Matrix Man Joel Silver: Speed Racer Game Pilllages Film Assets
Wachowski brothers are loving it
8 May 2008
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Joel Silver, the producer behind The Matrix, has said that 'assets' from the Speed Racer movie have been incorporated into the game adaptation.
Speaking at a press conference to promote his upcoming, Wachowski brothers-directed, Speed Racer film, Silver said:
“A lot of the assets of the movie were incorporated into that game. I mean, these games are hugely successful, and these kids are seeing them and accepting a visual style that then can be translated to movies.
We’ve come a long way from Pong, so I think the games are getting more sophisticated, the technology is more advanced and every year there’s something that we’ve never seen before. And there’s a lot of blending of movies and gaming, and movies are coming from games, and games are coming from movies. It’s just an exciting time.
I mean, the boys [the Wachowski brothers] play everything. I mean, they like to play games, and I don’t know which one’s inspired which; I’ll ask them. But they sit around all day when they’re between takes sometimes playing games. And I think that’s part of their inspiration.”
We’ve come a long way from Pong, so I think the games are getting more sophisticated, the technology is more advanced and every year there’s something that we’ve never seen before. And there’s a lot of blending of movies and gaming, and movies are coming from games, and games are coming from movies. It’s just an exciting time.
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I mean, the boys [the Wachowski brothers] play everything. I mean, they like to play games, and I don’t know which one’s inspired which; I’ll ask them. But they sit around all day when they’re between takes sometimes playing games. And I think that’s part of their inspiration.”
A strong relationship between games and films? Well spotted, Joel!
With the white knuckle speed of the races featured in Speed Racer outside gaming and the crazy neon stylings of the film, this could be a good game. It is, however, a movie tie-in - frequently an indicator of a rushed game knocked out to ride the coat-tails of the cinema release. You'll be able to find out which way it swings tomorrow when it's released for the Wii and DS,
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Is this technically still correct?
Anyway, as long as the assets that get pillaged from the film are Christina Ricci's, I'm happy.
Videogamer? Me?
He sure likes to add verbal punctuation, possibly for emphasis that HE means this, and it's not something he's been told to say by his pubic-cyst.
But I don't see the clarity in "But they sit around all day when they’re between takes sometimes playing games."
Nor in, "And I think that’s part of their inspiration."
He THINKS these things that they SOMETIMES play all of the time might be PART of their inspiration. That leaves me unsure...
But once he gives it that special Joel Silver touch, and says, "I mean, I think these things that the boys sometimes play all of the time might possibly be part of their inspiration." THEN I'm convinced.
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I mean, the boys [the Wachowski brothers] play everything.
Is this technically still correct?
Anyway, as long as the assets that get pillaged from the film are Christina Ricci's, I'm happy.
Videogamer? Me?
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Posted by DoctorDee
config wrote:
He sure does have to add clarity to his comments a lot
He sure likes to add verbal punctuation, possibly for emphasis that HE means this, and it's not something he's been told to say by his pubic-cyst.
But I don't see the clarity in "But they sit around all day when they’re between takes sometimes playing games."
Nor in, "And I think that’s part of their inspiration."
He THINKS these things that they SOMETIMES play all of the time might be PART of their inspiration. That leaves me unsure...
But once he gives it that special Joel Silver touch, and says, "I mean, I think these things that the boys sometimes play all of the time might possibly be part of their inspiration." THEN I'm convinced.
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