Their first movie since THE MATRIX, the Wachowski Brothers supercharge a cartoon icon soon to be released May 9th 2008.

Entertainment Weekly has released a bunch of new images from SPEED RACER. They’re intersperced with some stills we’ve already seen. The images include automotive hijinks, and some shots of characters in action and inaction.

Speed Racer was invented in the 1960’s by a Japanese comic book artist named Tatsuo Yoshida, who named his manga and TV show Mach Go Go Go. An American TV syndicator bought the rights, Go was renamed Speed, and the re-dubbed series debuted stateside in September of 1967, spending nearly two decades in re-runs.

[Source : EW.com]