The excellent martial arts site ‘Kung Fu Cinema‘ recently posted a rundown of the Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer followup, Ninja Assassin, which lays out in excruciating detail the slew of problems plaguing the production. Check it out:

Leaks include production pics (originally posted and then removed from Slash Film), a German newsprint photo of a Volkswagen’s hood decimated by shuriken and a complete spoilerific breakdown of the film’s first scene. There is also word from Comic Book Resources in an interview with screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski that the film’s entire shooting script was rewritten from scratch in three days and only six weeks before production began.

KFC also questions the casting of 80’s Ninja-flick superstar Sho Kosugi, but I have to side with the fans on that one - the mere prospect of seeing Mr. Kosugi on the big-screen again has me totally salivating, even if his role is a five-second cameo.