Speed Racer (2008)

Directors:

Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Writers (WGA):

Andy Wachowski (written by) &
Larry Wachowski (written by) ...
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Release Date:

9 May 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Family | Sport

Tagline:

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Plot:

The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible...

Plot Keywords:

Brother Brother Relationship | Mother Son Relationship | Wrench | Private Jet | Car Jump

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Cast

Emile Hirsch	...	Speed
Nicholas Elia	...	Young Speed
Christina Ricci	...	Trixie
John Goodman	...	Pops
Melissa Holroyd	...	Speed's Teacher
Susan Sarandon	...	Mom
Matthew Fox	...	Racer X
Ariel Winter	...	Young Trixie
Scott Porter	...	Rex
Benno Fürmann	...	Inspector Detector
Gian Ganziano	...	Everyman Announcer
Peter Fernandez	...	Local Announcer
Harvey Friedman	...	Harold Ledermann Announcer
Richard Roundtree	...	Ben Burns
Sadao Ueda	...	Japanese Announcer
Valery Tscheplanowa	...	Russian Announcer
Sami Loris	...	Italian Announcer
Olivier Marlo	...	French Announcer
Sean McDonagh	...	Celtic Announcer
Kick Gurry	...	Sparky
Christian Oliver	...	Snake Oiler
Vinzenz Kiefer	...	Crew Chief / Sempre Fi-Ber Driver
Mark Zak	...	Blackjack Benelli
Paulie Litt	...	Spritle
Willy	...	Chim Chim
Kenzie	...	Chim Chim
Julia Joyce	...	Blonde Pack Leader
Clayton Nemrow	...	Race Announcer
Ricky Watson	...	Race Commentator
Brandon Robinson	...	Big Mouth
L. Trey Wilson	...	Press Man
Nayo Wallace	...	Minx (as Nayo K. Wallace)
Roger Allam	...	Royalton
Lauren Blake	...	Flight Attendant
Cosma Shiva Hagen	...	Gennie
Ralph Herforth	...	Cannonball Taylor
Rain	...	Taejo Togokhan
Waldemar Kobus	...	Vinny – Cruncher Thug
John Benfield	...	Cruncher Block
Max Hopp	...	Cruncher Thug
Julie T. Wallace	...	Truck Driver
Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Mr. Musha
Matthias Redlhammer	...	Marvin the Cleaning Man
Eckehard Hoffmann	...	Joel Goldman (Ecki Hoffman)
Stephen Marcus	...	Security Goon
Art LaFleur	...	Fuji Announcer #1
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo	...	Fuji Announcer #2
Yu Nan	...	Horuko
Moritz Bleibtreu	...	Grey Ghost
Paul Sirr	...	Dour Face
Ramon Tikaram	...	Casa Christo Announcer
Melvil Poupaud	...	Johnny 'Goodboy' Jones
Kady Taylor	...	Queen of Casa Christo
Junior Sone Enang	...	Shark Driver
Jana Pallaske	...	Delila
Bojidara Maximova	...	Flying Fox (as Dari Maximova)
Werner Daehn	...	Sempre Fi-Ber Leader
Komi Togbonou	...	Thor-azine Leader
Leila Rozario	...	Hydro-cell Driver
Steven Wilson	...	C.I.B. Security Man
Karl Yune	...	Taejo Body Guard
Togo Igawa	...	Mr. Togokahn
Jonathan Kinsler	...	Fuji Reporter #1
Anatole Taubman	...	Fuji Reporter #2
Ben Miles	...	Cass Jones
Frank Witter	...	Security Official
Megan Gay	...	Senior Race Official
Corinne Orr	...	Grand Prix Female Announder
Joe Mazza	...	Nitro
Joon Park	...	Yakuza Driver
Ludmilla Ismailow	...	Denise
Milka Duno	...	Gearbox
Amira Osman	...	Count Down Tower Woman
Ashley Walters	...	Prince Kabala
Jens Neuhaus	...	German Announcer
Sesede Terziyan	...	Turkish Announcer
Ill-Young Kim	...	Korean Announcer
Yuriri Naka	...	Japanese Announcer
Óscar O. Sánchez	...	Spanish Announcer
Yu Fang	...	Chinese Announcer
Narges Rashidi	...	Persian Announcer
Andrés Cantor	...	Grand Prix Announcer

Directed by
Andy Wachowski		(as The Wachowski Brothers)
Larry Wachowski		(as The Wachowski Brothers)

Writing credits (WGA)
Andy Wachowski		(written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers) &
Larry Wachowski		(written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers)
Tatsuo Yoshida		(animated series "Speed Racer")

Produced by
Bruce Berman	....	executive producer
Grant Hill	....	producer
Michael Lambert	....	executive producer
Roberto Malerba	....	co-producer
Henning Molfenter	....	co-producer
David Lane Seltzer	....	executive producer
Joel Silver	....	producer
Andy Wachowski	....	producer
Larry Wachowski	....	producer
Charlie Woebcken	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Michael Giacchino

Cinematography by
David Tattersall

Film Editing by
Roger Barton
Zach Staenberg

Casting by
Anja Dihrberg
Lora Kennedy
Lucinda Syson

Production Design by
Owen Paterson

Art Direction by
Hugh Bateup		(supervising art director)
Marco Bittner Rosser
Stephan O. Gessler
Sebastian T. Krawinkel		(senior art director)
Anja Müller

Set Decoration by
Peter Walpole

Costume Design by
Kym Barrett

Makeup Department
Stephanie A. Fowler	....	key makeup artist
Paul Gooch	....	hair stylist
Paul Gooch	....	makeup artist
Tanya Lodge	....	makeup artist
Mareike Maya Mietke	....	makeup artist
Paula Price	....	hair stylist
Paula Price	....	makeup artist
Petra Schaumann	....	makeup artist
Valeska Schitthelm	....	makeup artist
Jeremy Woodhead	....	hair designer
Jeremy Woodhead	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Bill Draper	....	executive in charge of production
Miki Emmrich	....	production manager: second unit
Kelly Helstrom	....	production supervisor
Marcus Loges	....	production manager
Roberto Malerba	....	unit production manager
Anja Wedell	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tobias Asam	....	assistant director: element unit
William Dodds	....	co-second assistant director
Emma Horton	....	key second assistant director
Scott Kirby	....	first assistant director: second unit
Martin Krauka	....	first assistant director: element unit
Carly Lewisohn	....	co-third assistant director
Andrew McEwan	....	second assistant director: element unit
Terry Needham	....	first assistant director
Jenny Nolan	....	second second assistant director: Los Angeles chimp rehearsals
Timothy R. Price	....	key second assistant director: additional photography
Kim Whittaker	....	co-second assistant director

Art Department
Greg Bartkus	....	concept supervisor
Stefan Pepe Baumgärtner	....	stand-by props assistant
Katharina Birkenfeld	....	set decoration buyer
Joshua Black	....	supervisor painter
Henning Brehm	....	graphic designer
Beverley Butcher	....	production buyer
J. André Chaintreuil	....	conceptual set designer
Sabine Engelberg	....	draughtsperson
Andy Evans	....	construction manager
Alex Friedrich	....	model maker
Simone Fust	....	set decorating coordinator
Gary Gleeson	....	head painter
Dierk Grahlow	....	construction manager
Gordon Grant	....	assistant to set decorator
Kevin Harris	....	model & propmaker
Leif Hendel	....	art department assistant
George Hull	....	conceptual designer
Patrick Janicke	....	conceptual artist
Jeff Julian	....	concept designer
Roxy Konrad	....	art department coordinator
Grit Kühnel	....	set dresser
Tani Kunitake	....	storyboard artist
Alejandro Lecuna	....	graphic designer: cars
Jens Löckmann	....	assistant art director: cars
Jens Löckmann	....	construction liaison
Swen Luppino	....	assistant model maker
Warren Manser	....	concept artist
Johanna Muench	....	draftsperson
Niels Müller	....	model maker
Ed Natividad	....	conceptual designer
Mitch Niclas	....	chargehand stand-by propman
Mitch Niclas	....	chargehand stand-by propman: Brothers
Cornelia Ott	....	assistant art director
Benjamin Palmer	....	model & propmaker
Manuel Plank-Jorge	....	storyboard artist
Peter Popken	....	conceptual artist
Stephanie Rass	....	junior draftsperson
Judith Rosskoth	....	assistant set decorator
David Scheunemann	....	assistant art director
Frank Schlegel	....	supervising model maker
Tobias Schroeter	....	model maker
Eric Segol	....	graphic artist
Steve Skroce	....	storyboard artist
Vladimir Spasojevic	....	conceptual designer
Stefan Speth	....	assistant art director
Jason Torbett	....	stand-by prop man
Jacob von Dohnanyi	....	model maker
Simon Weisse	....	senior model maker
Dean Wolcott	....	conceptual designer

Sound Department
Felix Andriessens	....	sound mixer
Scott Curtis	....	supervising foley editor
Dane A. Davis	....	sound designer
Dane A. Davis	....	supervising sound editor
William R. Dean	....	co-supervising sound editor
Benjamin Dunker	....	sound assistant
Stephanie Flack	....	adr & dialogue supervisor
Raoul Grass	....	sound mixer: second unit
Rick Kline	....	sound re-recording mixer
Alyson Dee Moore	....	foley artist
Jason Oliver	....	sound recordist
Barry O'Sullivan	....	boom operator
Tom Ozanich	....	sound effects editor
John A. Pagano	....	assistant sound editor
Troy Porter	....	adr mixer
Matthias Richter	....	sound mixer: second unit
John Roesch	....	foley artist
Ivan Sharrock	....	production sound mixer
Bryan O. Watkins	....	sound effects editor
Christian Wegner	....	sound mixer
David Werntz	....	sound effects editor
David A. Whittaker	....	sound effects editor

Special Effects by
Nicola Di Chio	....	special effects senior technician
Norman Ernst	....	special effects foreman
Thomas Friedrich	....	special effects buyer/assistant
Rolf Hanke	....	special effects project manager
Till Hertrich	....	special effects senior technician
Uli Nefzer	....	special effects supervisor
Clay Pinney	....	special effects supervisor: additional photography, USA
Joshua Pinney	....	special effects unit supervisor: additional photography, USA
Thomas Rasada	....	special effects technician: additional photography, USA
Thomas Thiele	....	special effects senior technician
Carsten Woithe	....	previsualization artist

Visual Effects by
Chadi Abo	....	visual effects supervisor
Gary Abrahamian	....	animation lead: CIS Hollywood
Laide Agunbiade	....	senior lighting technical director
Fahed Alhabib	....	visual effects assistant
Herve Anceau	....	visual effects
Alina Anon	....	lead matte painter
Austen Armus	....	digital production administrator
Nicholas Barnes	....	lead environment surfacing
Nicholas Barnes	....	lead texture artist
Lyndon Barrois	....	previz animator
Bron Barry	....	assistant visual effects coordinator
Kelly Barschig	....	recruiter: SPI
Jenny Basen	....	visual effects coordinator: Rising Sun Pictures
Geoffrey E. Baumann	....	on-set survey and data integration: Digital Domain
Romain Bavent	....	digital artist: BUF
Scott E. Baxter	....	digital effects artist
Melissa Beery	....	2D coordinator
Kevin Bell	....	digital compositor
Matthew E. Bell	....	digital artist
Jordan Benwick	....	compositor
Niki Bern	....	digital compositor
Stacy Bissell	....	visual effects production assistant: ILM
David Bleich	....	matte painter
Jayni Borgaro	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
Dan Bornstein	....	visual effects technical director: Evil Eye Pictures
Christian Boudman	....	digital compositor
Brent M. Bowen	....	visual effects
John Bozzalla	....	manager of production services
Jeremy Bradley	....	assistant visual effects editor
David M. Breaux Jr.	....	animator: Digital Domain
Margaret Bright-Ryan	....	digital artist
Jill Brooks	....	visual effects producer: ILM
Dan Browne	....	systems administrator: Evil Eye Pictures
Randy Brown	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
Tom Bruno Jr.	....	character animator: Digital Domain
Chad Buehler	....	digital compositor
Sirius Buisson	....	digital effects artist: BUF
Cyntia Büll	....	digital compositor
Thibault Bunoust	....	digital effects artist
Elika Burns	....	roto/paint artist: CIS Hollywood
Jeremy Burns	....	digital compositor
Howard Cabalfin	....	digital artist: Digital Domain
A.J. Calomay	....	assistant digital assets manager
D. Walt Cameron	....	digital compositor
Andrea Caretta	....	3D lighting artist/compositing
Michael Cashore	....	compositing supervisor
Sarah Cave	....	digital coordinator
Paola Chavez	....	DMR digital artist: IMAX
Jesse James Chisholm	....	on-set survey and data integration: Digital Domain
Jeremy Cho	....	roto/paint artist
Amy Christensen	....	lighting and compositing
Scott Seungpil Chung	....	effects artist: CIS Hollywood
Trent Claus	....	flame artist
Michael Clive	....	digital effects artist
Jonathan Cohen	....	digital artist: BUF
Chad E. Collier	....	scanning and recording operator: Digital Domain
Michael Conte	....	digital artist: ILM
Cameron Coombs	....	digital roto/paint artist: CafeFX
Bertrand Cordier	....	senior lighting technical director: SPI
Danielle Costa	....	visual effects coordinator
Christine Cram	....	digital paint artist
Craig Crawford	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
Sean C. Cunningham	....	visual effects animator
Rocky Curby	....	animator: Digital Domain
Rif Dagher	....	research & development
Mike Dalzell	....	lighting technical director
Brandon Davis	....	effects lead
Brian C. Davis	....	senior effects technical director: SPI
Denise Davis	....	visual effects producer
Nicolas Delval	....	visual effects coordinator
Laura Denicke	....	visual effects production manager: ILM
Sean Devereaux	....	visual effects compositor: Digital Domain
Edgar Díaz	....	roto/paint artist: Digital Domain
Gareth Dinneen	....	digital compositor
Ben Dishart	....	texture artist: CIS Hollywood
Dan Dixon	....	lead digital artist
Waylon Dobson	....	modeler: CIS Hollywood
Michael Dohne	....	compositor: Rising Sun Pictures
Hugo Dominguez	....	digital effects artist: Digital Domain
Bill Dorais	....	lighting artist
Christina Drahos	....	digital compositor: Evil Eye Pictures
Haarm-Pieter Duiker	....	CG supervisor
Olivier Dumont	....	visual effect supervisor: BUF Los Angeles
Minh Duong	....	modeler: SPI
Pierre Escande	....	visual effects coordinator
Thomas Esmeralda	....	senior matte painter: Digital Domain
Pascal Etangsale	....	visual effects: BUF
Steven Fagerquist	....	digital compositor
Aurelien Faure	....	visual effects
Craig Feifarek	....	lead production services technician: SPI
David Feinsilber	....	DPX wrangler
David Feinsilber	....	digital film wrangler
Jesse Fernley	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
Rhett Finch	....	visual effects assistant
Chris Flynn	....	digital compositor
Mathieu Foucher	....	digital artist: BUF
Frederic Fourier	....	digital artist: BUF
Reggie Fourmyle	....	CG artist: CIS Hollywood
Antonio Freire	....	production accountant
Mark Freund	....	visual effects supervisor: Pacific Title
Josh Fritchie	....	production coordinator: CIS Hollywood
Scott Fritzshall	....	visual effects data wrangler
Mathias Frodin	....	compositor: CIS Hollywood
James Gaczkowski	....	visual effects
John Gaeta	....	visual effects supervisor
Christopher Otto Gallagher	....	character pipeline: SPI
Vicki Galloway-Weimer	....	visual effects executive producer: Cafe FX (as Vicki Galloway Weimer)
Gian Ganziano	....	visual effects editor
Danny Garcia	....	digital effects artist
Julia Gaudette	....	visual effects production manager: CIS Hollywood
Frederick Gaudreau	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Thibault Gauriau	....	digital artist: BUF
Larry Gaynor	....	senior paint and roto: CIS Hollywood
Gillian George	....	visual effects
Muriel Gérard	....	visual effects coordinator: Germany
Paul Gimm	....	lighting technical director: Digital Domain
Mickael Girod	....	digital effects artist: BUF
Alex Gitler	....	digital compositor: CafeFX
Dan Glass	....	visual effects supervisor
Maribeth Glass	....	digital artist
Yoel Godo	....	digital effects artist: BUF
Lisa Goldberg	....	visual effects producer: Sony Imageworks
Juan S. Gomez	....	look development
Kyle Goodsell	....	digital compositor (Rising Sun Pictures)
Dylan Gottlieb	....	lighting & compositing technical director: SPI
Dylan Gottlieb	....	senior modeler: SPI
Dylan Gottlieb	....	senior texture painter: SPI
Jon Green	....	matte painter: Digital Domain
Daniel D. Gregoire	....	executive: Halon
Brian Gyss	....	lookdev technical director: Digital Domain
Alexa Hale	....	visual effects coordinator
Scott Hale	....	digital compositor: Evil Eye Pictures
Jerry Hall	....	digital compositor
Martin Hall	....	compositor: Digital Domain
Brian Hanable	....	digital effects compositor: Pacific Title
Steven Hansen	....	matte painting technical director: SPI
Stan R. Haptas	....	layout artist
Michael S. Harbour	....	compositor
Dave Hardin	....	senior character animator
Jim Cody Harrington	....	senior effects technical director
Deon Hayman	....	witness camera operator
Jon Heckman	....	lighting technical director
Alex Henning	....	compositor: Digital Domain
Brad Herman	....	simulation lead: Digital Domain
Nicole Herr	....	digital character animator: SPI
Nick Hiatt	....	matte painter
Craig Hilditch	....	digital compositor
Jesse Hildreth	....	lighter
Jesse Hildreth	....	look development
Jim Hillin	....	lighting/compositing/look development technical director: Digital Domain
Bryan Hirota	....	visual effects supervisor: CIS Hollywood
Glenn Holbrook	....	data wrangler
Ki Jong Hong	....	senior modeler
Bastian Hopfgarten	....	compositor
Bastian Hopfgarten	....	visual effects data wrangler
Beth Howe	....	visual effects coordinator
Josiah Holmes Howison	....	digital compositor
Lee Hoya	....	lighting technical director: Digital Domain
Lubo Hristov	....	environments art director
Jessica Hsieh	....	digital compositor: Evil Eye Pictures
Christina Hsu	....	simulation artist
Nickie Huai	....	lighting technical director: Digital Domain
George Hull	....	conceptual designer
William Hyler	....	flame artist
Chris Ingersoll	....	compositor: Flame artist
Aruna Inversin	....	digital compositor: Digital Domain
Erich Ippen	....	visual effects art director: ILM
Isaac Irvin	....	lighting artist
Travis Wade Ivy	....	digital compositor
John L. Jack	....	executive producer: Evil Eye Pictures
Mike Jamieson	....	digital artist: ILM
Jonathan Jamison	....	visual effects production assistant
Chas Jarrett	....	additional visual effects supervisor
Mike Jiang	....	lighting & compositing technical director
Amanda Johnstone	....	lighter: Digital Domain
Joseph Jones	....	animator
Shahen Jordan	....	digital matte painter
Thomas Jore	....	digital effects artist: BUF
Thomas Jore	....	visual effects: BUF
Mark Justison	....	roto/paint artist: CIS Hollywood
Kory Juul	....	digital compositor: Evil Eye Pictures
Brandon Kachel	....	matte painter: Cafe FX
Brad Kalinoski	....	digital compositor: Digital Domain
Jeffrey Kalmus	....	imaging artist
Apirak Kamjan	....	matchmover: CafeFX
Patrick Kavanaugh	....	digital effects supervisor: CIS Hollywood
John Kearns	....	digital quality control
Blaine Kennison	....	lighting and compositing technical director: SPI
Cheryl Kerr	....	visual effects producer: Evil Eye Pictures
Val Kharitonashvili	....	effects technical director: SPI
Sam Khorshid	....	visual effects
Danny S. Kim	....	visual effects
Michael Kimmel	....	senior character animator
Seunghyuk Kim	....	senior effects technical director
Daryl Klein	....	digital compositor: Digital Domain
Dorian Knapp	....	previs artist
John Knoll	....	visual effects supervisor: ILM
Philip Koch	....	senior visual effects artist
Gabriel Köerner	....	digital artist
Christian Korneck	....	data wrangler
Marios Kourasis	....	animator
Stephen Kowalski	....	senior systems architect
Anthony Kramer	....	digital compositor: CafeFX
George Krauter	....	digital artist
James Kuroda	....	digital compositor: Digital Domain
Benjamin Kutsko	....	flame artist
Joosten Kuypers	....	digital effects artist: Sony Imageworks
Frankie Kwak	....	assistant technical director: ILM