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Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Tyrese Gibson in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

A scene from Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Natalie Martinez in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Joan Allen in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Jason Statham, Ian McShane and Jacob Vargas in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Jacob Vargas, Ian McShane, Jason Statham and Natalie Martinez in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Jason Statham and Natalie Martinez in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

Jason Statham in Universal Pictures' Death Race - 2008

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Death Race
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced�by	Paul W. S. Anderson Jeremy Bolt Roger Corman Paula Wagner
Written�by	Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring	Jason Statham Joan Allen Tyrese Gibson Ian McShane Natalie Martinez
Music�by	Paul Haslinger
Distributed�by	Universal Pictures
Release Date(s)	August 22, 2008
Country	United States
Language	English
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Death Race is an action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film is a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000, based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer", and stars Jason Statham in the lead role. The remake had been in development since 2002, though production was delayed by disapproval of early screenplays then placed in turnaround following a dispute between Paramount Pictures and the producer duo Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. Death Race was acquired by Universal Studios, and Anderson re-joined the project to write and direct. Filming began in Montreal in August 2007, and the completed project was released on August�22, 2008.

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Plot

In a future United States of America, prison inmates compete against each other in a driving arena. The film begins by showing a Race near its end between two cars, a Dodge Ram and a Ford Mustang, both loaded with various guns and armor. The driver of the Mustang is a famous driver known as Frankenstein, who is accompanied by a woman navigator. The driver of the Dodge Ram fires various weapons at Frankenstein's car, damaging it horribly, and Frankenstein's defense weapons fail for unexplained reasons. Frankenstein drops a large piece of armor on the back of his car ("The Tombstone") and succeeds in brutally damaging the Dodge Ram attacker. However, Frankenstein's fuel tank is exposed as a result. He appears to win the race when his car explodes; his navigator is ejected from the car and survives but Frankenstein remains in the car.

At this point, title cards explain that the economy of the United States has fallen into disaster, and private corporations run most prisons across the nation for profit. The movie focuses on the Terminal Island Prison, where arena cage fights between prisoners fighting to the Death are televised to the world. After crowds became bored with the fighting, the prison adopted a new event for the entire world to see: death Race. Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) works at a steel mill that closes due to bankruptcy. Ames returns to his house to tell his wife, and as he is checking on his baby upstairs, an intruder breaks into his house and kills his wife. Ames returns to see his wife on the floor dead and is knocked out by the intruder, awakening later with a bloody knife in his hand and his wife's body next to him, framing him for her murder. Ames is sent to prison where he is coerced by the prison warden (Joan Allen) to become the new driver of the Ford Mustang. The warden tells Ames prisoners are freed when they have won five Death Races, but since he will "become" the legendary Frankenstein (who had 4 wins at the Time of his death) means Ames will only need to win one race. The races are broken apart into three stages: Stage 1 and 2 are races in which the driver must survive, and Stage 3 you must win the race in order for it to add to the count towards freedom.

During the Stage 1 Race, Ames is introduced to his navigator (who happens to be Frankenstein's previous navigator), and he realizes the man who killed his wife is a driver in the Death race. Ames finishes last after taking a hard hit from Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson). Ames learns he is part of a plot to keep the legend of Frankenstein alive, solely for the personal profit of the prison warden. He goes into The Stage 2 race and immediately questions his navigator on her intentions. She tells him she was ordered to sabotage Frankenstein's defense weapons so he would not win his freedom, and thereby earn her own. Ames realizes he is not meant to survive the death Race at all, but is meant to die so another "Frankenstein" can be brought into the prison to keep viewers paying to see the races. He seeks revenge during Stage 2 by killing the man who murdered his wife, and seeks to kill the prison warden. Ames' car is sabotaged before the Stage 3 Race with an explosive to kill him and prevent him from winning his freedom. Ames devises a plan from an image shown by one of his crew members of a destroyed billboard that left a pathway to a long bridge leading off the island to the mainland.

the Stage 3 Race begins with only two drivers remaining: "Frankenstein" and Machine Gun Joe. Before the race, Ames adds an extra half-gallon fuel tank to his car, and has a conversation with Joe regarding their escape plan. Ames has had the locks taken off his weapons, leaving him defenseless. As Ames is being viciously attacked by Joe (in a scene similar to Frankenstein's Death), he ejects the "Tombstone" armor but misses his target, just as Joe expected him to do. At the beginning of the second lap, Joe fires an inaccurate RPG at a container, revealing the broken billboard path shown to Ames earlier. Ames and Joe drive out onto the bridge to escape the island. In order to prevent their escape, the prison warden mobilizes helicopters and police cruisers to apprehend the two escapees. As the police are closing in on the two cars, Ames releases his exposed fuel tank, causing it to explode and it destroys the pursuing Cars. The prison warden orders the helicopters to focus on Ames, but he switches seats with his navigator and jumps from the car leading the helicopters to believe he is still inside. Joe meets Ames and they board a train to escape. Ames' Mustang is stopped and his navigator is apprehended. The bomb discovered when Ames was adding the half gallon fuel tank is sent as a gift to the warden as a token of her victory She thinks she has obtained. When she opens the gift, one of Ames' crew members pushes the detonator and in the prison warden's room explodes. Ames and Joe begin working in a junkyard in Mexico, and Ames was able to bring his baby with him to live a life of secrecy and freedom. Ames' navigator meets him at the junkyard, as her release papers were signed for her participation in the staged murder of the original Frankenstein.

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Cast

• Jason Statham as Jensen Ames / Frankenstein:^[1]A prisoner coerced to drive in the arena, becoming famously known as Frankenstein.^[2]
• Tyrese Gibson as "Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo: A sociopathic racer who looks to escape from prison.^[2]
• Joan Allen as Hennessey: The prison warden.^[2]
• Ian McShane as Coach.^[2]
• Natalie Martinez as Case: Frankenstein's navigator.^[3]

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Production

In March 2002, director Paul W.S. Anderson revealed that he was directing a remake of Death Race 2000 (1975) entitled Death Race 3000 at Paramount Pictures based on a script by J. F. Lawton. The remake would be produced by the producer pair Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. Anderson described the remake as a riff on the first film. "It's not a straight remake at all. The first movie was an across-America Race. This will be an around-the-world race. And it's set further in the future, so the cars are even more futuristic. So you've got cars with rockets, machine guns, force fields; Cars that can split apart and re-form, a bit like Transformers. Cars that become invisible," the director explained. Two years later, Roger Corman, the producer of Death Race 2000, elaborated that he had an option agreement with producer Tom Cruise, and that Cruise would portray the lead role. The director said that Cruise had not been happy with the first two screenplays and that a third one was underway. In June 2006, producer Jeremy Bolt reported that Anderson would direct the remake of Death Race 2000 after completing Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). The producer described the remake's new tone: "We've basically taken the idea of reality television and extended it twenty years. So it's definitely a comment on society, and particularly reality television, but it is not as much a parody or a satire as the original. It's more straight. The following August, Paramount ended its relationship with Cruise/Wagner Productions, and Death Race was placed in turnaround. According to reports, when the project was discovered available, Universal Studios acquired it. Cruise and Wagner resumed their roles as producers, and Anderson returned to write and direct the film.

In April 2007, actor Jason Statham entered negotiations to star in Death Race, with production slated to begin in late summer or early fall.
Anderson described that Death Race would take place in a prison, and that the film would be "super-violent" like its predecessor. "It has little echoes of the original – a lot of people get run down, but rather than having the points system, which had no pay off anyway, it’s a pure Race. It’s more like Gladiator, with the last person standing – or driving, winning," explained the director.^[8] Filming on Death Race began in Montreal in August 2007.

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Release

The film was originally scheduled for release on September 26, 2008, but has been moved up to August 22.

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Music

The score to Death Race was composed by Paul Haslinger who recorded the string portion of his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released on August 19th, 2008.

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