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== Film ==
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Ben Myles of ''[[Coupling]]'' fame as a sportscaster, and Richard Roundtree as old Ben Burns.
** The original English voice actor for Speed and Racer X plays the Race Announcer.
** [[Lost (TV)|Jack Shepard]] as Racer X, he even has the eye tears going at one point.
** Trixie is [[The Addams Family (TV)|Wednesday Addams]].
** Susan Sarandon and John Goodman. No description needed.
** Rain...however, no one is sure if his status in Japan helped this movie.
* [[Star-Derailing Role]]: This film basically hurt Emile Hirsch's future in Hollywood (especially after receiving much acclaim for his previous role in ''[[Into the Wild]]''), along with Christina Ricci's career. The two have more or less disappeared into smaller projects (in Ricci's case) or gone into smaller roles (in Hirsch's case).
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Some of the people who were to work on the movie at certain points in the long, ''[[Development Hell|long]]'' pre-production stage: [[Henry Rollins]] and [[Vince Vaughn]] were both cast as Racer X. [[Johnny Depp]] was hired to play Speed himself. [[Gus Van Sant]] and [[Alfonso Cuaron]] were both attached to direct. [[JJJ.J. Abrams]] was hired at one point to write the script.
** Joel Silver said that the Wachowskis wanted to do the sequel in [[3D Movie|3D]]. Alas, [[Franchise Killer|the film didn't make enough money to justify a sequel]].
* The actors who play Rex Racer and Racer X (Scott Porter and Matthew Fox, respectively) have the same birthday.
 
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