Though Velocity Racer was a box-office failure upon its launch over 15 years in the past, the movie has grown a passionate cult following, with some even calling it an underrated masterpiece. With its kaleidoscope explosion of colors, Velocity Racer is simply begging for a launch on 4K Extremely HD, however co-director Lilly Wachowski informed Collider that it doesn’t appear to be within the playing cards.
“The ‘Velocity Racer’ fanbase is so rabid that they’re consistently at-ing me on social media and so I really seemed into whether or not or not Warner Bros. had plans to launch ‘Velocity Racer’ in 4K,” she stated, “and that was a couple of years in the past, and so they don’t see the fan base that’s on the market for one thing like that, which is unlucky. And Warner Bros. can also be…who is aware of what’s happening there. You gotta get on the head of the corporate.“
Velocity Racer was shot digitally within the early days of digital filmmaking, so a real 4K remaster might be out of the query. Nonetheless, the movie could be unbelievable with HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. The movie was included in a Warner Bros. survey final yr asking which titles followers would need to be launched in 4K. A handful of titles from that listing, together with Deadly Weapon, Se7en, Constantine, Amadeus, and Barry Lyndon, have since acquired 4K releases (or will quickly), so that you’ve received to suppose that the studio will probably be attending to Velocity Racer in some unspecified time in the future.
Primarily based on the manga collection of the identical title created by Tatsuo Yoshida, Velocity Racer starred Emilie Hirsch as a younger racing prodigy who follows within the footsteps of his apparently deceased brother by racing for his household and their firm, Racer Motors. However after he turns down a contract from the proprietor of Royalton Industries, all hell breaks free on the racetrack.
Hirsch has been a longtime champion of the movie, even expressing confusion when the preliminary opinions had been combined, however he now feels that the movie is lastly being appreciated. “When it got here out, it was unanimously dogged,” he stated. “I keep in mind we had been all like, ‘Man, this film is so good. How come no one will get it?’ That was type of our perspective. However then we had been additionally like, ‘Are we the loopy ones?’ As a result of it’s the general public and the critics…So it’s actually validating to have everyone come round all these years later.“
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