This is just a bad idea

Evidently I've been out of the bad-cartoon-turned-into-bad-action-movie loop, because the Wachowski brothers, responsible for the great Matrix and the terrible Matrix Sequels have evidently signed on to make a Speedracer movie.

For anyone not familiar with Speedracer, it's a really terribly animated Japanese show that was poorly dubbed and played ad-nauseum throughout the 80s. I'm not saying its a bad show, but it is what it is. And now apparently its to be a full length movie. Made by the Wachowski brothers...

Apparently now, High School Musical star Zac Efron is in talks to star as Speed in the Wachowski Brothers' adaptation.

I really think the success of Matrix must have given them some kind of stroke that made it impossible to differentiate a good idea from a bad one.