J.J. Abrams Is Reportedly Working on a Live-Action Speed Racer Series
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Pace Racer is reportedly acquiring a reside-action sequence at Apple with J.J. Abrams’s Terrible Robot connected as executive producer, in accordance to The Hollywood Reporter. The scripted collection will reportedly be co-written by Hiram Martinez who has worked on the Tv series Snowpiercer. He would also act as showrunner.
Apple, Poor Robotic, and Warner Bros. are claimed to have been amazed with Martinez’s “exciting take” on the unique. The other co-writer and showrunner is reportedly Ron Fitzgerald, who works with Abrams on Westworld.
In accordance to The Hollywood Reporter, the series has been in talks for a long time and “stems from Abrams and Lousy Robot’s over-all offer with Warner Bros. Tv set.” The series located its way to Apple a even though back again but the progress has been “excruciatingly slow.” In 2019, Abrams signed a $250 million 5-12 months deal with WarnerMedia which has led to some of his much more latest tasks.
Speed Racer, initially a manga and animated series, has experienced quite a few iterations in both equally game titles and movies. It initially began as a manga and inevitably turned a strike anime in the 1960s. The 2008 are living-action film of Pace Racer was directed by The Wachowskis but ended up shedding cash for Warner Bros. Photos.
As section of Abrams’ offer with Warner Bros., he’s experienced pretty a handful of jobs in the pipeline. Previous 12 months, it was verified that a film adaptation of the strike recreation Portal was nevertheless in the is effective. Just final month, it was announced Abrams would be helming the stay-action film Warm Wheels dependent on everyone’s beloved toy autos.
If you are hunting for even a lot more Abrams information, be certain to look at out the hottest on the debut of the new year of Westworld, the place he serves as govt producer.
Casey is a freelance author for IGN. You can usually obtain him speaking about JRPGs on Twitter at @caseydavidmt.
