Death Race 2007?
From hollywoodreporter.com
Another cult classic remake is in production?Roger Corman?s 1975 cult film Death Race 2000 is in the works to be remade by Universal Pictures. Topin? the line as their star player is, Jason Statham (Snatch, the italian Job). According to Hollywood Reporter. Paul W.S. Anderson is writing the script and directing the futuristic actioner, which is being produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner via their C/W Prods. as well as Anderson and his Impact Pictures partner Jeremy Bolt.
Hollywood Reporter continues to say, the original film was released in 1975 as Death Race 2000 and starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, the movie told of a dystopian future America in which the president presides over an ultraviolent road race from New York to Los Angeles. One of the ways that drivers score points is by mowing down innocent bystanders using their heavily armed cars.
Race originally was set up at Paramount as a Cruise vehicle. The project was among those put into turnaround after the Sumner Redstone-Cruise imbroglio. Sources said that when it heard Race was free, Universal, spearheaded by David Linde, moved quickly to secure it.
Roger Corman is exec producing. Scott Bernstein is overseeing for Universal.
A late summer/early fall start is being eyed.
Anderson, repped by UTA and Ken Kamins, has made his name making movies in the sci-fi mold. He most recently directed AVP: Alien vs. Predator and counts Resident Evil and Soldier among his credits. Impact is producing the upcoming adaptation of Castlevania for Rogue/Crystal Sky.
Statham, repped by CAA, most recently starred in the action movie Crank.
