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."