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Death Race
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6.3Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
Cast
- Jason Statham as Jensen Ames
- Joan Allen as Warden Hennessey
- Ian McShane as Coach
- Tyrese Gibson as Machine Gun Joe Mason
- Natalie Martinez as Elizabeth Case
- Max Ryan as Pachenko
Themes
- prison
- martial arts
- car race
- dystopia
- matter of life and death
- car crash
- prison guard
- prison escape
- exploding building
- vehicle combat
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Written by
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Based on
- Death Race 2000 , by Robert Thom , Charles B. Griffith "The Racer", by Ib Melchior
- Produced by
- Paula Wagner Jeremy Bolt Paul W. S. Anderson
- Starring
- Jason Statham Tyrese Gibson Ian McShane Joan Allen
- Cinematography
- Scott Kevan
- Edited by
- Niven Howie
- Music by
- Paul Haslinger
- Production companies
- Relativity Media Impact Pictures C/W Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- August 22, 2008 ( 2008-08-22 ) (United States) September 26, 2008 ( 2008-09-26 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 105 minutes (theatrical) 110 minutes (extended)
- Countries
- United States United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $45 million
- Box office
- $76 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 127500
- Official website
- www.deathracemovie.net
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- Commons category
- Death Race
- publication date
- 2008-11-27
- title
- Death Race
- review score
- 41%
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Death Race is a 2008 dystopian science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, who produced the film alongside Paula Wagner and Jeremy Bolt. Produced by Relativity Media, Impact Pictures, and C/W Productions, it stars Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Joan Allen. The film follows Jensen Ames, a factory worker framed for a murder he didn't commit, who is coerced into the Death Race, a three-day racing competition at Terminal Island Penitentiary, in an attempt to win his freedom.
Though referred to as a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000 (which in turn is based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer") in reviews and marketing materials, Anderson stated in the DVD commentary that he thought of the film as something of a prequel. A Death Race 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 Wagner (the latter of whom produced without Cruise in the film). Death Race was acquired by Universal Pictures, and Anderson re-joined the project to write and direct. Filming began in Montreal in August 2007.