Nobody has taken Speed Racer and its failure more to heart than the Wachowskis themselves. Their next feature, a 2012 retelling of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, was financed largely in Europe. Released in May 2008, the same summer as Marvel’s Iron Man and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, it stalled on the starter grid, earning just $90 million despite a huge (and increasingly desperate) marking campaign.Īnd it permanently tarnished the Wachowskis in Hollywood. Proof of their feet of clay was smeared all over this $120 million adaptation of an obscure-ish manga featuring such odds ’n’ sods stars as Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and a chimpanzee named Kenny. making Matrix movies), they were less accomplished at others. But the real lesson of Speed Racer was that, if the Wachowskis were good at some things (i.e. There have even been claims, in the more excitable corners of YouTube, that it helped advance the language of cinema. It shot straight off the track, too, creating a smoking wreckage from which the Wachowskis have arguably yet to recover.Īs is the way with extravagantly awful films, Speed Racer has since built a modest cult following. The result was 2008’s Speed Racer, a brain-bursting caper so infused with brightness that sitting through all 130 minutes was akin to having a party-pack of Skittles injected into your eyeballs. So when it was time for the dystopian siblings to move on from Neo and Trinity, and red pills and blue pills, their first step was to bring in the decorators and swap out the Matrix’s distinctive blend of noirish cool and muggy emerald colours. The Wachowskis’ original Matrix trilogy was black and white and green all over.
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