When asked about the rating it would seem that the movie will be headed towards a G rating but in my thinking its more likely it would get a PG13. He also hinted that the movie has a running time but didnt want to spill the beans on it. Matthew said quote;

They might be going for G as well. I’m not sure where that’s going to fall, but it’s certainly going to be in one of those two categories.  I think it does but I wouldn’t feel safe saying that.

Stay tuned for more Speed Racer goodness in the very near future. Look for Sheilas complete interview with Matthew later this week.