Death Race

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Death Race

Man In Black · Anime Mod

I believe that correct Internet response these days is

"LOL @Statham"....

I'll give him his due that he's always busy but really...

Mollison · 500 Club Member

He's a fellow Sydenham chap so I'm biased but I always quite like his performances.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Trailer:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/death-race/red-band-trailer

NymVette · Movie Producer

I think I have seen the original of this, didn't it have a fair bit of nudity, sex and violence?

Wonder if this will be the same?

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Probably not, that was back in the day when things were good and it wasn't so PC. Although word on the grapevine says it has some of the above. Just not lashings of it...

That trailer also gives the entire plot away too. Including who lives and who dies.. How stupid. It was also very reminscient of Stone Colds The Condemned as well in the trailer style.

Still gonna be worth a watch, just for the sheer dumbness of it all.

-- Edited by Darth Mattitude at 21:16, 2008-08-17

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Could a sequel be forthcoming already? Filmstalker:

Speaking over at Latino Review through Coming Soon Paul W.S. Anderson had this to say when asked about making Spy Hunter and if Death Race was good preparation for the car heavy film:

'...I don't know if I'll ever do another car movie after this, because I really feel like we pushed it to the max and the only other car movie I'll do is maybe a sequel to this, knock on wood, if this movie does well enough to deserve that, I really think we've kind of raised the bar when it comes to car action.we've done everything practical, we've done spectacular stunts, we've kept it R rated, really hard, we've had the actors do a lot of their own driving, so you know, I think we've really maxed our car movie, so I think we've laid down a challenge to any one else, I think we're now the movie to beat.'

Reading that you wouldn't be forgiven for thinking that he's not doing Spy Hunter, and really I wouldn't bother. After seeing some of the spectacular action in Death Race, especially that big tanker crash to rival the one in The Dark Knight I would be thinking that it would be more of the same for me.

Plus he has Man with the Football announced, the film that shows a terrorist attack intent on collecting the President's nuclear football, the suitcase that contains the codes and equipment that would allow a nuclear attack to be initiated, and Castlevania, another weak plotted videogame.

The strongest comments in there though are that he wants to do the Death Race sequel, and if it does well he probably will, after all Resident Evil did well enough to see a couple of sequels, why not Death Race?

If you remember back he also spoke about how this is not a remake but a look back to see how the original race began, so there is scope to develop it into the bigger, open country race that the original film showed, rather than the enclosed Running Man type race we see today.

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

Guess what film just officially became the Spotlight On for September on CPC Movies....

Mollison · 500 Club Member

This film really reminds me of a racing game I used to play called POD.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Oh dear, another movie lawsuit according to Filmstalker:

In the entertainment business court cases are all too common, make something popular and people will come out from the woodwork claiming they created it days, weeks or months before, anything to get them noticed or to try and make money. However there are legitimate cases too, let's not taint all such cases with the same cynical brush.

So hot on the heels of the threat of Watchmen being delayed while a court case of rights rages, it seems that Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race may be hitting the same fate.

Adam Stone is a writer who is claiming that he pitched his script for a film called Joust to Paul W.S. Anderson and the producer Jeremy Bolt, after which they made a copy of it, returned it with a no thank you, and then made Death Race from it.

Death Race is most known to be connected with the 1975 film Death Race 2000, however the two are very different in terms of actual story line. Death Race could be taken as being many years before Death Race 2000, the race that is public, across America, kills innocents for points, and is televised as a huge event. Death Race is a small prison race and could be seen as the start of the Death Race scenario.

Stone claims, according to The Hollywood Reporter through Bloody Disgusting, that Death Race has been copied from his script and that he can prove it with at least thirty nine elements which mirror his screenplay.

Now the question really is what are those elements, if they are things like they race cars, they kill people in their cars and so on, well it's easy to show that both ideas could have come from the original Death Race 2000 story.

I also wonder how he knows if they copied his script, how do you tell that? Is it some investigative CSI type test, or did he see it happen? Perhaps that is meant figuratively hence the law suit. We're really not sure at this moment.

However what is sure is that Stone wants to stop the release of the film, indeed that's exactly what he's asking the courts to do. Oh, and he's after unspecified damages too, that means cash.

Honestly it's really hard to take these cases seriously when they happen so often, but then some of them actually do win and are shown as true, could this be one? Is it right that they should be able to stop the release before a case is heard?

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

A bit late as this has just been released in the states...

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Hey be fair - the guy had to see it first to know if it ripped off his story or not....

Man In Black · Anime Mod

Moved here as this is released this week.

Please feel free to post your views if you venture out to see it.