Natalie Martinez is negotiations to star as the romantic lead opposite Jason Statham in "
Death Race," Universal Pictures' remake of the Roger Corman cult classic being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
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Death Race" sees a future America in which prison inmates are forced to brutally compete in an enclosed arena. Statham is starring as a prisoner who, with only weeks to go before his release, is coerced into being a driver in a road rally to the death and becomes a crowd favorite called Frankenstein.