It’s Wednesday. A very creative individual decided to dress-up an ordinary hole in a fence with some very creative artwork. Now add a dog that likes to put his head through the hole and it all comes together. It’s both imaginative and downright funny.
I ran across this collection the other day and was so impressed that I couldn’t resist sharing them with all of you today. Enjoy!
-keep
It’s Tuesday. With all the major automakers pivoting to hybrids or fully electric models, it appears that electric vehicles are the future. And now that pickup trucks are outselling passenger cars, it only makes sense to develop electric powered pickups. One of my readers, Steve, caught this 2022 GMC Hummer EV in Santa Cruz, California, at a local car show. This is a treat because you don’t see many of these out in the wild yet. I saw another rare pickup last week. It’s was a R1T Pickup made by Rivian right here in Illinois. Electric pickups are here and the future looks cool!
-keep
Keep, This beauty showed up at our local C & C Brand new Hummer EV. If you can find one it will run you around $150K . He has been offered more than that to resell it 1,000 HP and will go 150 mph. Big toy for the rich and or famous. -Steve G, Santa Cruz CA
Live Action Speed Racer
-keep
A live-action scripted TV series based on the beloved manga and animated show is in the works at Apple, with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot set to exec produce the project.
Sources say Hiram Martinez (Snowpiercer, Get Shorty) is set to co-write the project and serve as showrunner as his “exciting take” on the source material is said to have impressed Apple, Bad Robot and Warners. Ron Fitzgerald (who works with Abrams on HBO’s Westworld), is the other co-writer and showrunner. Abrams and his Bad Robot banner are set to exec produce.
Sources say the live-action TV series has been in the works for years and stems from Abrams and Bad Robot’s overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. The show landed at Apple some time ago and has been in the process of meeting and hiring its co-writers in recent months as sources note the development process has been excruciatingly slow.
Speed Racer, created by Tatsuo Yoshida, was adapted in the 1960s as a beloved anime series that ran for more than 50 episodes. An English remake, Speed Racer X, was produced for Nickelodeon in 2002 but a licensing debate stunted its run. The Wachowskis adapted the title as a live-action feature film in 2008. That movie, starring Emile Hirsch, stalled at the box office and wound up losing money for producers Warner Bros. Pictures.
As of December 2013 the worldwide rights to the beloved title about a professional racer revered back to Tatsunoko Production following a string of lawsuits. Tatsunoko is believed to have blessed Apple’s Speed Racer take. (Apple, Warners and Bad Robot declined comment.)
Speed Racer is among the scores of projects that Abrams has in the works as part of his $250 million overall deal with Warners. He’s also readying Presumed Innocent for Apple, which was the home of Lisey’s Story and Little Voice, both of which also hailed from the studio he has called home for the past 15 years.
Abrams is currently prepping another Star Trek movie for Paramount as his deal with Warners allows him to work on features for other studios.