HOT WHEELS Live-Action Movie Finds Its Writers As Warner Bros. Revs Up Work On The Project

HOT WHEELS Live-Action Movie Finds Its Writers As Warner Bros. Revs Up Work On The Project

Warner Bros. is revving up its engines to resume work on the long-rumoured Hot Wheels live-action adaptation, and a pair of writers have now been found for the project. Find out more details here...

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By JoshWilding - Sep 26, 2020 04:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Warner Bros. is once again focusing on bringing the Mattel's Hot Wheels franchise to the big screen. The screenwriting team of Neil Widener and Gavin James have been hired to pen the screenplay for what is confirmed to be a live-action take on the property. 

They managed to land the job after the studio asked a number of writers to come up with a treatment; interestingly, sources say they managed to beat a number of more established writers. 

Widener and James don't actually have any produced credits at this stage of their career, but they've generated a lot of attention after being hired to work on the San Andreas sequel and Now You See Me 3. They're also in the process of developing a new take on Romeo and Juliet titled Verona. 

It was way back in January 2019 that Warner Bros. teamed with Mattel to bring the Hot Wheels franchise to the big screen, and a project featuring the iconic toy property has been talked about for close to twenty years! With any luck, this one will actually stick, though there's no word on the approach Warner Bros. is taking (it could be Speed Racer or Need for Speed; we don't know).

Are you excited for Hot Wheels?

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KWilly
KWilly - 9/26/2020, 4:41 AM
I'm just wondering, will they go the Speed Racer route where it's just a live action cartoon? Or F&F, where it's a slightly realistic live action cartoon?
Shroombeast
Shroombeast - 9/26/2020, 4:42 AM
Oh hey, more artistically void multimillion dollar product placement.
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 9/26/2020, 4:46 AM
I wonder if any kid ever looked at their hot wheels and thought, "I can't wait to see these in live action."

I mean, the answer is no. I don't actually wonder.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/26/2020, 5:47 AM
@LiteraryJoe - I've been on long road trips where I've wished for massive loops and giant dinosaurs and shark traps.
Manmarvel
Manmarvel - 9/26/2020, 6:37 PM
@LiteraryJoe - You should actually look up the real life Hot Wheels cars that Mattel has ponied up the money to make. This is also the third year running that Hot Wheels has a cross the country car shows to find a real life car to be made into a 1/16 mainline Hot Wheels car. So clearly adults look at their car builds and have thought "I can't wait to see this on an orange toy track"
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 9/27/2020, 3:43 AM
@Manmarvel - I mean, it was a joke. No matter what you think of, someone enjoys it.

The thing is that it is a subculture, just like car shows have always been. It isn't mainstream, which is precisely what movies need to be right now in order to find any success.

It's odd to me that someone made the business decision to pull the trigger on this thing, this thing that no one under fifteen has in their toybox anymore.
HeeroG
HeeroG - 9/26/2020, 5:47 AM
Just rename on of the latest Fast and Furious movies and you have your Hot Wheels Live-action...
kazuma
kazuma - 9/26/2020, 5:54 AM
So Speed Racer?
Kumkani
Kumkani - 9/26/2020, 6:27 AM
The only way I can see this working is if it's as meta as The Lego Movie.
patgreyc
patgreyc - 9/26/2020, 6:27 AM
Let’s make a movie about a toy that doesn’t have a storyline associated with it. Genius! This is a prime example of what my friends and I call executive logic.
tylerzero
tylerzero - 9/26/2020, 6:44 AM
@patgreyc - In all fairness, that's exactly what I thought when they announced the Lego Movie. Of course, at least Lego has figures that could be turned into relatable characters--the same cannot be said for a toyline based entirely of vehicles.
Manmarvel
Manmarvel - 9/26/2020, 6:40 PM
@patgreyc - they have had at least one comic book series and a hand full of animated series.
koolaidbag
koolaidbag - 9/26/2020, 6:43 AM
Just adapt hot wheels: acceleracers and you’ve got a fun time at the movies with quirky characters, cool villains and a racing movie that would be far set apart from the rest and more similar aesthetically to the Tron movies then a bland racing movie....It’s actually painful how easy that is yet I bet they go generic as hell with a brand new story.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/26/2020, 7:32 AM
I want this to be like the Speed Racer, which is secretly still one of my favorite movies
sadham
sadham - 9/26/2020, 7:59 AM
We already had a great Hot Wheels movie:
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/26/2020, 8:46 AM
I guess there are two groups of people on this: Those that think about the cars, and those that think about the tracks.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 9/26/2020, 9:47 AM
@Reeds2Much - As long as that track is orange.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 9/26/2020, 9:47 AM
Ah man, they have to stay accurate to the material (plastic/metal)... yadda, yadda....
thejon93rd
thejon93rd - 9/26/2020, 12:05 PM
This sounds so extraordinarily stupid that I'm all for it. If Hollywood wants to burn money on this nonsense, I can't wait to watch the fireworks. Imagine being an actor and your agent sends you the script to "Hot Wheels: The Movie".

BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 9/26/2020, 12:57 PM
@thejon93rd - Come on, this could work with the Stanislavski method of acting:

Imagine you're a small metal car...
RolandD
RolandD - 9/27/2020, 8:31 AM
@thejon93rd - Shia Lebouf, Megan Fox, Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Turturro, Hailee Steinfeld, Mark Wahlburg and John Cena all say, "Hello." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
RolandD
RolandD - 9/27/2020, 8:33 AM
@thejon93rd - Seriously though, I get what you mean. None of my hard-earned dollars ever went toward seeing any Transformers movie, nor do I expect they ever well. Same goes for Hot Wheels unless it turns out to be some extraordinary piece of filmmaking, like that'll ever happen.
RolandD
RolandD - 9/27/2020, 8:27 AM
Who needs it. We already had this. LOL
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