WTF Happened to SPEED RACER (2008)?

After THE MATRIX trilogy (when it was still a trilogy), the Wachowskis could make pretty much anything. And what they chose was a big-screen live-action adaptation of the cult 1960s anime show SPEED RACER. The directors would continue pushing the boundaries of digital technology with dizzying races, eyeball-bursting colors and unconventional creative decisions, but the costly effort failed to resonate with critics or moviegoers, and crashed and burned at the box office. Rev up your engine and...

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Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions and actors/actresses that were "hot" one minute and gone the next. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, many films had such behind the scenes issues that we will discuss in our shows. We'll also delve into the lives of some Hollywood folk who seemed to have disappeared after striking it big at first. Either way, we have to ask: WTF Happened To....?!