When can I do the movie? When do we start?' … And the finished product was all the more impressive because you get to see the interiors of these things, and they're all, as Paul describes them, wreck tech. It was like, 'F-k, I've never seen anything like it. It's the ultimate car, you know what I mean? Nitrous oxide injection, superchargers, it's like everything that you could ever imagine these cars had. And I was like, 'F-k! These look unbelievable.' Cars with guns and ejectors seats and napalm and smoke and oil slicks. "He presented me with a drawing of the concept Mustang, Porsche, and the XJS. "I first saw a drawing that Paul gave to me, in the first meeting that we had," recalls Statham, who by the way is the lucky pilot of the film's Mustang. We've already been guaranteed the requisite ejector-seat gag that will see one racer hit the roof, so to speak. So expect a variety of original death-defying (or not so defying, as the case may be) stunts to take place in that setting, which is littered with wrecked cars from past races. As Bolt mentioned, part of the race takes place indoors. And purists will be happy to hear that everything was shot for the film practically, which is to say that there will be no CG cars. The cars were supplied by Chrysler and Ford, with "one or two million" dollars in vehicles present for the shoot. Certainly most of these vehicles will not survive to see the credits roll, though they're all bound to go out in their own explosive blaze of glory at the very least. And there are the finer touches, too, as with the Dodge Ram which features a ram skull for a hood ornament, or the rig with the altered backseat for easy gunning action. Jason+Statham+and+his+Mustang+GT Of course, all of these vehicles were modified and tricked out for the film, including mounted machine guns, protective plate steel, and the such. Here's a sampling of what you can expect: 2005 Ford Mustang GT 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 1987 Porsche 911 1991 Jaguar XJS 2006 Chrysler 300c 1972 Boattail Riviera 1978 Trans-Am 1992 735 BMW But the most important aspect of the film for IGN Cars readers is no doubt the vehicles themselves at the center of the titular race. And certainly the location we're visiting this day fits the bill, complete as it is with vacant industrial buildings and desolate landscape as far as the eye can see. There characters like Statham's (who may or may not be Frankenstein, we're told) vie for the chance to win their freedom by becoming the champion of the deadly race. Running+the+Terminal+Island+circuit The idea is that the race occurs in some kind of totalitarian near-future, on the grounds of a prison on the ominously named Terminal Island. … It will make the film feel much fresher."
DEATH RACE 2000 FRANKENSTEIN CAR MOVIE
"Paul reconceived the movie on the spot as a race that will take place within industrial buildings in an old factory. YES NO "I asked the location scout to show us anything big, and he brought us here," recalls producer Jeremy Bolt of the film's racetrack origins. That's a divergence from the original film, which featured a cross-country, if equally homicidal, race. The film, which stars Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Joan Allen, is about a deadly NASCAR-type event gone horribly wrong, where the winner lives and the losers die - if they're lucky. Machine+gun+action A Death Race remake has been rumored for years, but it wasn't until Anderson came around that the project became a reality. Wouldn't it have been so awesome if Carradine had in fact been present, shepherding his Death Race legacy as it were? But at the same time, there's a hint of disappointment in our collective sigh. When the crewmember with the grey hair and the unglamorous job finally turns so that we can see his face, we breathe a sigh of relief. Of course, it would be quite tragic if the grey- and straggly-haired, hunched-over figure carefully wiping the glass on this hotrod was in fact Carradine, seeing as much as that actor actually starred as the racer called Frankenstein in the original Paul Bartel cult-classic Death Race 2000, on which Anderson's film is based.
Is it actually Carradine, the assembled press wonders while we stroll through the outdoor set of Paul W.S. The guy cleaning Frankenstein's windshield looks an awful lot like David Carradine.
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