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Keen to chuck its entire back catalogue at the big screen, Mattel has JJ Abrams working on a deadly earnest drama inspired by tiny cars. Can someone find the brakes?
JJ Abrams told the New Yorker: “For a long time, we were talking to Mattel about Hot Wheels, and we couldn’t quite find the thing that clicked, that made it worthy of what Hot Wheels – that title – deserved … Then we came up with something emotional and grounded and gritty.”
I hope I’m not jumping the gun too much when I say: oh God, someone’s overthought this. Hot Wheels doesn’t need to be emotional and gritty. There isn’t some dark and layered mythology to Hot Wheels that deserves our serious attention. Hot Wheels doesn’t have a canon that fans demand an adherence to. Hot Wheels is some little cars in a box that sometimes do loop-the-loops if you buy the right kind of track. Look at any Hot Wheels advert that has ever been made. It isn’t dark and emotional and gritty. It’s a bunch of explosion noises and some little cars going fast and a guy going “HOT WHEELS!” and some kids looking completely boggle-eyed…
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