While promoting the upcoming movie Vantage Point at the film's recent press junket, Matthew Fox wasn't about to get through the day without fielding a number of questions about his upcoming role in Speed Racer. Although Fox was there to riff on Vantage Point, he did dish some dirt and share a few thoughts on working on Speed Racer with the Wachowski Brothers, what he's seen of the early footage, and the differences between the animated hit and the film.

From what Fox had to say, it's looking like Speed Racer will be a lot different on so many tech-levels like The Matrix, but still the same in all the right places...

Matthew Fox on the experience of making Speed Racer:

"I can tell you I’m incredibly excited about Speed Racer. It was three and a half months in Berlin working with the Wachowskis and a cast that was like a family, because we’re playing a family. It was an extraordinary experience for me and I really loved it. The movie is going to be fantastic."

Fox on what the film looks like from his perspective:

"I just did an ADR on it yesterday, so I saw a bunch and Larry and Andy actually showed me twenty five minutes of the movie as we were in Berlin. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. It’s so new and different and beautiful - it’s just cool."

On the Wachowski Brothers:

"They’re very quiet, but very hyper-intelligent and really love what they’re doing. I just love them, really good people."

Fox on the original animated Speed Racer:

"They loved the original source material. They grew up on it and they were huge fans, so there will be much homage paid to that. I mean there will be many things that will be in the movie, but then they also creating an entire new world that only exists in the world of Speed Racer. It’s unbelievable what it’s going to look like and how it’s going to transition, and how it’s edited. I mean, traditional editing is pretty much completely blown away here, it’s a whole new movement."

Matthew Fox on the live action film:

"It’s going to be very funny and certainly my character, Racer X, is the darkness of mystery, he’s this masked crusader. I just had so much fun with it, it’s awesome. My little boy literally asks me every day when this movie is coming out. He’s six and I showed him the trailer and he asked me to play it over and over again until I just said I wouldn’t play it anymore. He’d have me play it fifty times. He came to the set in Berlin and saw me in the Racer X [wardrobe] and I walked up to him and he turned to my wife and said, ‘I want to be Racer X at Halloween next year.’"