Christina Ricci gears up for “Speed Racer”:
Christina Ricci is joining Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski’s live-action adaptation of the 1960s cartoon Speed Racer.Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman already have boarded the high-octane Warner Bros. project, which is based on the anime series created by Tatsuo Yoshida for Japanese audiences and later imported to the U.S.