A 15-year-old with a heart of gold enters a highly competitive racing school to become a race master. No, it’s not Ender’s Game, and it’s not Speed Racer 2. It’s Disney’s new movie Hover Car Racer , based on Mathew Reilly’s scifi teen novel. Indie writer/director John Sayles (Lone Star, The Spiderwick Chronicles) announced that he’d be adapting the scifi-lite novel at at a film festival. Our one plea to Sayles: Please let’s stop making tame future race movies. Either give us the full-on cute, kid-oriented Star Wars pod racing, or give us death on wheels.
