Someone woke up this morning and decided that their Bad Idea Jeans looked like a fantastic option, and that someone is not the racist version of the 50's, maybe someone racist in their 50's but that is not the same.
Everybody's favorite not even remotely funny comedian/talk show host George Lopez has signed on to voice Speedy Gonzales in the dreaded live-action/CG hybrid format. Luckily the writing team behind adapting the mouse for the screen, Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, are the same duo responsible for the Garfield films, so we can rest assured that a great screenplay will be written. *fart sound*
The character has often courted criticism that the ethnic characterizations of him and his compatriots (especially lazy cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez) are stereotypically racist and severely outdated.
Aware of this, New Line and the producers plan to update the brand with a modernized sensibility (it takes place in present day) under what Anne Lopez calls George's "Latino seal of approval." (No need to throw fuel on the fire that serves as an immigration debate in this country.)
"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the racist Speedy," Anne Lopez said with a chuckle. "Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's good at."
That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver. [via heat vision blog]
Get it? Because he's fast. That's why they call him Speedy. Or maybe he worked really hard on his speed so that he could live up to his given name. Either way a spot for some interesting backstory that I'm sure Sokolow and Cohen will wow us with.
If anyone knows can they please explain to me what exactly George's "Latino seal of approval" means. I'm guessing it has something to do with tacos or burritos.
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