Back in 2008, the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer was greeted with mixed-to-negative reviews from critics. For all intents and purposes, the film was seen as a bomb. Though, to be fair, it did release in the same year that Iron Man came out. In the nearly two decades since its release,  Speed   Racer garnered a cult classic reputation among diehards as both the  greatest racing movie about the film industry and the greatest live-action anime adaptation of all time. Thanks to Warner Bros.’ recent 4K theatrical rerelease , audiences who slept on it or are seeing it for the first time have turned a hot take into the widely held belief that Speed Racer was a criminally overlooked masterpiece . To celebrate the imminent 4K digital release of Speed Racer (and take a well-earned victory lap over the movie finally getting its flowers ), io9 spoke with star Emile Hirsch about witnessing the movie’s resurgence as a cult classic ahead of its time.…