Paul W.S. Anderson Goes On 'Deathrace 3000'

[Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005]
Paul W.S. Anderson (Alien vs. Predator)is to write and direct Paramount's Deathrace 3000, a remake of the cult Roger Corman movie Deathrace 2000, according to Variety.

The Paul Bartel-directed original is considered a B-movie classic, a campy and polemical black comedy that pitted David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a race where drivers accumulated points for running over pedestrians.

"The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant, and I want to restore that," Anderson said. "Set in 2020, ours is an ultraviolent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston Martins."

"Films I've written to direct have always been very quick transitions to production, and I expect this one to do the same," he said. " 'Deathrace' will kick ass."

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