Is 2008’s Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch in the title role, pictured) in need of reassessment?
JACOB HEAYES @HEYIMJAY_COB
Summer 2008 saw two tentpole adaptations go head to head: Iron Man and Speed Racer, both of which unexpectedly shaped today’s cinematic landscape. Releasing a week after the MCU’s debut certainly didn’t do Speed Racer any favours; nevertheless, it’s the latter film that has arguably prevailed as the more prescient of the two.